Volumes

VOL. 8

Down to the Floor

A queue, a picking route, a shift handover, a till with the network gone. Ten field tools on what a screen has to survive when it stands where a person stands.

15 articles

VOL. 7

Only What Runs Gets Published

Six pieces on a server becoming an app, two real boards, and the earlier claims paid back in code. From this month on, nothing runs in the magazine that did not run on a machine.

15 articles

VOL. 6

The Age of Domain Experts

For a long time the domain expert was in back, the developer in front. When the screen becomes one axis, the order flips — the one who knows what to make stands in front.

5 articles

VOL. 5

Experience Compounds

Hand it down as notes and it stops at what you knew. Left in the same shape, experience grows — facts to skill, skill to prediction — across generations.

6 articles

VOL. 4

Every Server Is an App

When a server defines the screen too, it is an app in itself. But an open surface needs as much boundary — the inviolable is kept by the absence of a tool.

6 articles

VOL. 3

The Foundation Is Already There

Making a tool isn't starting from bare ground. Most already hold the hard foundation; what's missing is just one axis — the screen.

7 articles

VOL. 2

Beyond Compiling

Compiling freezes the decision called "the screen" into the device. Take that ice out of the screen layer, and more people — on chips and in fields — can touch it.

6 articles

VOL. 1

The Age of Install-less Apps

The build-review-install-update chain disappears. The server becomes the app.

5 articles