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Notes from the floor

Essays on remote work, the design of virtual floors, and the engineering underneath Remote Desk.

Design10 March 2026 · 2 min read

Designing virtual floors people actually want to sit in

A virtual office can be worse than no office: empty, confusing, performatively fun. Here are the patterns that make a floor feel inhabited.

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Engineering2 min read

Seat-based channels: presence without the meeting link

Remote Desk has no 'join call' button: the seat you sit in is the call you're in. How it works, why we deleted the alternative, and what it makes possible.

4 February 2026

Engineering2 min read

Self-hosting your office: one VPS, zero SaaS

Your team's conversations are its most sensitive data. Here is the stack that runs a whole Remote Desk floor, media server and all, on a server you control.

13 January 2026