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The Solution Space

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My grandfather was an expert wood carver, metalworker, machinist, pilot, and angler - as well as a teacher and school principal. When I began to tinker with engines and electronics as a kid, he would stress the importance of using the right tools. He had a saying along the lines of “you’re only as good as the tools you use.” As any arrogant kid would, I largely blew this off and didn’t think much of it at the time. At least, I certainly didn’t think about it at the individual, organizational, and societal scale that I do now. Now that I work in the software world where magic can be made without leaving your chair, it’s stark to see how much of a difference the right tools can make. You see the impact of proper tooling in ideation, scope of capabilities, speed, cost, team/company size, competition, and morale. It’s incredible to witness the leverage a great engineer has with the right tools, and how much less capable they are without them. My genuine hope for th

The Solution Space Select Post Useful Black Boxes I wanted to write this post in markdown, so I did a quick search for a browser-based editor, but quickly questioned why I was doing that. Instead of searching for one that I liked, I popped open codex to build me one. It coded a sufficient version in a couple minutes from the following prompt (typo included): Can you write me a super simple, browser based markdown editor? It should persist the data to a local file as I tpye I didn't audit the code - but the details are not at all relevant to what I'm trying to accomplish (writing a blog post).

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