Editorial standards

Sourcing

We grade sources into three tiers and use them for different jobs:

• Primary — the company blog, the paper, the changelog, the repository. Facts come from here.
• Reporting— established press. Used to corroborate and to add context we can’t get first-hand. Always cited and linked, never republished.
• Community— forums and social posts. Used to notice that something is happening. Never used to establish that it’s true.

Every article carries at least three cited sources including at least one primary source. This is enforced by the publishing system, not by good intentions.

Accuracy

Every factual claim is checked against its source by a person before publication. Where something is unconfirmed, we say it’s unconfirmed. Where we’re speculating, we label it speculation. Benchmarks are reported with their conditions attached, because a benchmark without conditions is marketing.

Corrections

We fix errors as soon as we know about them. Substantive corrections get a dated note in the article — we don’t silently rewrite history. Typos get fixed silently. If you spot something wrong, tell us.

Independence and advertising

• Ads are labelled as ads, everywhere, every time.
• No advertiser sees an article before it publishes, or influences what we conclude.
• We don’t publish sponsored content styled to look like editorial.
• Where a link earns us money, we say so in the article. If we recommend something, it’s because it’s the best answer, not the best-paying one.

Originality

We synthesise; we don’t rewrite. Every article draws on multiple sources and adds something of our own — a comparison, a timeline, a data point, an explanation of who’s affected. Reproducing someone else’s article with the words changed is not journalism, and we don’t do it.

AI

We use AI, we say so on every article, and we describe precisely how in how we work. The short version: it drafts, humans decide and check.

Pace

We cap how much we publish per day, deliberately. We’re not trying to be first, and we’re not trying to be everywhere. We’re trying to be worth reading.