Sym·poly·mathesy

Computing, Convivially (January 1, 2026)

Digital technologies can be terribly destructive, but they can also be gloriously empowering. How do we shape them into tools for conviviality rather than means of domination?

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!

recovery… is a hopeful act (March 28, 2026)

…and resilience is a virtue I have been building all-too uncomfortably these past five months.

Humans Are Amazing (March 27, 2026)

We took a family ski trip and it provoked no little astonishment.

Just Let Me Share a Silly Little App with My Friends, Okay? (March 19, 2026)

Having an App Store is fine. Only having an App Store is not. Or: the right to install.

Computing, Convivially (January 1, 2026)

Digital technologies can be terribly destructive, but they can also be gloriously empowering. How do we shape them into tools for conviviality rather than means of domination?

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)

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.

Friendly Little Wrapper Types (December 27, 2025; updated December 30, 2025)

What you can do with a “thing” in your system really, really matters!

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.

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