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Long-form writing on AI products, engineering craft, and the economics of building. Opinionated, sourced from our own work.
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The Signal
We document the craft of building. Work from the Lab, Agency, and Foundry becomes first-hand essays and technical field notes, with audio planned for later.
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Publishing sharpens the research, attracts the clients, and builds the audience every Foundry launch inherits on day one. The Signal is not a marketing department. It is distribution as infrastructure.
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Field Notes
Short, technical breakdowns straight from the work: what we tried, what broke, and what we would do differently.
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Conversations with operators, researchers, and founders about what building actually looks like from the inside.
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Essays and field notes
Browse first-hand writing from Devzilla engineering, research, and product work. Filter the archive by publication format and the system topic it examines.
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A Bounding Box Is Not California
How Earthquake Watch uses a state polygon to keep neighboring Nevada, Oregon, and Baja California events out of a California publication.
- Geospatial
- Data Engineering
- Publishing
The Twelve-Gigabyte Map We Did Not Deploy
Why the UFO disclosure map bundles stable images while leaving government documents, video, and audio on their primary hosts.
- Geospatial
- Deployment
- Public Data
From Permit Rows to a Focused Publication
The source, records, and rendering decisions behind SF Building Permits, a publication built over San Francisco OpenData.
- Data Engineering
- Publishing
- Public Data
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