WIP Coupling Language and Geography - May 2025

Historical linguistics has a lot to teach us about API/DSL design. While a decades old codebase may be a crime scene, human languages have endured magnitudes more churn!

Deliberate Practice for Developers - Mar 2024

Athletes and fighters go to the gym, how do zen software monks work out?

Software Architecture Today - Jan 2024

tl;dr: Our architecture (software) is about the boundaries between, not the things themselves.

Design Docs - Jul 2023

Oxide

Oxide has very interesting Requests for Discussion which seem just right.

Architecting Observability - May 2023

tl;dr: 10 construction workers stand and watch one man dig a hole, that’s the cloud today!

The Customer is Always Wrong - Jun 2021

How many times have you thought or heard: “What if there were a tool so powerful you could write your specifications in it, it would make them happen?” Well… That’s what a programming languageis! “No, no. I mean in human language, for real people!” Well, that’s COBOL!