Ray’s Substack

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟯𝟬-𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲

I made a spatial search 10x faster.

Sep 22 • Ray Martone

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The Emperor’s New Code

The most misleading thing about an AI demo is that it works.

Sep 9 • Ray Martone

July 2026

The Chain

"Good artists copy.

Jul 23 • Ray Martone

No App Store Required

Architecture of the Next Wave

Jul 16 • Ray Martone

June 2026

The Gate Was Always the Channel

Beyond the App Store

Jun 29 • Ray Martone

Doors

Four breakthroughs that were never on the roadmap.

Jun 18 • Ray Martone

The Bet

The next Candy Crush won't ship from a team of 30

Jun 1 • Ray Martone

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May 2026

WANTED: Time Travelers

HR is looking for time travelers.

May 18 • Ray Martone

PlayLab

A quarter-million games over lunch

May 11 • Ray Martone

April 2026

The Wrong Thing Faster

The Mythical Man-Month, Now With AI

Apr 18 • Ray Martone

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The Resolution of Constraint

Reframing a visual disability as a specialized lens for interface design

Apr 8 • Ray Martone

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0:15

The Clean Exit and the Walking Corpse

I learned cloud infrastructure, keeping a walking corpse on its feet.

Apr 5 • Ray Martone