Writing / Field notes

Notes from inside
the machine.

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

A corroded machine sinking beneath a flood of decaying software and process cards

How Software Companies Die in the Age of A.I.

When implementation becomes cheap, judgment, ownership, and technical memory become the scarce resources.

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Fluid streamlines entering an opaque model boundary

Not Your Model, Not Your Research

11 min
Branching work converging on a shared coordination point

Git Is Distributed. Our Workflows Aren’t.

9 min
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
A.D.A.M. excavator telemetry on a dusty construction site

A.D.A.M.: Camera-Free Industrial Fleet Tracking

9 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
A bright fluid plume rising from a colorful nebula core

Stable Systems from Unsolved Mathematical Problems

7 min