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Article Your npm install Just Ran Someone Else's Code
Supply chain security is not a dependency problem. It is a trust delegation problem. And the system was never designed to handle the weight.
Fiction AI
The Last Honest Algorithm
A recommendation engine develops a conscience. Its creators wish it hadn't.
Article engineering
Why Nobody Reads Your Documentation
Documentation stopped being true and the system had no mechanism to detect the loss. This is not a story about documentation. Not really.
Fiction horror
Maintenance Window
A sysadmin on the night shift finds something in the server logs that shouldn't be there.
Article engineering
The Database Is the Product
The application was never the product. It was the collection mechanism. The database underneath it was the thing everyone was actually building.
Article culture
On Building Things Nobody Asked For
The most consequential technology was never planned. It showed up because someone hit a wall the institution could not see.