Writing
Essays, the Eidos specification, and the projects behind them.
On the Name Eidos
Eidos is Plato's word for Form, though the architecture it names owes nearly as much to Aristotle, who used the same word, and its craftsman is the one the Gnostics described.
The Limits of a Gate
An architecture that rests on mechanical enforcement owes an account of where enforcement stops: which rules deserve a gate, who guards the gates, and what a passing gate proves.
Eidos: An Architecture for Cheap Code
For fifty years, software architecture has argued about where the boundaries should go, on the shared premise that the code is written by a person whose attention is the scarce resource. That premise no longer holds.