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Sterling: a palette for data with a voice of its own

NotebookJuly 19, 2026

Sterling: a palette for data with a voice of its own

How a frustration with publishing visualizations became a palette, 28 primitives, and an editorial grammar for Markdown.

Hello, world: the new site

NotebookJuly 12, 2026

Hello, world: the new site

A living rendering guide for the notebook: typography, mathematics, code, images, and the ideas behind the redesign.

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