About

I’m Dean. I used to write software for a living. I still do, but I used to write a lot more. I think about math for fun. Also physics and tech and economics and philosophy. So this is a bit of a mess of everything – essays on software and information theory principles, deep dives into combinatorics, explorations of stupid numeral tricks.

The math I engage in is on the stranger side. I have no formal math education – I barely paid attention in high school – so everything here is self-taught, traced through the back doors of computer science. When nobody tells you where the end is, you keep walking, and the corners get stranger. The geometry of modular arithmetic and number systems. Whether Legendre’s third conjecture is hiding something deeper. The recurring fingerprints of Ramanujan and Conway in places they have no business being. That’s the territory.

The software side is more grounded – style rules, engineering principles, the philosophy of constraint that is architecture. I’ve been at this long enough to have opinions – most of them springing from code reviews.

There’s also a collection of quotes I’ve gathered over the years – things I keep coming back to, sorted by theme. Posts are dated dispatches – essays, reactions, rants in the moment. And notes, more arriving as I clean them up.

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_This is a working draft of a life, not a finished one. More to follow, hopefully.