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Essays and notes, each with a picture.
The Tower of BabelBruegel, 1563
Code Comprehension in the Age of AI
To keep AI-generated code understandable, make only changes you can explain and maintain a short map of the system's architecture.
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The School of Athens · Raphael, 1511
What We Lose When We Build Alone
AI can help one person ship more, but it cannot replace the ideas, feedback, and learning that come from building with a team.
Imprimerie en Lettres, Plate I · Goussier, 1769
Aligning Go struct fields to save memory
Field order creates padding in Go structs; the right tools can find the waste and show how much memory reordering would save.
The Geographer · Vermeer, 1669
Building a Personal Knowledge System with Obsidian
I organize notes in Obsidian with links, Dataview, lightweight structure, and a simple daily workflow.
Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid · Vermeer, 1670–1671
Dual-Writes and the Outbox Pattern
The transactional outbox stores business data and pending events in one transaction, then publishes the events asynchronously.
Allegory of the First Partition of Poland · Le Mire, 1773
Cooperation Without Dependency
Europe and other democracies need sovereign digital infrastructure that can withstand geopolitical disruption while remaining interoperable.
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Fable of the Hare and the Tortoise · Snyders, 17th century
Hasten Slowly in Software Development
Ayame Plays Go with Murasaki Daijin · Kunisada, 1852
Go Interfaces: Five Best-Practices for Enhanced Code Maintainability
Garland of Flowers and Fruit with a Portrait of William III · de Heem, c. 1670
Enhancing Data Access with the Decorator Pattern in Go
Darwin's Finches · Gould, 1845
A Beginner's Guide to Semantic Versioning
Typus Arithmeticae · Reisch, 1503
Understanding Zero Values in Go
