Writing

Essays, notes, and reflections. Technical and philosophical, personal and practical.

The Only Wisdom He Had

Socrates said the one thing he knew was that he knew nothing. In an age of instant answers, that's starting to look like the whole skill.

One safety net at the hackathon didn't need the model to cooperate. The other did.

A checkout form with two fields, both labeled Nom, decided which name was mine.

One user blew past what the cap implied. The label and the behavior did not match.

I was ready to build. The solution was a person.

My boyfriend explained my promotion using basketball.

My English teacher said I was laconic. I spent years thinking it was a flaw.

Aristotle linked character to habit. I keep coming back to what that means for how we build software, teams, and ourselves.

Two apps. Same company. Completely different rules about what your address means.

The gap between software that works and software that feels right is not a technical gap.