The Urbit Systems Technical Journal publishes articles on the ongoing development of Urbit and on solid-state computing more generally. Like the famous Bell Labs Technical Journal on which it is modeled, the Urbit Systems Technical Journal aims to document the engineering work necessary to realize the vision of computing as sovereign, deterministic, and grounded on solid first principles.
In so doing, we hope that these technical problems come to interest and benefit the broader developer community. Functional (as in programming) engineers are often on the leading edge of software development, and the solutions they undertake have required large-scale innovations in the field of computer science generally.
We welcome submissions from those engaged in making computing more solid-state.
USTJ's sponsors have included Urbit Foundation (founding sponsor, 2024) and Groundwire Foundation (2025–present).