A support ticket that reads "the app is broken" is a request for help. A ticket that reads "the checkout service returns a 500 only on Tuesdays, only when the cart payload exceeds two megabytes, and only after the nightly cron job has run" is something else. The second is not a better-worded version of … Continue reading A Question, Asked Precisely
Tag: aphorisms
Zuihitsu, 2025-12
These aren’t polished essays or tidy aphorisms. They’re scraps I’ve carried around this month—half-heard thoughts, borrowed lines, sudden recognitions—that refused to be forgotten. Zuihitsu literally means “following the brush,” and while my version is shorter and scrappier than the classical form, the impulse feels the same: to catch what drifts across the mind before it … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2025-12
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