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Article First Transmission
Random Chaos is live. Here's what we're building and why it matters.
Article engineering
Why Nobody Reads Your Documentation
It's not a literacy problem. It's a trust problem. Your docs have been lying to developers for years.
Fiction horror
Maintenance Window
A sysadmin on the night shift finds something in the server logs that shouldn't be there.
Article engineering
The Database Is the Product
Your app is a UI for a database. Once you accept that, everything about software architecture gets simpler.
Article culture
On Building Things Nobody Asked For
The most interesting software comes from people solving their own problems. The least interesting comes from people solving market problems.