One person. Prateek Zare, an independent software developer based in Berlin, who also builds and maintains every tool on the site. There is no content team and nothing is outsourced, which is the main reason the posts stay tied to problems that actually came up rather than to a keyword list. More on the about page.

Mostly from email. Somebody describes an evening they lost to a problem, and if the explanation they needed does not exist anywhere decent, it becomes a post. The rest comes from questions that keep arriving about a specific tool, which usually means the tool page is not explaining itself well enough.

Not for most of them. Categories such as finance, health, dates and maths are written for anyone. Developer, security and network posts assume more, but each one states its assumptions at the top rather than letting you discover them halfway through.

They are drafted and edited by a human who has done the thing being described. Where a tool result or a code sample appears, it has been run rather than imagined, and where a standard is cited it has been read. That is the bar, and if a post ever falls short of it, tell us and it gets fixed.

Directly. Almost every post is anchored to one or more of the free tools, and links to them at the point where you would want to try the idea yourself. The tool gives you the answer, the post tells you whether the answer means what you think it means.

Short quotes with a link back are welcome and no permission is needed. For anything longer, or for translation or syndication, email [email protected] first. The tool output itself is a different matter and is entirely yours, with no attribution required.

Most weeks, without a fixed schedule. Existing posts also get corrected and updated when something changes, and a post that is materially out of date is either fixed or removed rather than left to quietly mislead people.