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This blog post pints to the fact that you need information across scales to make really insightful products and software. You need to understand fundamental mechanisms, strengths, …

My dream is, instead of separating data storage, state machines, valid state constraints, and the logic that transitions between valid states, we can actually unify these into some…

Why’s that?

In Taiwan the standard way to drink beer is to get it in large bottles, but shared with a small glass per person. Easy to not drink much that way, and promotes the social “let me f…

Given the atomization and layering of work, this has become much harder to truly judge. Ten years ago I was excited to join a customer feedback platform - what could be better than…

It seems that we have forgotten how to distinguish between value and profit, and now celebrate the latter instead of the former. Currency enables ever broader and more niche market…

I too am still investigating the space, but what's attractive to me about CPNs is that they can be both the specification and the implementation. How you describe the CPN in code m…

It is tempting to think that we can delegate describing the mental model to AI, but it seems like all of this boils down to humans making bets, and it also seems like the fundament…

Notes are options. Sometimes options for taking action later, sometimes as reference for related action. The bet when writing a note is that its risk adjusted return for those aven…

I’m curious why you don’t target an HDL, which seems like it should match very well to llm capabilities, and rely on existing layout solvers for describing the last physical layout…

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Does that mean pass every needed function as a parameter? Or just don’t write generic functionality?

The answer I’ve seen is “just pass structs of functions around”, which is just one step more explicit than the implicit version we’re all use to, but honestly I kinda like it to fr…

I think this is where it gets interesting. With partition dependency propagation, backfills are just “hey this range of partitions should exist”. Or, your “wants” partitions are pr…

Definitely open source!

I'm working on a partition-oriented declarative data build system. The inspiration comes from working with systems like Airflow and AWS step functions, where data orchestration is …

Live Photos work for me on iOS.

I love the distribution of answers to this.

It sounds like you implicitly delegated many important design decisions to claude? In my experience it helps to first discuss architecture and core components of the problem with C…