Open source quietly runs the modern world – the servers, phones, and cloud platforms almost everyone depends on. Yet much of it is maintained by small teams or lone volunteers, […]

Interfaces shape thought. The command line, the mouse, the touchscreen – each did not just change how we used computers but what we imagined they were for. As new modes […]

Every few years the technology industry crowns a new platform shift, and most fade. What separates a genuine shift from a fad is not the demo but the substrate: does […]

The economics of software have always been strange: near-zero marginal cost, enormous fixed cost, and winner-take-most dynamics. Understanding those forces explains more about the tech industry than any product roadmap. […]