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Why building out the full name pattern is the exception

Ang Madsen

Ang Madsen

18 Nov 2025 — 2 min read

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People first

People first

These past few weeks have been hard. Hard to keep up with, hard to stomach, hard to assimilate, and hard to find a pathway forward. It's designed to be hard. The intent is to cow those of us who would be cowed; thrill those of us who would

By Ang Madsen 29 Jan 2026
Information technology design ethics

Information technology design ethics

Once upon a time, I looked for missing books at my college library. I had one of the best finding rates of anyone that had that position before me, and for years after (footnote). The secret to my success was in looking for each book as though it were a

By Ang Madsen 12 Jan 2026
Just care

Just care

We won't get a chance to fix systems if we can't touch them.

By Ang Madsen 12 Jan 2026
Determinism and shifting taxonomy

Determinism and shifting taxonomy

As more companies move to "determined algorithms", we need to talk about deterministic software. It's been around. We have some people enamored with it, some people angry at it, and lots of tangled meanings. That means that we all have to be careful about packing too

By Ang Madsen 07 Jan 2026
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