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Ben Conolly

Writer who has moved from writing fiction to writing code. Delights in delightedness.

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    On design systems legibility

    A design system that nobody can understand is a design system nobody can use. This is why good documentation is so key to having a well-used and well-loved design system. Noviny walks you through two of Atlassian’s documentation sites for the company-wide design system & component library Atlaskit, showing how the content is built and written, and the practical steps you can take immediately to tackle the hard problems around large documentation projects.

    January 2019

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    Organisational knowledge is usually spread across a dozen tools, and keyword search only finds results that match exact words. We run text search, embedding search and reranking on the same dataset, and find out how semantic search with a reranker returns the most relevant results for a query.

    October 2026·12 min read
  • Your agent believes that docs folder

    The agent trusted a committed docs folder of generated artefacts over my instructions. I deleted the lot and lost nothing.

    September 2026·8 min read
  • Are your AI agents making progress or producing work?

    We shipped a working MVP for the Tech Council of Australia in two weeks using an agentic development workflow. Along the way, we learned how easily agents can produce convincing work without moving a product forward, and why engineers still need to decide what progress looks like.

    September 2026·5 min read

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