Writing Topics
Browse articles by subject area. Each topic hub collects related writing — featured, latest, and the complete chronological archive.
Emerging software and AI
Applied AI uses artificial intelligence for purposeful human work — personal, creative, exploratory, educational, or professional — while keeping human judgement and control in view.
Building software products
How WriteDaily and WordFloor were built and what the data taught. User research, privacy-first design, migration decisions, habit mechanics, and 13 years of keeping a daily writing product running.
Technology leadership and software delivery
Software delivery grounded in decades of building across games, eCommerce, and SaaS. Architecture, infrastructure, CI/CD, migrations, engineering leadership, testing, quality, and technical due diligence.
Games industry archive
Historical game development writing: production, design, career progression, studio culture, and marketing during the console and PC era. These are archival records — context belongs to their time, not the present.
Search and digital discovery
How search engines and product surfaces find, rank, and present pages or products — crawling, indexing, content architecture, paid and organic search, link relationships, and how discoverability has shifted from classic SEO to modern AI-assisted retrieval.
