Software, like coffee, is too artificially cheap, and we need to make it more expensive. I have one suggestion for how to do that.
Software Bonkers
I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.
Software as Fast Fashion
Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]
Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.
The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
Sustainable software manifesto
The systems we build are never neutral. They can magnify harm or support a just and sustainable society. How we build today shapes tomorrow’s possibilities.
Prosperous Software Movement | Open Source Observer
Bringing sustainable funding to public goods by revenue-sharing towards dependencies
A Call to Build Models Like We Build Open-Source Software
1 Introduction 2 A brief explanation of open-source software development 3 Community-developed and continually-improved models 3.1 Incremental and cheaply-communicable updates 3.2 Merging models 3.3 Vetting community contributions 3.4 Versioning and backward compatibility 3.5 Modularity and distribution 4 An example future 5 Conclusion
Perfect Software - Software for an Audience of One
We have many names to describe personal tools. Malleable software speaks to how it behaves. Home-cooked software speaks to who makes it.
Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
This is part one of a two-part series on using AI tools as one piece to fight back against tech company control of our lives. Part two shares the details of how I built my own task management tool …
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
Tren Griffin on Twitter / X
Software isn't Ending.Hoping the expense of creating software creates pricing power has always been a triumph of hope over experience.If a software business doesn't have attributes like network effects that create pricing power, its life can be nasty, brutish and short. pic.twitter.com/yzTVAdG2xb— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) June 2, 2024
How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them
People spend too much time writing software relative to speaking to potential customers, prior to launching and after it. Reversing that is a win.
Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)
Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.
You have to beat the models at something
In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…
