Essays, etc.
My name is Diana. I make things but generally not very well. I put thoughts here.
February 4, 2024
Spirits of the Human Animal
A longer essay concerning systemic influences.
July 20, 2023
Summer Retrospective 2023
Regarding colonialism, revolt, and software.
June 26, 2023
Parables Regarding Software
Lessons learned through toil.
February 6, 2023
Revolution and the World of the Heart
I was scared too, but I need you to understand: we won.
January 24, 2023
Ode to the Worms
...Crawling Through the Skull of the Last Capitalist, Rotting Beneath the Earth
December 4, 2022
A Conceptual Introduction to Spritely Goblins
A transformative paradigm for distributed systems programming.
February 22, 2022
COMMUNITY TAKES WORK (a letter to fedi)
A little network with big hopes struggles to live up to them.
October 13, 2021
The Artist, Afterward
Imagine with me: you are an artist in a post-scarcity world.
July 25, 2021
Software From Another World
Despite their best efforts, a better world awaits.
March 14, 2021
A Veteran's Guide to PouchDB
An introduction to writing software with PouchDB.
March 7, 2021
The Living Stone
A short story about crows.
January 30, 2020
Ibba and the Grux'nis
A *Shepherd* Story.
January 27, 2020
Considerations Regarding Distributed Software
Together we are strong. Knowing this, how can we write good software?
February 4, 2019
Structural Advantages for Software Developers
To Leverage and Destroy
October 26, 2018
Kill Your Server And Get Back To Bed
Patterns for Serverless Applications
September 4, 2018
Vacation Retrospective 2018
I'm on vacation this week and it feels weird.
August 23, 2018
Regarding why software is so bad
Ours is a sorcerous craft. We can do it justice.
June 29, 2018
Chloe Sagal did not need to die.
Words for a friend gone before us.
June 11, 2018
"Far Beyond the Stars" and Visionary Fiction
An essay about a Deep Space Nine episode and the ability of fiction to combat oppression.
January 15, 2018
Distributed datastructures
Turning chaos into uptime.
January 14, 2018
Regarding Browsers
Thinking about the mess.
November 19, 2017
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