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Long-form writing on tech, culture, and the edges of the internet.
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.
First Transmission
Information systems became power systems. This site exists to examine what actually happened.
The Attention Economy Is a Hostage Situation
Attention was supposed to be the price of free services. It became the product. The architecture that followed was not designed for exchange. It was designed for capture.
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.
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.
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.