Bethany Janos 
Brittany Ellich 
Eggyhead (Erika) 
Jonathan Tamsut (Former Host) Root Cause
Tell us something you've accepted as just how software works, and we'll dig into why it's actually like that: the history, the tradeoff, the decision nobody remembers making. When the cause is genuinely disputed, we each take a theory, test it, and report what we found.
What makes a good one
- The best submissions are things everyone has stopped questioning, not one-off bugs.
- Half-formed is fine. If you can't explain why it bugs you, that's usually a sign it's worth digging into.
- We close each one with what it teaches you about designing your own systems.
For example “Why does every codebase grow a utils file that turns into a junk drawer?”