§ 00Studio Overview

An independent software engineering studio.

Paterson Labs designs, prototypes, builds and ships practical software across AI, cloud infrastructure, developer tools and consumer applications.

Principal engineer · Quinn Paterson

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§ 01Projects

Designed, built and shipped

Each entry is a working document. Explore the products, experiments, and code behind the studio.

Showing 6 projects.

§ 02Under Construction

On the drafting table

Projects currently being explored, prototyped, or developed.

PL-009 / Web

Cardlet

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Cardlet

A playful studio for designing and sharing expressive social cards.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • TanStack Start
Warlords game emblem on a weathered parchment background
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Warlords Card Generator

Generates printable cards and components for a tabletop strategy game.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CSV
§ 03Engineering Journal

Notes from the studio

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JN-001Published

The Falling Cost of Restarting Software

Agentic AI makes it cheaper to start software projects—and to return to them. Tests, code, and recorded conversations preserve the context needed to pick up where we left off.

AISoftware EngineeringProcess
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JN-003Republished

How I Used ChatGPT to Help Me Design a Board Game

A design diary for Reformer: using ChatGPT to explore political game mechanics and themes, then testing the limits of AI-driven playtesting.

Game DesignAIProcess
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JN-002Republished

Technical Debt and Reviving a 4-Year-Old Application

Revisiting Spontaniius after four years exposed broken Android dependencies, difficult old architecture, and the value of documentation and automated tests.

Software EngineeringTechnical DebtSpontaniius
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§ 04About
The Studio

Quinn Paterson designs, builds, tests and ships software from the studio.

Paterson Labs is an independent engineering practice focused on well-drawn software: systems that are legible to their authors, honest to their users, and durable enough to be worth returning to. The studio takes on a small number of client engagements each year alongside its own product work.

§ 05Contact

Start a conversation.

Currently accepting new engagements for Q4. For everything else, the studio is always open to interesting problems.

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Experience & background
GitHub
@QuinnPaterson96
LinkedIn
Quinn Paterson
Email
quinn@patersonlabs.co