May 2026 · Issue 09
On writing for machines that read
LLMs have changed how content is consumed. Here's what it means for long-form writers — and how Inkwell's llms.txt support fits in.
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Past issues
From the archive.
April 2026 · Issue 08
The Studio layout and the idea of the portfolio-blog
There's a middle ground between the personal essay and the case study. The Studio layout is our attempt to hold that ground without collapsing it.
March 2026 · Issue 07
Why we chose Source Serif 4
A variable font with optical sizing, designed for screen and print. We tested fourteen typefaces over three weeks. Here's what we learned.
February 2026 · Issue 06
Multi-tenancy: one binary, many blogs
How Inkwell's tenant model works under the hood — EF Core schema prefixes, host routing, and what it means to host a hundred blogs from one deploy.
January 2026 · Issue 05
The Notebook and the long tail of short thoughts
Not every idea earns an essay. The Notebook layout is for the rest of them — the fragments, the half-formed arguments, the observations that deserve a home.
December 2025 · Issue 04
Against the plugin marketplace
Every WordPress site I've ever inherited has had seventeen plugins, three of which are abandoned, two of which conflict. Inkwell ships no marketplace. Here's why.