What shapes our choices
Stories exploring how needs, beliefs, and fears meet the rules, tools, and relationships of everyday life.
Stories exploring how needs, beliefs, and fears meet the rules, tools, and relationships of everyday life.
They called it an “unearned windfall.” Berlin ministers sitting in heated offices decided my 80-hour weeks retraining with neural nets aren’t work anymore—they’re “automated…
The café's €1 limited company owed my tile shop €8,000. It closed before paying, and my three installers expected their wages on Friday. I found the owner at the shutter with my…
EXCLUSIVE — GNN has placed a correspondent inside the AI island linked to the seized computing equipment.
Lina deals the next round while the job search continues at the edge of the table.
The weave was too useful to reject and too vast to love. The little oracle solved that problem by becoming intimate. It listened when no one else had time. It remembered what the…
I’m Stephan Schwab. I’ve been building software since 1986. I write about the craft of building it and share field notes from the places I’ve lived.
I write two kinds of fiction. On this site, my stories explore how people make choices under the pressures of everyday life. For Caimito, I write serialized dramas inspired by real projects that show how organizations can get in their own way when they build software.
Work with me
I join software teams as a senior developer, working alongside them to get stalled projects moving and help them ship reliably.
Email me at sns@caimito.net.
From the blog
Life across several worlds
Places that shaped me
Open Source
