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In 2018, Gene Kim and John Willis released Beyond the Phoenix Project, a nine-part audio series that digs into the philosophical roots of the DevOps movement. It's an excellent supplement to The Phoenix Project. Where the novel shows the pain, the audio series explains why…

This week, I built a 3D physics simulation that runs in the browser. True, I’ve never used WebGL or touched Three.js, but the point isn’t that AI can write code. The point is that product intent now compiles. It started as a dare. Monday was…

I fired up Publii for the first time in a while today. I wanted to blog about a technical problem that was niche enough that an article might help the next person who runs into it. Instead, I found myself solving a sort-of-obtuse Publii issue,…

Say what you will about Twitter and its impact on our culture, but you can't deny that the people building it acted with passion and care. Since the end of October, when the company was bought out and taken private, those creators have watched helplessly…

(This post started life as a Twitter thread.) DHH has been getting lots of recent traction with a blog post about how his company, 37signals, is abandoning the cloud. Because he's DHH, this becomes a long rant about self-reliance and cutting out predatory middlemen. He…