The promise behind the site
A site is only as good as the process behind it. Here is ours for everyday technology and software, written plainly so you can weigh the rest of the site against it.
Standards
The route every article on 4465456.com takes from idea to publication, and what we refuse to publish.
A site is only as good as the process behind it. Here is ours for everyday technology and software, written plainly so you can weigh the rest of the site against it.
Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.
The writer starts by getting everything down, then goes back and marks anything they could not defend if pushed. Those marks are resolved one by one, against a source or from experience, and whatever cannot be resolved is deleted rather than softened. A second reader then goes looking only for false certainty.
A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.
Some links on this site are commercial. They never buy a rewrite of the surrounding paragraph.
We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.
You can always see who wrote a page and what else they have put their name to. That traceability is deliberate, and it is why nothing here goes out unsigned.
Nathan Cole, Founder and tech editor. Nathan spent a decade writing for print technology publications before moving online. He never reviews something he has not lived with for at least a week, and he has strong opinions about benchmark methodology.
Lena Marsh, Software and AI writer. Lena came from UX research and thinks more about whether software is actually useful than whether it is technically impressive. She writes about apps, workflows and the slow creep of feature bloat.
Eli Tran, Hardware and security writer. Eli spent years in IT support before moving to writing. He explains specs the way he wishes someone had explained them to him: without the marketing language and with an honest answer about whether it matters.
Write to info@4465456.com with the page address and what is wrong. Factual errors are fixed quickly. If the correction changes the conclusion of a piece, we add a short note at the foot of the page rather than quietly editing it.