This site is still very much under construction. Currently, there is no search, no RSS/Atom feeds, no permalinks, etc.. But, I don’t want to postpone writing while I build out non-essential infrastructure. This handcrafted index serves as a good-enough entry point into most of my writings while I continue to work on out the rest of this site’s infrastructure.
I’m also still developing writing process. I write often as a means of sorting out my thoughts about something. Sometimes that has value to others and is worth putting in the extra work to share it with others. Other times it’s not. Figuring out what’s worth spending extra effort on and what’s not is a tricky task. It’s a tradeoff between quality and momentum. Stay tuned.
The following entries are most like traditional blog posts. Some relate to technical experiments, some are personal reflections about the craft.
Summarizing articles is a useful exercise. It’s useful for me as the summarizer because it demands active focus. As a summary reader, I appreciate summaries because they help you effectively determine if an article is worth (re)reading. Furthermore, when you stream someone else’s summaries, such as with an RSS feed, you get exposed to a broader set of ideas than you would otherwise be exposed to.
The following entries are summaries of other people’s work. The author and source are credited within each entry. As part of my attempt to focus my attention more deliberately, these are summaries of articles that I found valuable and worth sharing. Not to say that they are “good” or that I endorse the ideas within them, but there was something in them that made them a little more impactful to me than your run-of-them-mill article.