From the workshop.

Short essays on the thinking behind the buddycore projects — why the tools work the way they do, what building them taught me, and the occasional opinion about making things independently.

• Why teams estimate relatively — and why they hide their cards
  Story points, the anchoring effect, and the one mechanic that keeps estimates honest.
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• Choosing an estimation scale: Fibonacci, T-shirts, or five fingers?
  Eleven card decks exist for a reason. A field guide to picking the right one.
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• Building BESTIMATE: rooms that delete themselves
  Privacy by design in practice — why the best place to store user data is nowhere.
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• Honest dice: real physics in the browser
  Why Fate's Throw simulates every tumble instead of picking a random number.
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• Independent by design
  What running a one-person label across music, software and stories actually means.
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