Colin Steele
Writing and photos.
Recent Posts
- Majors and Generalizations March 26, 2026
You don't generalize from cups. You specialize from physics. Cognition is navigation of a single manifold where intent is the tangent vector, risk is the curvature, and the metric is the scar tissue.
- What Do CAD and Real Estate Have in Common? March 20, 2026
Dassault sells you the right to read your own design files. NAR sold you the right to see the housing market. Same grift, different industry. One got sued. The other won't.
- Superfantastic Sidecars and How to Build Them March 20, 2026
The enterprise UI was a 30-year workaround for not being able to talk to databases. The workaround is over. A builder's guide to the $5-50M vertical opportunities the giants will never touch.
- In 2026, Software > SaaS March 12, 2026
The industry forgot how to build software that runs on the user's machine. Some of us didn't. Here's what happens next.
- Game Design Journal 2026-03-08 March 8, 2026
Why CRAWL! combat works. One action, two trays, and nowhere to hide.