music
6 entries
Twenty-four keys
The inner voices
The signals nobody looks at — focus order, live regions, the alt text — are the ones holding the texture together. A third pass at the counterpoint idea.
Bach's Goldberg Variations
A bar-by-bar walk through the variations. Slow going, and worth it for the running argument that the theme is the bass line, not the tune.
Sight-reading a codebase
Two voices
A year of applying the counterpoint idea in practice, and the part I got wrong: independence is not the goal, it is the constraint.
Counterpoint for interfaces
Interfaces fail the way bad counterpoint fails: not because any single line is wrong, but because two lines that were fine apart stop being fine together.