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Notes from the team behind wat.lu. Long-form essays, short notes, and the occasional manifesto.

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Small things we like this week: The way Source Serif 4 handles ligatures at 19px. Lucide's stroke weight at 1.75. The fact that a markdown file is still a perfect text format, forty years later.

Late spring in Luxembourg. The Pétrusse valley is full of new green and the sky is still a little blue at nine o'clock. We're writing this from the rooftop. There is no better office.

The shape of a page

There is a particular pleasure in opening a book and finding the page well-set. The margins are generous. The line is short enough that your eye does not have to travel — but long enough that the prose breathes. The lead-in to a paragraph i…

Welcome to wat. We built this place because we kept wanting one tool, and finding three. We wanted to write long, careful essays — and have them rendered with the kind of typography you'd expect from a book. We wanted to keep living documen…

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