Week 23 2025 — Structure, Strain, and Systems That Breathe
May 26, 2025
Published three, drafting one, debugging one, and sketching the next.
✍️ Writing
Just published:
“Beating the Bound — Without Reordering”
Part 2 of Hash Tables Without Assumptions. Explores elastic hashing — where structure, not shuffling, does the heavy lifting.
Read it here“The Blueprint Is the Bottleneck”
Part 3 of Constrain vs Enable. It digs into how architecture silently shapes behaviour, trust, and movement within teams.
Read it here“The Next 700 Programming Languages”
A reflection on Wadler’s classic. DSLs, design trade-offs, and the quiet power of naming things well.
Read it here
In progress:
- “Reactive, Not Just Responsive” — halfway there. Looking beyond the buzzwords to how the Reactive Manifesto reshaped how we think about time, failure, and autonomy.
- End-to-End Arguments notes starting to form — too early to call the tone.
🌱 Prolly Trees
Still thinking in hashes and history.
Prototyping a versioned dataset layer with commit semantics, structural diffs, and fast lookups.
Tugging at the interface between trees and storage — trying not to overthink it (and mostly failing).
🛠️ Hugo + Infra
- Breadcrumbs fixed for untitled sections.
- Mermaid diagrams still misbehaving — patching the theme next.
Still chasing clarity in the places it’s easiest to obscure.