Ryan Singer, author of Shape Up, shares practical guidance on defining software before hiring developers, separating framing (choosing work and getting buy-in) from shaping (specifying mechanics for building). Issues include a primer on documenting business logic and a real-world end-to-end Shape Up case study.

Stale Plastic is a personal essay newsletter with first-person reflections on technology, corporate responsibility and everyday digital life, including a critique of Meta's leadership and a detailed account of using Tesla's Full Self-Driving. Each issue pairs a clear argumentative thread with concrete anecdotes and cultural references.

Essays on building software in real organisations, covering trust, ownership, feedback, and tradeoffs in engineering teams. It also includes occasional short link roundups, such as commentary on the costs of AI-assisted coding.

A personal blog-style newsletter covering software architecture, product strategy and the human side of building, told through first-person experience. Issues mix technical postmortems, such as backend-for-frontend auth struggles with Hono and Next.js, with reflective essays on resilience and learning.