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Mar 8, 2026
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The half-life of technical knowledge in this field is short.
Mar 1, 2026
Code review is conflict management with a technical object in the middle.
Feb 22, 2026
Attention degrades over the course of the day.
Feb 15, 2026
Every collection encodes a theory of what matters.
Feb 8, 2026
The newsletter is email with intentionality.
Feb 1, 2026
The library is an information retrieval system built around a specific access pattern.
Jan 25, 2026
People have been thinking in systems since before the vocabulary existed.
Jan 18, 2026
The screen shows you something that doesn't exist.
Jan 11, 2026
The LLM hallucinates. This is not a bug in the traditional sense.
Jan 4, 2026
The migration file is a time capsule.
Dec 28, 2025
The garbage collector frees memory that is no longer reachable.
Dec 21, 2025
Undefined behavior is the boogeyman of systems programming.
Dec 14, 2025
A network protocol is a formal agreement between parties about how to communicate.
Dec 7, 2025
When you move to the cloud, you're not moving to a neutral platform.
Nov 30, 2025
Computers are better at parallelism than humans. Humans are not parallel systems.
Nov 23, 2025
Oral traditions maintained complex information across many generations without writing.
Nov 16, 2025
The Industrial Revolution was, at its core, a change in the underlying platform.
Nov 9, 2025
The Roman road network is still in use.
Nov 2, 2025
Every map is a model. Every model is wrong. Some are useful.
Oct 26, 2025
History is a git repository where all the branches happened simultaneously.
Oct 19, 2025
Russian literature does not believe in tidy resolutions.
Oct 12, 2025
The poem is an interface between what the writer experienced and what the reader can experience.
Oct 5, 2025
American literature is obsessed with reinvention and the blank slate.
Sep 28, 2025
The programmer's first impulse is to say that code is not writing.
Sep 21, 2025
The best software architecture education I received came from video games.
