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Essays on agents and data, and notes on how this site was made.

essays
06
topics
09
Years
2026
By topic#this site04#agents01#data01#data quality01#design01#engraving01#interaction01#research method01#time01

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  1. Through the windowsThe homepage of this site is a path for a camera: from Dürer’s St Michael onward, every chapter is entered through a window. This is how it came about.2 min#this site#design
  2. A stone a yearLichen grows a millimetre or two a year; it keeps time, not events. The vita on the homepage works the same way: a stone for each year.1 min#this site#time
  3. On candlelight and latencyEvery click on a web page comes with a delay. Cut whatever waiting you can; for the fraction of a second that’s left, let people see what it’s doing.1 min#this site#interaction
  4. Why engravings still glowInvert a Dürer woodcut and the black turns to light; every line becomes a bright cut in the dark. It was the first thing decided for this site.1 min#this site#engraving
  5. The devil’s advocateFor an agent, agreeing costs almost nothing. So a research process needs someone whose job is to object: someone who takes no part in the writing, only the review, and checks everything against the source.2 min#agents#research method
  6. Two equal numbersThe sneakiest mistake in checking data is to relax when two numbers match. Equal numbers only say the two are the same today; whether they measure the same thing, they can’t tell you.2 min#data#data quality

IIIndex rerumBy topic09

#this site04

#agents01

#data01

#data quality01

#design01

#engraving01

#interaction01

#research method01

#time01