Recent Writing

• Also, Today: Four Projects on My Desk — Overlore, Oyl, YAML 2.0, and C0DATA.
• Helm’s Big Index Problem — Publishing package metadata at scale.
• A Quarter Inch
• The Other Half of the Holodeck — Inventing the world during play.

Selected Essays

• Code Identity — A Ruby experiment in generating different programs with the same output.
• The YADSL Rule — When a new language earns its learning cost.
• Directory Based Configuration — The practical trade-offs of one file per setting.
• Configuration Rodeo — Finding, organizing, and sharing tool settings.
• Crossing the Assets Divide — Old content, current presentation, and the assets between them.
• Peanut Butter and Chocolate Handlebars — Giving view logic a useful home.
• Permutation Arrays — Encoding collection order as a number, with implementations and measured trade-offs.
• Countdown to the Singularity — A hardware-growth extrapolation from a neuronal simulation.

Older Writing

Browse the archive for earlier experiments, project notes, and essays.