Sym·poly·mathesy

Don’t Conflate Intelligence with Value↩︎—❈ (July 3, 2025)

In Christianity Today’s July/August 2025 issue on artificial intelligence.

Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software (May 13, 2025)

My LambdaConf 2025 Opening Keynote

StaffPlus NY 2024: Substrate Engineering (September 9, 2024)

Engineering Foundations in a World of LLMs

Seeing Like a Programmer (LambdaConf 2024) (May 7, 2024)

Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards in Software Engineering

jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023)

What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.

Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight – Live Recording! ↩︎—❈ (March 31, 2023)

Last summer, I hired the Budapest Scoring Orchestra and recorded my fanfare. And now: you can listen to the recording!

Sony α7 4K60 and APS-C Crop (November 29, 2025)

“This operation or setting not available as follows: Rec Frame Rate: 60p”

True Myth 9.3.0↩︎—❈ (November 25, 2025)

A new inspect method, some bug fixes, and some documentation fixes.

Espresso from Cinchona at Provision Bread & Bakery (October 26, 2025)

J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (October 15, 2025)

Not, perhaps, so over-bold a claim as it might have seemed when first advanced!

Context and Trust, or: Test Suites Reflect Teams (September 21, 2025)

A mild rejoinder to Brandur’s recent mini-rant on testing speed, and a meditation on scaling groups of people and products.

jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023)

What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.

Whither Gradual Typing? (started July 29, 2023)

Thinking out loud prompted by recent comments from Richard Feldman and Jamie Brandon.

Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening (started January 13, 2023; updated March 29, 2023)

—at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.

True Myth 9.1.0: Standard Schema and More! (August 24, 2025; updated November 30, 2025)

Doing my best to keep making True Myth more useful in more places.

2025 Colfax Marathon Race Report (May 18, 2025; updated June 4, 2025)

I ran my first marathon today! It went great!

Real Essentialism (November 24, 2024; updated January 23, 2025)

A(n attempted/asserted) defense of Aristotelian metaphysics.

jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023; updated September 9, 2024)

What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.

Motel Guest’s Only (April 3, 2021; updated April 6, 2021)

New Mexico Vacation, Day 1: An overflow lot in Las Vegas, New Mexico