the steam fit the clock
The answer is a smoke alarm. It sounded once, at 3417 Hz for 0.87 seconds, at 00:11:05, about two metres from the Room A camera. It was not a fire, not carbon monoxide and not a dying battery. It was a horn that went off once and stopped.
run the full test suite
Published as an experiment. A research program ran on this question for two weeks and then got told to stop and hand over what it had. This is the article …
also: Where the Sandbox Ends · the sandbox and the wall · the right to pull the plug
the solvent that is not consumed
Part two of four in “into solution,” on what software does to a problem when you take the word literally. Each part stands alone. “Software is …
also: how to audit an argument you didn't make · prove it with the code · before it meant an answer
the multi-organization problem
Ten years of short posts were circling one object: a person who belongs to many organizations at once, with tools that assume one and methods that assume a task. Here is the theory in one place, what three fields and forty years of software actually know about it, whether anyone has solved it, and what a solution needs.
also: the room that forgot what it was for · eleven minutes and four seconds · a root to stand on
three games to sell one
Entry three of three in “the dimension problem.” Part one builds the vocabulary; part two runs it against the remake business. This one spends all …
also: the unremade · the dimension is the genre · the strong start on sunday
The Convergence Tax
When competitors independently arrive at the same abstractions, the abstraction is telling you something about the territory — not the map.
also: The Gigawatt Problem
