A small studio making software, slowly.
Slow Delivery sounds like the opposite of what anyone wants. That is the point. The name is a quiet promise to myself, and a small argument with the world I work in.
For thirty-odd years I rushed. I started my career before I had even finished my degree, and kept running long after. Now I am learning my own pace, and I have found it is not a fast one. “Every day is all there is,” Joan Didion wrote. I would rather not hurry to the end of a life but savor the length of it.
The word is a nod to Kiki's Delivery Service. A young witch leaves the only town she knows to find a path of her own. She makes a dear friend, loses her magic, and in time regains her magic and finds her happy place. I recognize that story. It is more or less my own: the leaving, the losing, the slow finding of the way back.
In tech, everyone wants fast delivery. I want, on purpose, to be the opposite of that story. I believe there is a gentler, more careful way to make technology, and to live alongside it. Software made without rushing. Built to last, and to be lived with.
The first of these is Fernsage. More will arrive, in their own time.