The Season of Systems is the (long overdue) follow-up to Season of Rhythm. A lot of this season is focused around developing both personal systems — organizing longer-running tasks, refining how I collect everything I need to do on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis — along with professional systems for staying on top of the many AI systems that have grown out over the past year.
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Recent Posts
Software Gardening
— Garden-inspired development as a non-sinister, people-centric way to think about post-LLM software development
Security Alert: Softlock and ACE via Natural Language Overload
— I think I’ve found a pretty large CVE that has gone without a formal report, despite absolutely saturating the field of software engineering. It’s subtle and…
Working with Valves: Understanding the Structure of "Flat" Organizations .pdf
— Many an engineer has heard tales of Valve's "flat" organization structure — what is fact, what is fiction, and how does it actually work? An annotated copy of the 2012 First Edition of Valve's Employee Handbook.
It's All Graphs, Dummy .pdf
— Our lives are all dominated by a little graph in our hearts — and sometimes, that graph gets wacky. A review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Theory of Stupidity", part of his larger ~1943-1945 work "Letters and Papers from Prison."
Quartz Widgets: Graphs, Galore!
— I killed 4 of my blogs trying to implement MDX support. Will this one be next? Using MDX with Quartz to create interactive graphs, diagrams, and demos — clear as day.
Intro to Event Storming
— Notes from learning Event Storming for domain-driven design. Thoughts on phases, color-coded chaos, and how to transition from fast pitches to full products.
AI Policy
— I may not have any control about how AI affects me, but I can at least make a policy for how I use it.
Kickoff: Season of Systems
— I'm learning to live with the systems that stole my beloved em-dash. A season dedicated to negotiating how to live with the agentic models that have turned my career upside-down.
Core Posts
Software Gardening
— Garden-inspired development as a non-sinister, people-centric way to think about post-LLM software development
AI Policy
— I may not have any control about how AI affects me, but I can at least make a policy for how I use it.
Security Alert: Softlock and ACE via Natural Language Overload
— I think I’ve found a pretty large CVE that has gone without a formal report, despite absolutely saturating the field of software engineering. It’s subtle and…
Working with Valves: Understanding the Structure of "Flat" Organizations .pdf
— Many an engineer has heard tales of Valve's "flat" organization structure — what is fact, what is fiction, and how does it actually work? An annotated copy of the 2012 First Edition of Valve's Employee Handbook.
Quartz Widgets: Graphs, Galore!
— I killed 4 of my blogs trying to implement MDX support. Will this one be next? Using MDX with Quartz to create interactive graphs, diagrams, and demos — clear as day.
Kickoff: Season of Systems
— I'm learning to live with the systems that stole my beloved em-dash. A season dedicated to negotiating how to live with the agentic models that have turned my career upside-down.