Acme Journal

Acme Journal
The Acme Blog

Notes on building calm software

Essays on product, engineering and design - one post a week, no hot takes.

Editor's pick

A glass teapot and cups on a quiet table
Design5 min read

Designing for calm

Fewer badges, quieter colors, one primary action per screen.

Hannah Lee
A wooden pier running out into a calm sea
Company4 min read

Why we close on Fridays

Two years of a four-day week, and what it did to the roadmap.

AH Aron Homberg

The Sunday letter

One essay a week in your inbox, on Sunday morning. Nothing else, ever.

A demo: nothing is sent.

About the journal

The Acme Journal is where the people who build Acme write about their work - the engineers, the designers and the founders themselves, one essay a week.

Nobody here writes for clicks. A post goes out when it is finished, and it stays the way it was published; corrections are added at the end.

Edited by Hannah Lee. Write to journal@acme.example.

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