Socialocca https://socialocca.com/blog Product updates, design notes, and engineering deep-dives from the Socialocca studio. en-us Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT The optimiser that made Shapeshifter worse https://socialocca.com/blog/shapeshifter-color-engine https://socialocca.com/blog/shapeshifter-color-engine Two changes made palettes measurably better and the product measurably worse. Notes from rewriting a colour engine, including the bug where best-of-24 was secretly best-of-2. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT team@socialocca.com (Heyitskenton) Watchrr: what a green status page doesn't tell you https://socialocca.com/blog/watchrr-green-status-page https://socialocca.com/blog/watchrr-green-status-page Watchrr is meant to become a trading-floor dashboard for the internet. The first instrument on the board is outage monitoring — and the hardest part turned out to be deciding which sources to believe. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT team@socialocca.com (Heyitskenton)