Somewhere between the conference circuit and the procurement office there's still a person who ships. That person is why software continues to feel like hope. This sample dispatch is a thank-you note to the builders — the ones who'd rather file a pull request than a discussion paper.
A magazine can say that the state should get out of the way without sneering at public servants as a class. The point is simpler. Permission culture is slow. Shipping culture is how a small country punches above its weight.
Australia's tech scene doesn't need another strategy document. It needs cheap power, sane spectrum, and a tax system that doesn't punish the second hire. The same is true in the United States, where the MAGA instinct to reindustrialise and the builder instinct to move fast aren't enemies.
Tesla is, among other things, a software company that happens to stamp aluminium. Covering it on the Tesla desk doesn't stop us covering the wider craft here: compilers, radios, payments, the boring pipes that make a civilisation convenient.
This piece is sample copy. Replace it when the real builders give you something to file. Until then, it stands as the house view: we're for the people who make.
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