AI / Making things / Outline
The Something or Nothing Test
A budget of zero, an invoice that never existed, and a practical question: would the work otherwise happen? Spanish sounds fun.
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Articles
Essays on the ideas and methods that cross the projects. A reading shelf, rather than a stream of updates.
Language / Domain knowledge / Outline
What Is a Domain Specific Language?
Practitioner, domain, specific, language. Put them together, order a coffee, and discover the working shorthand you already use.
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Language design / Usefulness / Outline
Tools Should Understand the Work
Why build tiny languages? Put expertise into the tool: familiar vocabulary, intelligent defaults and meaningful checks, with less repetition and more attention left for the craft.
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Domain knowledge / Outline
Acquiring Domain Knowledge
Reading rules, examining examples, interviewing practitioners, doing the work, and drawing on existing bodies of knowledge. Where expertise comes from, before it becomes a language.
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Computing / Experimentation / Outline
AI Makes Computers Fun Again
An Atari 800, animated characters and a game built in weeks. How AI brings the art of the possible back within reach—and makes combining domains exciting again.
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Expertise / Authorship
AI Assertion
AI is an accelerant. A note on investigation, expertise, and using AI to make knowledge clearer without confusing presentation with authorship.
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Graphic novels / Production / Outline
Comic Book Production Bible
What belongs in a production Bible: the story, the visual decisions, the working rules and the record of what has been agreed.
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Information architecture / IT security / Outline
The Principle of Crushing Inevitability — IT Security Work
A task, an approval and a document. Links, shared identifiers and explicit states should carry the reviewer through the work.
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Information architecture / Comic scripts / Outline
The Principle of Crushing Inevitability — Writing Comic Scripts
Carry the identity through the script, the Bible and the artwork. Give collaborators the right reference without making them hunt for it.
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Writing / Brevity / Outline
Brevity, Brevity — My Kingdom for Some Brevity!
Brevity for Brevity’s Sake. A crowded Ideas Book, the case against padding, and why these short outlines are already the articles.
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