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Essays on craft, stages, and the stories inside software.

Storytelling doesn't stop at the stage door. This is where I think out loud, usually in an airport.

01 Feb 2026 A Note About European Tech SovereigntyLLMs are quietly solving the compatibility problem that blocked open-source adoption for decades. → 18 Sep 2025 No amount of technology will turn a bad story into a good storyJohn Lasseter's principle applies as much to keynotes as it does to Pixar. → 16 Sep 2025 There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it soEvery generation panics about the new thing. They've always been wrong. → 16 Sep 2025 The pig and the butchersA chase at Edgbaston, and what cricket knows about tradition. → 16 Sep 2025 I do not understandHow a misunderstanding named a peninsula. → 15 Sep 2025 A brief history of client requestsFrom animated GIFs in 1998 to autonomous agents in 2025. → 12 Sep 2025 Nobody is lookingBots write the web, bots read it, and we're training AI on the wreckage. → 04 Jan 2016 How to name a browser by those who haveChrome was named because someone liked fast cars. →