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Written by the people who build Cairn. No guest posts, no listicles.
21 August 2026 · 5 min read
Cycle reviews: the status meeting you no longer need
Why we generate a review page at the end of every cycle, and what teams do with the forty-five minutes they get back.
Elin Sørensen
Why Cairn works on a train
A short tour of the local-first sync engine: why every screen renders from a cache, and how conflicts are resolved without anyone noticing.
Daniel Achebe · 9 July 2026 · 7 min
PlanningCapacity is a number, not a feeling
How we show overcommitment before a cycle starts, and why the honest version of the plan is the one people actually follow.
Marta Kowalczyk · 2 June 2026 · 4 min
ProductA changelog customers actually read
Release notes are marketing, documentation and support in one page. Here is how we write ours, and how the public changelog feature came out of it.
Hana Ito · 15 April 2026 · 4 min
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