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Articles from the team, interleaved with field notes from founder Rob Martinson's workbench—what we're building and shipping, as it happens.
Field Notetitletools.io
TitleTools Workers
This is what it sounds like when we run a batch of 800 docs through TitleTools on our small local worker cluster.
Field NoteLimelytetitletools.io
NATS as an event fabric
Been building with NATS for the last few years now and I feel like I'm becoming a fanboy. It's the event fabric underneath several of our bigger projects, Sluicebox, TitleTools, PropertySync. Different products, totally different problem spaces, same bus. For the enterprise stuff it does what you'd expect. Message…
Field Notesluicebox.ioLimelyte
Sluicebox, Scheduling, Milestones, Workflows
Sluicebox got a big round of updates this week. Mostly around project scheduling and task workflows, the stuff that was too simple before. Tasks used to be completed or not. That's it. Binary. Which is fine until you're actually managing work across a team and need to know what's in progress, what's waiting on review,…
Field Notetitletools.ioLimelyte
TitleTools AutoExamine
Working on our AutoExamine functionality in TitleTools
Field Notenugget
nugget name collision
Someone in the office looked at nugget.com and it's basically the same product, AI agent for business data, but with a lot more money behind it. Cool. Guess we're renaming.
Field NoteLimelyte
timers that write their own descriptions
Global rule: when I'm working on a project, the agent keeps a timer running and appends a client-readable description as work happens. I don't write time entries. They write themselves. This matters because time tracking drives billing at Limelyte. Every entry needs a real description, the kind a client reads on an…
Field Noteshunt.app
Shunt
I run too many Claude Code sessions in too many tmux panes, and half the time I'm not at the keyboard when one needs approval. Shunt sits on top of tmux's control mode. Go daemon parses the agent output as it streams, watches for pending-approval prompts, and exposes everything as a web app, an iPad app, and a phone…
Field NoteLimelyte
the golden pattern
The stack we keep landing on at Limelyte. Go API, Gin router, Gorm or SQLX or SQLC for data depending on how much SQL we want to write by hand, SQLite for anything that doesn't need Postgres. Auth via Goth when we need OAuth. One binary. No runtime dependencies. Cobra CLI, built at the same time as the API, not after.…
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The Hidden Cost of Big Bang Rewrites
Why the 'burn it down and start fresh' approach keeps failing—and what actually works. 66% of major software rewrites fail. Here's the methodology that succeeds.
January 13, 2026
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Why We Rebuilt Our Mission-Critical System Using Our Own Methodology
Would you trust a methodology the consultant won't use themselves? We put our Hybrid Migration approach to the ultimate test: rebuilding our own 20-year-old business system with zero downtime. Here's what happened.
November 18, 2025
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AI in Software Development: We're Faster, Not Lazier
AI is making us faster at solving problems, not replacing the need to actually solve them. Here's how 26 years of experience + AI tools = better software development.
November 1, 2025
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Raspberry Pi Cluster Incoming
We've been working on a new project in the office—a Raspberry Pi cluster designed to support our team's development efforts.
February 21, 2025
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Dev Jon Townsend Playing Around with Unity
Check out our developer Jon Townsend's Unity game project - a fun space defender game you can play right in your browser!
November 16, 2022
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Rob's Support of Numerica Small Business
Watch Rob share his experience and support for Numerica's Small Business program in this featured interview.
November 16, 2022
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Meet The Team: Merri Elliott
Born in 1964, to parents living on Vashon Island, Merri has had an incredible journey that led her to become a beloved member of the Limelyte team.
September 18, 2022
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Things That Go Bump in the Night
Our building was originally built in 1911 to house the Buchanan mortuary. While we love working here, we're not alone in this beautiful historic space.
September 18, 2022
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How Limelyte's Software Development Can Help Grow Your Business
With the tumultuous year of 2020 thankfully in the rearview mirror, organizations around the world have been forced to adapt to a new paradigm of how software is developed in 2021.
March 15, 2021
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