Work that shipped.

Thirty-three numbered rules for putting a written boundary between the foundation of a product and everything on top of it. Every example on this page was built this way.

• A rulebook, a pull request checklist, and lint presets
• A tool that proves the boundary holds, in CI
• Free to adopt, with or without us

Sign-in, teams, permissions, billing, email, file storage, background jobs, backups, and an admin screen, built and tested once so every product we make starts with the boring parts already done. It is the foundation under our own products, and how we keep the promise that yours will survive its first customers.

• Sign-in, teams, roles, and billing out of the box
• Every outside service sits behind a swappable door
• Backups, reminders, and an audit trail built in, not bolted on

Turns a manuscript or a story idea into TV-style episodes and runs them on always-on channels. The writer brings the story. The engine handles scripts, casting, shots, and the schedule.

• Text becomes scripts, beats, and shots
• Cast AI actors and direct the performance
• Broadcasts around the clock to streaming channels

Give every company its own address and revoke it the day they misuse it. Your real inbox never leaves your hands. Steve has run his own email through it since 2019.

• Each alias accepts only the mail it should
• Nightly or weekly digests instead of a flood
• Encrypted throughout, privacy-first defaults

You define the interview once. It calls or emails each participant, asks the questions, and hands back summaries, reports, and the recordings. The system decides who is admitted, what consent is needed, and when an interview is complete. A personality only decides how it sounds.

• Phone, email, and web form from one interview definition
• Consent, admission, and completion owned by the system, not the script
• Recordings kept private, summaries and reports delivered

An open-source toolkit for community internet satellites: local Wi-Fi, a community portal, an offline library, and locally hosted services, all on one router. The first satellite runs in Vancouver, Washington. The definition of done is simple: pull the cord, and the portal still loads.

• Runs on one off-the-shelf router and a USB drive
• Offline library: Wikipedia, Gutenberg, iFixit, and more
• Open Wi-Fi, a walk-up welcome, nightly backups

Shaves text down to almost nothing, then hides it in an image. A whole book or document becomes one compact picture that travels through any channel that carries pictures. Built for Low Orbit.

• Compression plus pixel-packing
• If a channel carries images, it carries documents
• Each output is one Reduced Zipped Optical Record

You are a prisoner on a starbase, retelling your story to an interviewer: how you ended up in space, who came with you, what you brought. A failed takeover gets you and your people marooned on a paradise world. Survive, harvest, craft, research, build, then go back into cryo and wake to a colony that needs you, again and again, until the planet turns on you. Get a distress signal into space, take the ship that answers, and go find the one who left you there.

• Told in levels, each one a return from cryo to a changed colony
• Your gloved hand praises or punishes followers: pat, slap, grab, lift
• Survival first, then a ship, then revenge

It has one valid program, and the program is the word off. Run it and the computer shuts down. Most languages exist to make computers do more. This one lets one stop.

• The whole specification is one line
• Anything else is rejected as unnecessary complexity
• Contributions policy: no

A privacy-first way for people to warn others about possible COVID-19 contact, built around consent and minimal data instead of tracking.

• Warnings without identifying anyone
• No third-party tracking of any kind
• Light enough to survive a sudden spike