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Virtual reality was hot about five years ago. The Oculus, then the HTC Vive, made virtual reality experiences close to plug-and-play on moderately powerful Windows personal computers. Further, Unity and the SteamVR platform introduced programmers to developing tools that put the user inside the s... Read More

Zoom has the power to anti-scale. We can bring the best, most intimate peer support to ever-more-specialized interest groups. Best practices emulate the smallest meetups to build trust and connection at a distance. The communities that drive the most outstanding value will stay small and focused ... Read More

A specter is haunting venture capital - the specter of blue-collar coders. All the powers of Silicon Valley have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Apple and Google, Sand Hill Road and Wall Street, sketchy boot camps, and gatekeeping hiring managers. All joking a... Read More

No-code gets a lot of ink as a revolution in how we all can build. I think of it more incrementally and in the context of jobs and demographics that I have discussed elsewhere. But to think of it incrementally is to think of a spectrum of tooling, and that requires analysis beyond just how friend... Read More

Patrick McKenzie often exhorts micro-ISVs and the like to "raise your prices. And he's right for many. I see technologists underprice themselves all over the place. Heck, I've been guilty of that too. <... Read More