infra
Northwind Logistics
internal scheduler, 8m rows, 380 ms → 11 ms
2025 →
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we build leaning forward.
lunge.dev is a small developer atelier for teams who refuse to coast. We design momentum into systems — interfaces, infrastructure, and the protocols that hold them together.
see the stride
shipping·
not pitching·
specifications over slogans·
typed end to end·
quiet on the outside·
relentless within·
shipping·
not pitching·
specifications over slogans·
typed end to end·
quiet on the outside·
relentless within·
§ 01
a small manifest, written while standing
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Posture is policy.
Codebases inherit the body language of their authors. Leaning back yields legacy. We choose architecture that points somewhere on purpose.
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02
Specifications, not slogans.
Every feature begins with a written contract. If it cannot be described without an adjective, it is not yet a feature.
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03
Drag is a measurement.
We track friction the way other shops track usage. Every pull request ends with the question: did this make tomorrow lighter?
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04
No marketing voice.
We read documentation back to ourselves. If it sounds embarrassing, the API is wrong, not the prose.
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05
Forward, then steady.
Momentum without rhythm is a stumble. We pair every push with a quiet week of polishing the floor we just crossed.
§ 02
the stride
a four-phase loop, repeated until something is alive.
plant
days 1 – 4
We sit with your team, write down what is unsaid, and produce one document no one has time to write themselves.
push
days 5 – 18
Implementation in branches small enough to read in one sitting. Daily builds. Weekly call. Nothing shipped without a spec under it.
land
days 19 – 22
We hand work over with diagrams, a runbook, and a list of the assumptions we made you out loud, in writing.
repeat
forever, optional
Most clients keep us on a slow retainer for the things that should not be rushed: schema migrations, observability, reading older code aloud.
§ 03
recent strides
selected work, listed without screenshots, the way a tailor lists clients.
interface
Sable & Pine
commerce front-of-house, ssr to islands, full rewrite
2025
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protocol
Kalefield Health
HL7 → typed event bus, 14 hospital sites, zero downtime cut-over
2024
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tooling
Folio Press
editorial CMS, custom diff & review, 40 writers daily
2024
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platform
Bramble Robotics
fleet telemetry stack, rust + nats, 22 ms p99 across 3 regions
2023
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research
Quiet Atlas
private mapping toolchain, offline-first, 6 desks across 4 cities
2023
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§ 04
in the field, since 2019
0
strides shipped
0
long-form clients
0
people, no managers
0
decks, ever
"They wrote down what we'd been arguing about for two years and made the arguing stop. The product shipped a week later. We kept them."
— head of engineering, Northwind Logistics
§ 05
if you have a project that wants to start, write the first sentence below.
We answer within two working days, in long form, from a real person. No discovery calls. No mailing list. No recruiters, ever.