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I see tons of essays called something like “On X” or “In Praise of Y” or “Meditations on Z,” and I always assume they’re under-baked. That’s a topic, not a take.
28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing
Adam Mastroianni
For me, ICEWATCH is a deeply spiritual practice: I want to build reverence and fear for the power of the Lake, understand its changes more intimately, and pay my respects to the entity that gives life to all of Chicago. ICEWATCH is an attempt to grow closer to the Lake’s cycles.
Ice Watching: Lake Michigan's Spiritual Practice
wbez.org
Your choice of data layout/structure has two consequences: it makes invariants easier to enforce and it makes operations (queries and transforms) easier.
Ergonomic APIs, Channel Invariants, and Data Views
Hillel Wayne
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