Archive
Every issue, every week
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Skipping Step Zero
AI can help us get to the complaining-about-proposed-software stage faster.
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Software Can Be Temporary
The superpower of programming is hacking crap together really fast to see what breaks.
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Learning in Little Steps
Thinking about Aboard's AI capabilities like a scientific middle-schooler, by balancing knowledge and practice.
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Aboard Is Brighter, Shinier, AI-Powered, and Much More Useful
Almost everyone needs to manage data, but few people want to define how data should work.
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Hanging Out in the Software Hallway
On the liminal space between current and new versions.
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Defining “Success” On Your Own Terms
You are probably not a hugely powerful and dominant silverback technology gorilla.
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In Software, Slow Is Exciting
Things that are fast to build tend to be disposable—it’s the complex stuff that has the most impact.
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What Makes People Lean Into Software?
It can’t all be appetizers. Sometimes you need to serve an entree.
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Beeps of Yore
Learning from messy tech pasts via the history of the synthesizer industry.
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The Eternal Dream of Instant Software
Why does it always end up so complicated?
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