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An interview with Tony Fadell about the iPod, iPhone, Apple’s history with Samsung, Nest, the future of ARM, and his new book “Build”.

I spent a few weeks reading Ray Dalio's Principles and summarising the contents. This is the end, in which I take a final stab at contextualising the book.

Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers do to ensure small bugs don't take down systems.

Today, about 90% of public SaaS companies and the 2019 Forbes Cloud 100 have subscription-based revenue models. Now new fintech infrastructure companies have made it possible for SaaS businesses to add financial services alongside their core software product. By adding …

The market has taken a downturn, and every other blog or tweetstorm seems to offer the same general advice: conserve cash, extend runway, shift from focusing on growth to focusing on efficiency. We’ve advised many of our later stage growth …

Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.

Lifting a graph structure out of Python bytecode

A set of recommendations to make publishing a Javascript library that uses Wasm internally easier for application developers. There are a significant number of use cases and edge cases that we’ll code around as we try and cater to several types of developers: from those who may not know or care about Wasm and the broader JS ecosystem, to more experienced developers who want to optimize every last drop.

An explanation of monads in disguise

When to use generics when writing Go code, and when not to use them.

Cohesion is part of the low coupling, high cohesion principle that’s supposed to keep your code maintainable. While low coupling means few dependencies, high cohesion roughly translates to single responsibility. Highly cohesive code (a module or a function) is focused on a single purpose. Low cohesion means it does many unrelated things. I’ve written about coupling in the previous article on anti-patterns. Here are some tips on increasing cohesion in Go applications using the recently released generics.

Dockerfiles are a constant source of frustration in the container ecosystem. First, they are difficult to write (well). They can't express all types of build graphs – only linear graphs are easily expressible, limiting the amount of parallelism one can do (i.e., how fast your builds can be). Finally, they are difficult to natively integrate into build systems – passing well-known build arguments, environment variables, and other build-time variables. But what if we could easily define docker bu

The person who tells the most compelling story wins.

Faster JSON handling in a relational database.

Husky is an unbundled, distributed, schemaless, vectorized column store. Here's how we built it—and why.

The history of credit cards helps explain why Plaid is valuable to Visa, and how Visa can make it significantly better.

From CTO to unemployed overnight - what now?

Zero Trust Networking is security with Internet assumptions; there is tremendous value if we apply the same approach to information.

OS X is retired, but fortunately, its legacy appears to live on in macOS 11.0.

The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms

Explaining exactly why Apple’s approach to ATT is anti-competitive

Sequoia’s transformation of its venture capital model is actually a shift from financial capital to productive capital

This paper was originally written in 2010 for a Corporate Innovation class at Kellogg Business School, and thus predates Stratechery by several years.

Facebook and Google and other advertising businesses are data factories, and regulation will be most effective if it lets users look inside

Meta’s metaverse approach, from chips to operating systems to business models, evinces a lack of strategy.

Apple’s spring event was a mishmash of products around a unified message about the power of Apple Silicon.

It took a few moments to realize what was striking about the opening video for Nvidia’s GTC conference: the complete absence of humans. That the video ended with Jensen Huang, the founder and…

How the experiences on the Web evolved influenced by Web frameworks, and what's next for the Web and me.