Writing / Field notes

Notes from inside
the machine.

Software, systems, games, art, and the long process of making things understandable.

Branching work converging on a shared coordination point

Git Is Distributed. Our Workflows Aren’t.

What a GitHub outage, agentic development, and Dolt reveal about the next boundary of version control.

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Blue and green Kubernetes stacks connected by a traffic controller

CoupangBlueGreen

8 min
A media title moving through analysis, planning, encoding, and publication

Encoding Peacock at Library Scale

9 min
A Go service connected through native bindings to a Solace event broker

Giving Solace a Go Voice

5 min
Plasma Snakes on its neon grid

Three Hours, Two Renderers, One Plasma Snake

7 min
The Feedback Form Builder interface

The Form Builder Before State-Driven UI Became the Default

7 min
Aman Singh presenting at Capgemini Business Priority Week in 2015

Five Minutes in Paris

8 min
The original Square City Babylon.js world

Squares Mean a World to Us

9 min