Grant Slatton

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Design Patterns
4 Jan 2025 | original ↗

An honest primer

How to write complex software
1 Jan 2025 | original ↗

A general method

Bureaulogy
21 Dec 2024 | original ↗

The study of bureaucracy

A peasant's plight
14 Nov 2024 | original ↗

On the shackling of the peasantry

Every Man his own API
9 Nov 2024 | original ↗

A sociotechnological trend

Culture is a set of social Schelling points
27 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Solving coordination problems in community-building

Portals are Undertheorized
19 Oct 2024 | original ↗

The importance of arrival

Binary IQ
13 Oct 2024 | original ↗

A model of LLM capability

Designing bug-proof engines
13 Oct 2024 | original ↗

A spectrum of engineering philosophies

Accidental Urbanism
11 Oct 2024 | original ↗

How I got into the scene

How to Bootstrap a Town
1 Oct 2024 | original ↗

A modest plan

Sports vs Games
26 Sept 2024 | original ↗

An aesthetic distinction

Nobody Cares
25 Sept 2024 | original ↗

A rant about caring

Lightweight property-based testing at Row Zero
4 Sept 2024 | original ↗

How we verify correctness

Rust Macros: Zero to Hero
1 Sept 2024 | original ↗

A comprehensive guide on Rust macros

Algorithms we develop software by
17 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain

Status among whom?
15 Aug 2024 | original ↗

An essay about status relativism

Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ)
15 Aug 2024 | original ↗

A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system

Building Filesystems
3 Aug 2024 | original ↗

High level ideas in filesystem design

AI follows auditability
30 Jul 2024 | original ↗

An essay about the order AI will move through the economy

Book List
21 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Stuff I've read

Onsen Unreality
16 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Our experience at an onsen 'theme park' in Tokyo

Tesla Full Self-Driving
14 Jul 2024 | original ↗

My experience with FSD

Internet Fiction
13 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Collection of amateur stories — mainly sci-fi — that I like

All the way down
13 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Very short story about simulation

Story Ideas
13 Jul 2024 | original ↗

A collection of premises for stories

Things I wish I knew earlier
10 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Collection of stuff I would tell my younger self if I could

Road Width Extremism
9 Jul 2024 | original ↗

In favor of narrow roads

Links to See Also
3 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Other "small web" personal sites I recommend

HTML5 Canvas simulations
3 Jul 2024 | original ↗

A collection of little HTML5 canvas demos

Twitter
1 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Essay about how getting on Twitter unexpectedly added a lot of value to my life

Shuttle
1 Jul 2024 | original ↗

A useful concurrency checker library we used to verify our filesystem at AWS

Quasirandom sequences
1 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Cool method to generate non-clumping random points

Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World'
1 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Excellent book about the history of precision machining

Markdown-ish
1 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Writing a Markdown(ish) parser with the nom library

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