Thoughts about things, probably grossly overthunk.
Value and Business - a digression
The thinking of systems Sometimes in the 1970s, an idea caught fire in the US. It originated in an essay published in 1970 by Milton Friedman, “A Friedman Doctrine”. By the end of the decade, this became the defining mantra in most North American business schools. By the end of …
Testing is Engineering
Programming isn’t really engineering This Ruby project has been very enjoyable. I’ve been getting my hands dirty …
Fighting Entropy
Wherein the writer learns how to polish mud There’s an arts and crafts thing in Japan and now the rest of the world that …
It's Always September Somewhere
One of my side projects is maintaining a really cool resource: Fishes of Georgia. It’s a directory of all of the known …
Liner Notes - My Redesign Sticking Point
The End of the Beginning I wrote the last post as I was getting ready to ship the new design. I ran into a devil of a …
A Fresh Start
Pardon the Mess - Under construction. When I decided to restart my website, I fell back into old design styles and …