Experienced developer · Wannabe designer · Apprentice writer

Johnny
Well, technically.

I ship small, useful things as an indie maker — and run Arbeit Studio with a handful of very specific opinions about software.

Johnny Well
Johnny, somewhere online.

What's around here

Six rooms · one house

02 Soon

Blog

Long-form, technical-ish

How something works, why it broke, what I'd do differently.

03 Soon

Writing

Apprentice-shaped essays

Quieter pieces — learning the craft, slowly, in public.

04 Soon

Bookmarks

A linkblog

Things worth your click, each with a sentence from me.

05 Soon

Talks

Words said out loud

Conferences, meetups, and the occasional ramble.

Now

Updated Jun 8, 2026

Building

Featurama v2

Reading

Something with footnotes

Thinking

Why every SaaS wants a sidebar

A small manifesto, mostly serious

Software should feel like it was made on purpose, by a person, for a person.

1 Small, but considered.
2 Weird, but legible.
3 Opinionated, but kind.
4 Finished. Actually shipped.