i build software, and i try to build it the way a good tool ought to be: determined, not rushed; made to keep out of the way; implemented as if it were to stay there forever. by day that is data tooling toward foundational models for clinical trials — quiet infrastructure, in the service of medicine that means to leave a little less suffering behind it.
away from the day's work i keep company with a handful of ideas, and this is really their index more than mine.
Occupations of the mind
- programming languages & type theory the parts of computing that read more like grammar than like machinery — where a good type is an argument, and holes are allowed to stay open a while.
- local-first & malleable software tools for thought that belong to the person using them; software you can pry open, that outlives its vendor, that keeps working with the garage door up.
- the naturalist's method to wait, to watch, to name one's own phenomena before rushing to fix them — birdwatching, but the birds are attention, habit, and meaning.
- writing, plainly mostly to find out what i actually think; and because the text i read online, freely given, is a good part of what made me.
On the shoulders of others
almost everything worth knowing here was handed to me by people who wrote in the open and asked for nothing back. this corner is a small attempt to keep the torch moving — to leave a few notes where the next person can find them.
Where to write to me
- a notebookheyddk.dev
- the workbenchgithub.com/heyddk
- lettersletters@khank.in