PRISM
FIELD
Notes on design, code, and the near future.
Sofia Marchetti
INDEX
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI Agents in 2026
The prevailing narrative assumes autonomous agents will replace human orchestration. The reality of the structural shift is far more mundane, and far more disruptive to the middle layer of software.
Liquid Glass Is the New Flat Design
After a decade of flat, matte interfaces, we are seeing a violent swing back to skeuomorphism, but filtered through the lens of hyper-refraction and physical material simulation.
I Rebuilt My Blog in a Weekend
Moving from a bloated CMS to a statically generated, brutalist architecture. Notes on performance, the death of the loading spinner, and why I chose to write my own parser.
The 2-Hour Deep Work Myth
Why the industrial-era concept of 'focus blocks' fails modern knowledge workers, and how continuous partial attention can actually be harnessed as a creative tool.
Design Systems Are Opinionated Political Documents
A component library is never neutral. It encodes the power dynamics, the priorities, and the blind spots of the organization that built it.
Rust for Frontend Developers in 2026
WASM has finally crossed the threshold of mainstream viability. A practical guide to writing high-performance UI components without leaving the browser.
Milano, Slow Internet, Fast Ideas
Observations on the friction of physical spaces, the necessity of boredom, and why the best architectural thinking happens offline.
Newsletter Metrics That Actually Matter
Stop looking at open rates. The only signal of true audience capture is the ratio of direct replies to unsubscribes.
SOFIA
MARCHETTI
Design meets engineering. Tools, taste, and quiet decisions behind products people actually open. Milan-based, global audience.
SIGNAL
One transmission per week on design, code, and structural change.