About Urbit, Part II — Identity

In Part 1, I described the overall structure of the Urbit network and how stars and galaxies work. The rest of this series will discuss Urbit from the planet’s perspective.


Sentence Diagramming

I came across this article about sentence diagramming which struck a chord with me.

I’ve had software development pedagogy on the brain, it occurs to me that the practice of diagramming sentences maps very closely to the practice of writing code. In both of them…


Tech Debt

We were talking at work the other day about tech debt. The definition for “tech debt” is a bit tricky; Wikipedia is particularly opaque. My personal definition is those items in the To Do list that don’t provide any direct value to the end user, but ought to be done anyway. Like refactoring the crude hack…