The archive
Every technology essay we have published, newest first. Free to read, with no paywall at the end.
24 Aug 2026•3 min read
Demo videos sell general-purpose machines. Deployments are winning on narrow tasks, predictable environments, and power budgets, which is where the real engineering is happening.
23 Aug 2026•3 min read
Fabrication facilities, national lab partnerships, and energy-sector pilots signal a field moving from physics results to supply chain, which is a less exciting and far more meaningful phase.
22 Aug 2026•3 min read
Deploying close to users stopped being a differentiator and became the default. The interesting consequences are in how we design data, not in how fast the HTML arrives.
20 Aug 2026•3 min read
Passwordless authentication crossed the line from novelty to expectation. The remaining work is mostly recovery flows and account linking, not cryptography.
19 Aug 2026•3 min read
Self-hosting a capable model is now a genuine option rather than a research exercise. The decision turns on data sensitivity and load shape, not on ideology.
17 Aug 2026•3 min read
Local-first storage, WebAssembly, and capable device hardware mean a surprising amount of work no longer needs a server round trip at all.
16 Aug 2026•3 min read
Compute demand is now large enough that power availability shapes where and when workloads run. That has started to show up in ordinary engineering decisions.
15 Aug 2026•2 min read
The moment your internal service has three consumers it has become a platform, and platforms fail differently from applications. Most teams notice too late.
27 Jun 2026•2 min read
Slow feedback loops do not just waste minutes. They change how developers work, pushing teams toward larger batches and less experimentation.
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