Writing

How Noisy Brood is being built, week by week, and the research on attention and email it is built on.

• 12 October 2026 · Tim

  Two guards for the waitlist form

  A daily limit on confirmation emails that ten requests at once could get past, and a check that turns away forms sent from other sites.

• 5 October 2026 · Tim

  Two CI changes that made the main branch fail

  Running the checks at once on a small CI machine made one test too slow for its time limit, and a second change made the machine do more at once.

• 28 September 2026 · Tim

  Gmail said 403 when it meant slow down

  Two fixes to how Brood reads a mailbox at Gmail's pace, one for an error that was misread and one for requests that came too fast.