Paper: Coordination Without Orchestration
How declared handoffs and a shared event history let AI workers, software, and people continue work without a central orchestrator.
Essays & engineering practice
Writing
Software is easier to change when we can reason about it. These essays explore what helps, what gets in the way, and how we work together.
Simplicity Is Security
From OpenBSD to agentic coding: eliminate what's not needed, trust less, and limit the blast radius.
Reviews worth the interruption
Making changes understandable, giving reviewers useful evidence, and making code review worth the interruption.
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
Setting limits, questioning comments, and writing pure functions will simplify our code and save our brains for the most important work.