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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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.
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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.