Chris Zempel's Blog
Hi. I'm a software developer based out of St. Louis, MO. I work at Aha! (opens in new tab).
Our job here on this earth is to create worthy meaning. Unless you'd rather chill out - you do you!
Why is it companies who can turn capital into all kinds of things - cars, global supply chains, incredible volume - can't seem to be build good software?
That's not the big question though. The big question of our age is whether the large scale events which impact all our lives are directed (guided by intention from the few), emergent (larger-scale patterns resulting from finer-scale details), or if this distinction has become increasingly irrelevant as our society has grown more complex and we need a different way of looking at it.
Usually I write for others in the course of work. Occasionally I'll write here when ideas have nowhere else to go. Take a peak:
Archive
- COVID Guidelines guide
- How to Choose What to Read guide
- On Making More Expressive Frameworks anecdote
- Segmenting Software Development Work by Demand anecdote
- Solving the Wizard Problem guide
- Snippet - Nifty Way of Text -> Data snippet rust
- Why Two-Way Data Binding Is(n't) Bad anecdote
- How to Debug guide
- Coffee isn't Complicated guide
- React in Rails - The Gotchas guide
- My Favorite Book of All Time anecdote
- Junior vs Senior thought-experiment
- The Development Behind InvisibleGirlfriend anecdote
- What is Critical Thinking? thought-experiment
- The Five Core Activities of a Software Dev launchcode
- Learning to Think Like A Developer launchcode
- Working at Efeqdev launchcode
- Test Your Might - How I’m Getting up to Speed launchcode
- How I Launched My Development Career in Nine Months launchcode