Archive - Robin Cannon

Our favorite woman was a disappointment.

Mar 13

The costs of the default

Why economics of inference are dissolving shared baselines faster than design could.

Mar 10

No further action required

All relationship signals within normal range.

Mar 6

The system builds what the system builds

Conway's Law, and the structures we find so difficult to escape

Mar 3

February 2026

Recorded everything. Remembered nothing.

Feb 27

A design system isn't an aggregator. It's a contract.

Tools can aggregate assets. They can't make a system real.

Feb 24

Optimized fatherhood. Easy installation.

Feb 20

Code to canvas is bonkers

Figma's latest feature solves Figma's problem, not yours

Feb 18

Execution is cheap. Coordination is not.

The case for the control plane.

Feb 17

Sanctioned pain, dispassionate crowd.

Feb 13

Algorithmic interfaces

When systems decide what you're allowed to do

Feb 10

Blue in low resolution

Accounting for human judgment in a system that wants to automate law.

Feb 6

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