Writing
Journal
Articles drawn from my daily entries. 9 in total.
- Looking, not reading the code Sep 2026 · 1 min A week of redesigning this site taught one habit: render it, measure it, and look at it before believing it works.
- A line that wasn't Seneca's Sep 2026 · 1 min A quote I brought to discuss turned out to be misattributed. The idea was still worth thinking about.
- Three questions, cold Sep 2026 · 1 min Explaining idempotency from memory: what problem it solves, how it works, what breaks without it. The third one took longest.
- A dependency that was already dead Sep 2026 · 1 min Building guest comments on a service that turned out to be shut down, and what checking instead of trusting looked like.
- Eleven laws, noticed, not applied Sep 2026 · 1 min A list of rules of thumb, recorded before I'd used any of them, and the two that stood out on first contact.
- Felt before understood Sep 2026 · 1 min Reading about an old mismatch between how we're built and how we live, and noticing I'd already acted on it before I had the words.
- The bugs the tests didn't catch Sep 2026 · 1 min Two real bugs in Routine Machine, both found by running the system by hand, not by the test suite.
- A gap worth testing Sep 2026 · 1 min Noticing the difference between knowing something and being able to explain it on demand.
- The test result Sep 2026 · 1 min Running the retrieval test for real, against database indexing, and getting an answer that wasn't the one expected.