A walk in the park Oct 20 2025
Through tree’s leaves winds wind
Would the world be as soothing
euc’lyptus grove sighs
Through tree’s leaves winds wind
Would the world be as soothing
euc’lyptus grove sighs
For the last 18 months, I’ve been intermittently working on a project I call “production at home.” The initial motivation was to better understand the behavior of a web application running in a Platform As A Service (PAAS). Since I had very little...
I’ve been using Large Language Model (LLM) tools since 2023. The technology is fascinating, and using LLMs can be an amazing amount of fun (and occasionally extremely frustrating). I’ve taught myself a bit of gravitation by walking through Scharzchild...
Writing a LinkedIn recommendation should be considered a form of gratitude. While writing recommendations isn’t terribly difficult, taking the time to think through your thoughts will make for a much better recommendation. I find it gets easier with...
Here’s a follow on from Atomic and Minimal.
Atomic commits are the Single Responsibility Principle for changes. The notion that a change should consist of one thing and one thing only.
Keeping changes limited to a single notion provides the following...
What are the ABCs of creating art, or shipping product? Is there such a thing? Should there be, and if not why not?
Perusing my bookshelf recently, I came to some conclusions: 1. I will almost surely not read every book I own, even if I exclude reference...
Sometimes being incorrect, or even wrong, can be useful. For example, I’m pretty sure I’m using the word “precis” incorrectly here. I lack a better word. Invoking the Humpty Dumpty principle, let’s proceed.
The Precís template
Definition of Precis...
The goal of the “Main Learning” book review is to provide a single, execution-ready concept which the reader of the review can put into action. Different readers will have different notions of what constitutes a main, actionable learning, and that...
From time to time I’m called on to provide a brief biographical paragraph for one reason or another. Perhaps a conference presentation, an article, or company website. These requests always seem to occur at inconvenient times, when I have other really...
Here’s a handy template for job descriptions.
Writing job descriptions can be easy or hard depending on a number of factors. The main difficulty is likely specifying what someone in the role is expected to achieve. In other words, describing how the...
The Situation, Complication, Question, Answer (SCQA) structure was introduced and explained on a couple of pages of Barbara Minto’s classic book on corporate communication The Minto Pyramid Principle (page ?). Minto provides SCQA as a way to structure...