Short, unfinished observations from engineering, product, and systems work — a notebook, not a publication.
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A WSL distro went blank after a routine disk move. The fix wasn't a repair — it was refusing to touch anything until 'is the data gone, or does it just look gone' had an answer.
Conway's Law isn't a curiosity about org charts. It's the reason half of your architecture review meetings are actually negotiations.
The tools are different — roadmaps instead of diagrams — but the underlying discipline of managing tradeoffs under constraints is the same.
Every time I reach for DuckDB out of convenience, it teaches me something about what a database actually is.
The hard part of connecting two systems is never the data format. It's deciding when two records are the same thing.
Every mapping layer that survives long enough stops being a translator and starts being an optimizer.