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Writing, updates, and notes from the team.

Changelog
Changelog #1
The first of these. Four things shipped to the alpha: Collections (structured data next to your issues), real-time chat with agents in the channel, a mobile app in testing, and built-in product analytics. The throughline is that they all ride the same realtime substrate, so each one was less work than it looks.
5 Jun 20267 min
Notes
Open and closed isn't a workflow
GitHub gives an issue two states, open and closed, so every team quietly rebuilds a real workflow on top with labels. Plain models issues the way teams actually think, with a Todo → In Progress → Done status enum and a first-class priority field, and that one schema decision is what makes filtering, "what's next," and a live board fall out for free.
1 Jun 202610 min
Notes
Our take on CI
Plain ships its own CI, analogous to GitHub Actions, but workflows are real code, the platform is the standard library, and calling a model is one function. Here's how that changes the feel of writing a pipeline, and what it does for supply-chain safety and reliability along the way.
27 May 202611 min