Archive - FREST Substack

First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in…

Jun 26 •

January 2025

Composition to the Rescue

Typical software architecture is driven by absolutely terrible economic incentives to be the brittle mess it is today. There is another way.

Jan 16 •

July 2024

Islands in a sea of state.

Jul 14, 2024 •

August 2023

Why now? So What?

Sequoia founder Don Valentine famously asked founders: “Why now?” and “So what?”

Aug 17, 2023 •

RESTful presentation

An elegant tool, for a more civilised age

Aug 16, 2023 •

A private space for us to converse and connect

Aug 16, 2023 •

April 2023

How the CIA Ruined Programming

We’re only just now starting to recover. And we have a long way to go.

Apr 5, 2023 •

March 2023

FREST is simpler computing for ordinary folks and programmers alike.

Mar 8, 2023 •

February 2023

Distributed == Relational

Perhaps surprisingly, distributed systems are naturally relational

Feb 21, 2023 •

Welcome to FREST!

Computing for everyone

Feb 18, 2023 •

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