Systems: Week 8

APL: Pattern 4; Agricultural Valleys

Feb 08, 2026 — Urban development has the high ground over agricultural and ecological preservation — and it should! *A Pattern Language* annotations on Pattern 4: Agricultural Valleys

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• #the-neighborhood
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APL: Pattern 5; Lace of Country Streets

Feb 08, 2026 — How dense is too dense? How sparse is too sparse? Annotations for A Pattern Language's proposals for the density of metro-adjacent country streets for agriculture, recreation, and preservation.

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• #the-neighborhood
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• #annotations

APL: Pattern 1; Independent Regions

Feb 07, 2026 — Home isn't where the heart is — it's a single node on a very, very large graph. Annotations for the "Independent Regions" pattern of *A Pattern Language*.

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APL: Pattern 2; The Distribution of Towns

Feb 07, 2026 — How close is too close? How far is too far? *A Pattern Language* annotations related to the statistical, economic, and ecologic concerns in balancing how dense human habitats ought to be.

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• #the-neighborhood
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APL: Pattern 3; City Country Fingers

Feb 07, 2026 — City, with natural stripes — or nature, with city stripes? Annotations for A Pattern Language, and tracking public opinion of where Americans want to live over the past 50 years.

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• #a-pattern-language
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APL: Pattern 0; Introduction

Feb 05, 2026 — Can graphs be libertarian? Authoritarian? Annotations for the introductory portion of the 1977 book A Pattern Language.

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Privacy Policy

Feb 04, 2026 — When it comes to collecting data, there's a fine line between making a good site and making an invasive product. To make this site more useful, I want to collect enough data to improve, but never enough to undermine anybody's privacy.

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• #site
• #notes

Ants in the Neighborhood

Feb 02, 2026 — Is Jane Street run by soccer-loving ants? Inconclusive. We *can* conclude that they're fans of Markov Chains, though — an invaluable tool for understanding complex data structures.

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• #a-pattern-language
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A Pattern Language, and a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Feb 01, 2026 — The beginning of a topological review of the 1977 urban design and architecture reference book A Pattern Language, and a journey to understand Earth's greatest graph: the Earth, itself.

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#a-pattern-language

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#engineering

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