Software

Software engineering notes: how systems work, how people build them, and the occasional MDX experiment.

Editorial cartoon: a man in a navy sweater reads a paperback in an armchair on a sunny porch, his phone face-down beside a cup of coffee. Through the window behind him, a giant glowing screen holds an endless stack of feed posts and a crowd of tiny people shouting and pointing. On a shelf in the foreground sits a glass jar labeled WAIT 24 HRS, full of crumpled paper.

Software

Sit On It

By David Crush | Software & Neurodivergence | 6 min read

Editorial cartoon: a worn Cast Member ID badge hangs on a wall hook beside eleven service-star pins and tally marks counting eleven years; below, a cardboard box holds packed desk belongings including a mug reading Be Kind to Every Mind, unless it needs accommodations, while an office door stands ajar on a theme-park skyline at dusk.

Series

Series · 1 parts

Eleven Years a Cast Member

A series about eleven years inside Disney technology: autistic burnout and denied accommodations, leadership that optimized for optics over results, and what it costs to be relied on while your basic needs are refused.

Editorial cartoon: a midnight line clutches empty retail boxes; an open box holds a slip labeled LICENSE, a PRE-ORDER sign glows orange, and a receipt is stamped REVOCABLE.

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Pre-Ordering Permission

By David Crush | Software | 3 min read

Editorial illustration: a person at a fork in a dirt road. Left path labeled TOOL leads to a lamp-lit desk with handwritten notes. Right path labeled AVERAGE leads to a black box printing identical gray text.

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Filling in the Blanks: What Anxiety Taught Me About AI

By David Crush | Software | 6 min read

Split editorial cartoon: a Buy Now button and I agree checkbox on the left; an empty library stamped REMOVED and a publicly funded stadium with a private profits vault on the right.

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They Can't Have It Both Ways: Sony, Disney+, Stadiums, and the License You Never Bought

By David Crush | Software | 12 min read