Engineering, infrastructure, governance and the human consequences of technology. A public record with room for what worked, what did not, and what deserves a better question.
Genuine Group stories and the founder journey: connectivity that would not cooperate, infrastructure that consumed too much time, finding community and making technology work for real people.
8 articles
Group News ·
Today we’re publishing the latest iteration of the Alt Production Group website, bringing our engineering, infrastructure, research, investigations and cultural ventures together properly for the first time.
Founder Account ·
What fighting BT taught us about infrastructure, interoperability and why businesses shouldn't have to fight their connectivity to innovate
Founder Account ·
A short story about telephony, unexplained failure and knowing when infrastructure has consumed enough of your life
Founder Account ·
Our experience with OPNsense, operational complexity and the difference between powerful security and usable security
Founder Account ·
Buildathons, neurodivergent minds, founder panic and learning when to stop talking
Founder Account ·
Startup credits, neurodivergence and why handing somebody a thousand pages of documentation isn't support
Founder Account ·
Why Alt Production Group treats cognitive load, interruption and human variability as engineering inputs
Founder Account ·
Why we're building Alt Production Group here
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