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11-30-23	Discord and AI GTM
11-23-23	Duties of a Board of Directors
11-14-23	What if Google Wasn’t The Default?
10-30-23	What If OpenAI Builds This?
10-27-23	When A/B Testing Doesn't Work
10-25-23	Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity
10-07-23	Incentives Behind Programming Languages
10-06-23	3D as the New Modality
09-21-23	Automate (But Automate Last)
09-18-23	Five Principles from Renaissance Technologies
09-17-23	Moving Upmarket
09-13-23	The New Economics of Generating Code
09-12-23	The Inevitability of Scope Creep
09-08-23	The Hardware / Software Cycle
09-06-23	The Widgetification of Apple
08-29-23	The Contrarian Strategy of OpenAI
08-28-23	GitHub Inbox as GTM
08-26-23	The Business Source License
08-18-23	Directly Responsible Individuals
08-06-23	NVIDIA's CUDA Monopoly
08-04-23	Focus On What Could Go Right (Not Wrong)
08-03-23	Apple's Hidden Social Network
07-19-23	Why Did Meta Open-Source Llama 2?
07-13-23	Hard Launches vs. Soft Launches
07-09-23	Towards Technical CEOs
07-08-23	ActivityPub, Decentralization - Do Users Care?
07-04-23	Where AI Fits in Engineering Organizations
07-02-23	Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
07-01-23	The Circular Startup Economy
06-27-23	Dark Patterns
06-11-23	The Last Innings of Web 2.0
06-01-23	The End of Public APIs
05-22-23	Twitter and the Idea Maze
04-28-23	Why Multi-Cloud Failed
04-20-23	Peanut Butter Manifesto (2006)
04-09-23	No GPUs before Product-Market Fit
04-06-23	Internet Magic Numbers
04-04-23	Reasons To Do a Startup
04-03-23	The Automation Frontier
04-02-23	Why Open-Source a Model?
04-01-23	Consumption Pricing Units in AI
03-25-23	Necessary Conditions for an App Store Monopoly
03-23-23	Are Incumbents Accruing All The AI Value?
03-20-23	Framework-Defined Infrastructure
03-18-23	The Value of Software Generalists
03-11-23	Automatic1111 and AI Aggregators
03-10-23	All the -Ops
03-08-23	Data Local Machine Learning
03-07-23	On React.js
03-05-23	Will The AI Stack Be Open Or Closed?
03-03-23	Product Windows
03-02-23	ChatML and the ChatGPT API
03-01-23	The Bundling of the Software Developer
02-28-23	Shells and Distribution
02-26-23	Wrong Sequences For Startups
02-23-23	The Connectors/Loaders Trap
02-18-23	Nix Is Fighting The Last War
02-11-23	What Won't Change
02-10-23	Multi-Model vs. Multi-Cloud
02-09-23	Should OSS Projects Have Telemetry?
02-08-23	Reactive Strategy
02-05-23	Composable Models
02-03-23	If It Doesn’t Ship, It Doesn’t Exist
02-01-23	Future is Not Evenly Distributed
01-25-23	Cloud Services Ranked: Build vs. Buy
01-22-23	GPT Lineage
01-20-23	Cheap UIs
01-19-23	Cloud Spend Breakdown
01-18-23	Rebuilding in Rust
01-12-23	Minix and nanoGPT
01-11-23	Fully Managed Infrastructure
01-10-23	Lessons from the Last AI Cycle
01-09-23	White Space
01-07-23	Semi-Organic Growth
01-06-23	What's Next After NextJS
01-05-23	RPA: The Human Interface
01-04-23	The Implications of More Developers
01-02-23	A New ML Stack
12-30-22	Local AI: Part 2
12-29-22	Local AI: Part 1
12-24-22	Shortest Time-to-Launch
12-23-22	Software Rewrites
12-21-22	ML Developer Experience
12-20-22	The Architecture of Mastodon
12-19-22	How Did Microsoft Win Back Devs?
12-17-22	The Fall of Freenode
12-16-22	Docker as a DevTool Platform
12-15-22	AI-driven Interfaces
12-13-22	Abstracting the Infrastructure
12-12-22	Lessons from Lensa
12-11-22	Tarpit Ideas
12-06-22	Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT
12-05-22	Will LLMs Disrupt Google Search?
12-04-22	The Frontend Ouroboros
12-02-22	Apple's Enemies
11-27-22	Human-in-the-Loop and Other AI Mistakes
11-23-22	The Cloud Tax Implications
11-20-22	Will Twitter Fail?
11-19-22	Generative AI Value Chain
11-18-22	Amazon's Distributed Computing Manifesto (1998)
11-16-22	Solving the Simple Case
11-15-22	On the Mastodon Experiment
11-14-22	On Launching
11-11-22	On FTX
11-07-22	What Happens to Infra Engineers?
11-05-22	UGC: User-Generated Code
11-02-22	Who Pays? The Twitter Blue Check
11-01-22	What If Google Builds This?
10-31-22	Facebook's Culture Book (2012)
10-26-22	Apple's Ad Positioning
10-23-22	Moat By Induction
10-21-22	AI Will Write Most Code
10-20-22	Cloud Repatriation or Not?
10-14-22	Short Taxonomy of Open-Source Strategies
10-11-22	Why Is NixOS Popular Again?
10-09-22	On Web Clipping
10-04-22	Free Compute and Replit
09-30-22	Why Stadia Failed
09-26-22	Startup Ideas I've Considered
09-24-22	What's an MVP in 2022?
09-19-22	Standards, Protocols, and Platforms
09-18-22	Is GitHub a Social Network?
09-16-22	Adobe/Figma
09-02-22	The Unbundling of Twitter
09-01-22	Low-end Disruption of AWS
08-31-22	Why Does Google Kill So Many Products?
08-29-22	Design in OSS
08-28-22	Timeline of Early Email
08-25-22	The Value is in the API
08-22-22	r/K Startup Theory
08-21-22	Tool-driven Scientific Revolutions
08-18-22	Friction as a Proxy for Value
08-16-22	Teams, Slack, and Discord in Retrospect
07-29-22	Brooks in Reverse
07-28-22	Don't Be Scared of Cloud Lock-in
07-20-22	Choosing Esoteric Technology
07-16-22	IaC: Strength or Weakness for Cloud Providers?
07-14-22	The Story of CP/M
07-12-22	Distribution in a Downturn
07-09-22	So Easy You Could Run It Yourself
07-05-22	Commoditization of Large Language Models
06-25-22	Asset-lite in an Asset-Heavy Business
06-19-22	Is Snowflake a Platform?
06-16-22	Convergence of DBaaS and BaaS
06-08-22	The Surprising Linearity of GitHub Star Growth
06-07-22	The Centralization of Skype
06-06-22	Usage-based Pricing in a Downturn
06-04-22	Datadog's State of Serverless
06-03-22	The Idea Maze
06-01-22	Product Velocity of Alternative Cloud Platforms
05-30-22	Interface Decomposition in Cloud
05-27-22	ETL vs. Platform Extensibility
05-23-22	A Universal Package Manager
05-20-22	Crypto Without Blockchains
05-19-22	Streaming Applications
05-18-22	Minsky Cycle
05-17-22	SQLite Renaissance
05-15-22	The Problem of Sharing Code
05-14-22	Stablecoin Depegging
05-13-22	Why Did Heroku Fail?
05-11-22	Future of Passwords
05-05-22	API Aggregators Aggregating Aggregators
05-02-22	{Java,Py}Script
05-01-22	The M:N API Problem
04-30-22	Ethereum Transaction Fees
04-28-22	What's Holding Monorepos Back?
04-27-22	Path Dependence
04-26-22	Improving Twitter
04-24-22	Innovation Tokens
04-23-22	Permissionless Reckoning
04-22-22	Chekhov's Gun of Product Development
04-21-22	Why Do Protocols Win?
04-19-22	Less Sticky SaaS
04-18-22	Only the Paranoid Survive
04-17-22	Stitching Together SaaS
04-14-22	Cathedral and Bazaar Startups
04-12-22	Why So Many Outages?
04-09-22	Every Unix Command Becomes a Startup
04-07-22	Shift Left: Observability at the Edge
04-06-22	NFT and Email Spam
03-30-22	Lagging vs. Leading Indicators
03-28-22	Threat of the Hard Fork
03-23-22	SaaS is the New Microservices
03-22-22	Working on the Right Problems
03-21-22	Trends from The Enterprise 30
03-20-22	Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
03-15-22	GitHub Isn't About Code
03-14-22	youtube-dl and Google
03-09-22	Exponential Trends
03-01-22	Giving It Away For Free
02-26-22	Why First Mover Advantage is Overrated
02-23-22	J-Curves
02-22-22	Don't Ship an Architecture
02-21-22	Total Cost of Ownership and Crypto
02-16-22	What is Dog Fooding, Fish Fooding a Product?
02-14-22	Cutting Out the Middleman
02-08-22	VA Linux
02-07-22	Platform vs. Publishers
02-06-22	Onion Futures Act and Saturated Channels
02-05-22	Commoditized Trust
02-04-22	Meta on Meta
02-03-22	Behind the $325mm Blockchain Hack
02-01-22	Okta's 2022 Business at Work
01-30-22	Building the VPC Layer for Cloud
01-27-22	Dumb (and Free) Interchange
01-24-22	S3 Isn't Getting Cheaper
01-23-22	Negative Value Features
01-20-22	Antitrust Opportunity
01-18-22	Layer Above, Layer Below
01-16-22	Notes from Behind the Cloud
01-15-22	Best Tech Acquisitions of All Time
01-14-22	Code or Issues in DevOps Platform(s)?
01-10-22	Too Cheap to Meter
01-08-22	The Story of Adobe
01-06-22	Losing Sleep Over Java
12-30-21	Expert Networks
12-29-21	Open Customer Data
12-25-21	Capturing Digital Identity
12-14-21	Unused Gift Cards are Great Business
12-03-21	Every DevOps Company is an Observability Company
11-30-21	On Centralization
11-28-21	Calculating Willingness to Pay
11-27-21	Browse Now, Pay Later
11-26-21	Netlify, Vercel, and AWS Amplify
11-25-21	Cloud Marketplaces
11-18-21	Being Wrong on Hacker News
11-16-21	The Collision Course of Databricks and Snowflake
11-12-21	A Browser for Developers
11-11-21	How to Beat Google Search
11-08-21	PQLs
11-03-21	Commodity SaaS
11-02-21	Niche Communities
10-29-21	Founder Vision
10-28-21	Technical Wedges
10-16-21	Top-Down JAMStack vs. Cloud
10-15-21	The GitLab Upgrade
10-11-21	Calculating SaaS Retention
10-08-21	Open Source Reckoning
10-04-21	Sales Compensation at GitLab
10-02-21	Egregious Egress and Disruption
10-01-21	The Puzzling Corporate Archaeology of MIPS
09-29-21	Extending Applications with WebAssembly
09-27-21	Go-to-market Strategy
09-24-21	Commoditizing Your Complements in the Cloud Era
09-23-21	A Public Public Company
09-22-21	The Unbundling of the Software Developer
09-20-21	Thinking Like a Contrarian With Counter-Positioning
09-19-21	Remote Developer Environments are Cool Again (Kind of)
09-14-21	Email is Back in Vogue
09-13-21	Net Dollar Retention
09-08-21	The Mother of All Demos
09-06-21	The Rule of 40
09-05-21	Tools as Code
09-03-21	Product-Led Sales Efficiency at GitLab
08-30-21	SaaS Isolation Patterns
08-24-21	What Low-Code Lacks
08-20-21	Potential Energy in Startups
08-18-21	Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
08-14-21	Cheap and Expensive
08-13-21	Non-Consensus Right
08-05-21	Unexpected Developer Trends
08-04-21	Real Options Valuation
08-01-21	Economics of Bundling and Unbundling
07-31-21	Limiting Steps
07-25-21	The IKEA Effect in Software Development
07-24-21	Why The Dow Jones is a Lousy Index
07-20-21	Open-Source and Firm-Specific Training
07-16-21	A History of 'Welcome, seriously' Ads
07-15-21	A Personal Internet
07-11-21	JEDI Mind Tricks
07-09-21	Avoiding People at Work
07-06-21	Dynamics of Switching Costs
07-05-21	High-Velocity Decision-Making
07-01-21	What is MicroSaaS?
06-29-21	Steven P. Jobs and Pixar Employees Buy Pixar
06-25-21	Foundational Products
06-24-21	How Startups Grew by Platform Hacking
06-23-21	Live Programming
06-20-21	Platform Advantage: Velocity
06-19-21	The End of Per-node Pricing
06-18-21	Software Wants to be Simple
06-16-21	Everything is a Browser
06-13-21	Asynchronous Communication
06-12-21	The Post-Modern Web
06-11-21	Why Developers Will Win the Creator Economy
06-10-21	Build a Team of Rivals
06-09-21	Comparative Advantage and Why PMs Shouldn't Write SQL Queries
06-08-21	The Case For XCode Cloud
06-06-21	Getting to Market With Rails
06-05-21	The Developer Economy
06-04-21	APIs Will Disrupt Rpa. This Is Obvious to Engineers.
06-03-21	Organic Cloud Infrastructure
06-02-21	Usage or Subscription Pricing
05-31-21	Inorganic Growth at Zynga
05-29-21	What's Measured Gets Managed
05-28-21	Why Do Companies That Sell APIs Have Such Low Churn Rates?
12-11-20	Sales Calculus, Part 1: Scaling
07-05-20	The Negative Operating Cycle
10-08-18	Offline is a Feature, Not a Product