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Digital products emerge from digital factories. I write about both.

I have previously made some allusions to the saturation of LLMs in the current moment by comparing it with what happened during the last major hype cycle. Today as a developer it seems every conferenc...

I'm telling the story of software in a manner that does not assume the knowledge of particular technical concepts. The big picture: running software (e.g. an opened app) is a manufacturing process. Wh...

Late last year I presented at a conference, and a while later I received some feedback. There were a couple of things that came up that I was sympathetic to: One was that following the (abstract) conc...

Across previous pieces I broke down delivery into various stages from a commercial strategy to a user's perceived experience. Ideally every stage is executed perfectly, and the flow is linear. If that...

Although the group of people who play digital games has arguably grown to be much broader and more diverse over the last two decades, until recently it was a widely held belief that digital games were...

Markets and factories are two examples of widespread recursive patterns in software. There's another prominent pattern that I've mentioned a number of times across various posts, and that is the handshake agreement. The concept behind the handshake agreement is simple - a system (or primitive) needs to trust the output

Social media is a nexus of many of the topics I've written about. The company formerly known as Facebook has had a major hand in shaping society, digital markets for both physical and digital goods, p...

In the last go around I covered the advent of the public cloud which is effectively a hosting resource for the web. Before the cloud, developers could pay specialised companies for hosting services. T...

I've made one or two mentions to professional wrestling in previous posts. It's a well that I think we can draw a little more from. To understand how, recall how the general concept of the factory mod...