#annotations

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    Occasionally, the notes on this site will be annotative notes on other folks’ works that I find interesting. Whenever possible, I’ll make these annotations public, especially when the sources are publicly available.

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    • Agentic Programming as Theory Building

      — Do humans have a role in software development anymore? Absolutely — but we need to rethink what it means to program. An modern review of Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

    • APL: Pattern 4; Agricultural Valleys

      — Urban development has the high ground over agricultural and ecological preservation — and it should! *A Pattern Language* annotations on Pattern 4: Agricultural Valleys (2 min read)

    • APL: Pattern 5; Lace of Country Streets

      — 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. (3 min read)

    • APL: Pattern 1; Independent Regions

      — 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*. (10 min read)

    • APL: Pattern 2; The Distribution of Towns

      — 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. (5 min read)

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    • APL: Pattern 3; City Country Fingers

      — 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. (4 min read)

    • APL: Pattern 0; Introduction

      — Can graphs be libertarian? Authoritarian? Annotations for the introductory portion of the 1977 book A Pattern Language. (9 min read)

    • Ants in the Neighborhood

      — 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. (1 min read)

    • A Pattern Language, and a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

      — 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. (12 min read)

    • Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow

      — Annotations for Greiner's 1972 paper "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow", about the structural composition of organizations at different sizes and requirements.

    • 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. (6 min read)

    • LLMs: A Primer Presentation for Our Newest, Scariest Tool

      — An engineer-focused primer on the mechanisms that drive Large Language Models. Basics on how we got here, how they work, and how to use them without feeling an apocalyptic dread.

    • Terraform LocalStack Testing

      — $70/mo/seat? Just using live AWS may be cheaper. An evaluation of LocalStack as a testbed for Account Factory Terraform. (5 min read)

    • The Simple Economics of Open Source

      — Why do we do what we do? "Egoboo." Exploring economic models of OSS contributions beyond altruism and ego.

    • College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage

      — A dive into the hottest algorithm of the 1960s: Gale-Shapley matchmaking. Who knew that the mysteries of the heart could be solved with a matrix?

    • Utah Office Consult

      — People problems are the hardest engineering problems. A consult on thinking out-of-the-box to explain morale problems in small companies.

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