Articles
Long-form writing on tech, culture, and the edges of the internet.
engineeringrant
Why Nobody Reads Your Documentation
Documentation stopped being true and the system had no mechanism to detect the loss. This is not a story about documentation. Not really.
6 min
engineeringarchitecture
The Database Is the Product
The application was never the product. It was the collection mechanism. The database underneath it was the thing everyone was actually building.
7 min
culturemaking
On Building Things Nobody Asked For
The most consequential technology was never planned. It showed up because someone hit a wall the institution could not see.
5 min