Unpublished notes and work in progress.
March 2026
This site is a plain Jekyll project: Markdown and HTML turn into static files, and there is no server-side search API. Anything that feels like search has to ship with the static assets or run in the browser. Here is the setup I use and how the pieces fit together.
March 2026
Pulling tangled earbuds from your pocket often results in a mess that tightens when pulled hard.
However, if you hold the knot loosely and apply a series of gentle, rhythmic nudges, the slack allows gravity and physics to find the path of least resistance.
The chaos organizes itself back into a straight line.
This is directed emergence: a consistent, external force driving a chaotic system toward a specific, desirable outcome.
January 2026
Pulling tangled requirements from a backlog and shipping them to customers used to take weeks. Now it can take hours. The tools changed; the question is whether our approach to building software has caught up.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately, and I want to commit some of it to writing.