Essays, the Eidos specification, and the projects behind them.

Eidos: An Architecture for Cheap Code

For fifty years, software architecture has argued about where the boundaries should go, on the shared premise that a human's attention is the scarce resource. That premise no longer holds.

Hello World

The first post on my new portfolio site.

Portfolio Site

Personal portfolio with animated gear background, blog, and project showcase.

Eidos for Infrastructure

Where declarative tooling already separates Form from implementation, drift is the enemy, and six fitness functions buy an E2 estate in a weekend.

Form Template & Gate Registry

The canonical templates for a Form document and the gate registry, plus the parity check that makes the registry impossible to quietly falsify.

Adopting Eidos

The playbook for existing projects: assessment, a first gate, forming the load-bearing modules, regenerability drills, and the anti-patterns that undo all four.

Eidos Architecture

The canonical specification: Forms and implementations, the three commitments, the vocabulary, and the conformance levels that measure a repository against them.