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Biilmann Blog Spring 2026

The Type Edition

Pretext & Donald
Knuth

"Producing text that actually
looks and reads like a printed book."

01

Two typographic changes inspired by Cheng Lou's pretext library and the Knuth-Plass justification algorithm — bringing the precision of TeX to the open web. Almost any printed book uses justified text. On the web, browsers' greedy line-by-line approach creates rivers of white. The Knuth-Plass algorithm considers the entire paragraph as a global optimization problem — and the result is text that finally reads like print.

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02

AI and Ambition

AI isn't just about efficiency—it's about unlocking ambition. Small experiments on a personal blog reveal how AI agents let us push ideas further and build things we'd never have time for.

03

My Bot Got Banned for Being a Bot

When my personal AI agent got my Google account disabled, it highlighted a fundamental challenge: how do we distinguish helpful personal agents from malicious automation?

04

One Year of AX

Reflecting on the first year since introducing Agent Experience (AX) and why the term is more crucial and important today than ever.

Matt Biilmann

Mathias Biilmann

CEO and Co-founder of Netlify. Developer, entrepreneur, and thought leader in modern web development — pioneering the Jamstack movement, composable web architecture, and front-end cloud.