a few words.
notes on software, and taking things apart.
2026 03 notes
nobody compliments a door ↗
no one has ever stopped in a doorway to praise a hinge. that silence is the best review a door can get, and it is the one i am after.
the pipeline was sized for fifty ↗
most of what we know is inherited. somebody solved a problem in 2011, wrote a library, and now a lot of us hold their opinion without remembering that it belonged to a person.
dimmer, not dead ↗
an oil lamp has about five parts and you can see all of them at once: a font of oil, a wick, a knob that raises the wick, a glass chimney, a flame. nothing is hidden. everything is serviceable with your hands and a rag.