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In the past 5 years, I've worked at and with 4 companies that worked heavily with metadata.

Only one of them had acknowledged it. They also had efforts in place to leverage their humongous knowledge graph. The other one was a startup where we saw the need for it. Then the other 2 hadn't really gotten around thinking of it yet but I helped raise awareness and eventually, something got done about it.

I keep seeing companies struggle with data modeling because it is delegated to developers that don't understand the domain, and it kinda bugs me because we can do better.

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NOTE: This started as an OCaml type-system thing and ended up as a library design and documentation copy UX thing. So caveat emptor.

I've found that some of the best displays of mastery of OCaml are also some of the worst examples from a usability perspective.

To make the discussion more concrete, let's talk about cmdliner, the command line toolkit by Daniel Bünzli.

Hello there! Hope your weekend was good.

Today I'd like to talk about code that evolved organically, and code that was planned, or had a vision, or was structured according to some explicit rules.

Really I think I want to talk about having a vision for a system.

Back at a certain music company, I found myself working with a rather large PHP system. Scatman was used by employees to navigate the content, debug systems that would push content into the platform, and in particular by specific teams in charge of our relationship with providers.

Hello y'all,

I find myself deleting half written tweet chains very often. I think its because I don't really dig the medium. I'm not saying I need a lot of space to express myself, but you know, a tweet chain seems to not cut it most of the time.

So at the request of a strong few, here's a newsletter. This could be the middleground between a tweet and an essay. Less often than daily, more often than monthly. Maybe once a week? Let's aim for that. Hold me accountable to this.

But what exactly will I write about? I think the broad strokes are more or less these: