dorian

@doriantaylor
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make things. make sense.

• making infrastructure for dense hypermedia at https://intertwingler.net .

• writing a book connecting Christopher Alexander to software, serialized as a newsletter ($): https://buttondown.email/natureofsoftware

Webhttps://doriantaylor.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/doriantaylor
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@methodandstructure
GitHubhttps://github.com/doriantaylor
dorian1d ago

i am actually quite pleased with how this turned out; probably some of the clearest and most accessible writing about what i've been working on all these years:

https://doriantaylor.com/cutting-the-gordian-hairball

Cutting the Gordian Hairball

A meditation on the close of a veritable odyssey, and how Intertwingler—the application server I'm creating—is actually a frontal assault on link rot.

The Making of Making Sense
dorian1d ago
true to form, instead of finishing the thing, i stopped working on finishing the thing to write 3700 words about finishing the thing: https://doriantaylor.com/cutting-the-gordian-hairball
Cutting the Gordian Hairball

A meditation on the close of a veritable odyssey, and how Intertwingler—the application server I'm creating—is actually a frontal assault on link rot.

The Making of Making Sense
Show threaddorianMay 3

regular expressions—a skill for which i have thirty literal years' experience—are opaque and incredibly frustrating in the context of emacs.

patterns i could type out in my sleep into any other regex engine take hours to debug. the process makes me feel stupid. it's like the capability just evaporates.

dorianMay 3
emacs regexes 💀💀💀
dorianMay 3

OK true to form i am 25 minutes late starting up but heeeere we gooo

• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/Oej_7tTg71Y

@doriantaylor.com's livestream on Streamplace

2026-05-02 WORKING IN PUBLIC: this bottle of sake ain't gonna drink itself

dorianMay 2

just sent a newsletter out on my "work" channel; the one i was threatening to earlier. updates on this veritable wad of projects i've gotten myself into:

https://buttondown.com/methodandstructure/archive/the-two-intertwinglers/

The Two Intertwinglers

New developments in my ever-expanding project to retrofit the Web.

Method & Structure
dorianApr 30

from this morning: the language of software vendors and how their products "let" users do this or that

maybe instead of praising companies for what their products "let" us do, consider all the things we *could* be doing that they're holding out on

https://youtu.be/VuJmz-H0pE8

2026-04-30 “our product lets you…”

YouTube
dorianApr 27
Pavel A. SamsonovApr 27

Tools like Claude Design have an assumption baked into them: that "productivity" is fungible, and more "productivity" of artifacts leads to more value.

But if anything, the problem is that there are too MANY artifacts — and decision-making within your company begins to take on a "garbage can" model.

The solution for designers is to step out of clock time work, and think on calendar time.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/claude-design-is-a-clock-time-solution-for-a-calendar-time-problem

#UX #UXDesign #AI #LLM #tech #softwaredevelopment #design

Claude Design is a "clock time" solution for a "calendar time" problem

Orgs are betting that they can substitute sense-making with faster artifact delivery. Users are paying the price.

The Product Picnic
dorianApr 16
what if the treatflation was a factor in the vibecession? https://youtu.be/sJPWG7VBUL0
2026-04-16 vibecession: treatflation?

YouTube
dorianApr 15
link (t)wink: meme edition Apr 14