MT / Gargleblaster

Public notebook / updated when there is something worth keeping

Field
notes.

Short essays on software, systems, privacy and photography, and on making things easier to understand.

#003

A topology map should answer a question

A useful network map shows the structure first, then the one detail someone came to find.

#002

Privacy is an architectural decision

Privacy is most reliable when the system cannot change its mind later, so the boundary belongs in the architecture as well as in the policy.

#001

Reviewing agent-written code

Faster code generation moves more of the engineering work into writing the brief, asking for evidence and reviewing the result.