essays

This is where the words have been ordered, then slowly baked into something coherent, sometimes sprinkled with wit and wisdom, but always with intent even if it’s not immediately apparent. For something more gentle on the stomach, see fieldnotes. For fluff see words.

The easiest (and laziest) way to keep up with all this is just to use RSS. Yes, it’s safe and boring and it works1.

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  1. There is a point in life when you realize that safe and boring and it works is the ultimate engineering flex. Sure, when you are young and enthusiastic and full of energy you embrace the whole move fast and break things, because it feels like you have achieved something. The reality is you are running around like Wile E. Coyote in a Warner Bros cartoon, and the Road Runner has outsmarted you, yet again. You become a senior engineer when you realize this, not when you have reached a simple five-year milestone. Anybody who considers themself a senior engineer just because they have reached that milestone is a shallow and vapid idiot who should never be let near a compiler. ↩︎