Isaac Corbrey

@isaaccorbrey.com

Jujutsu sorcerer, whisperer of Rust, namer of things, cogitator of cognitives. 📜 Blog: https://isaaccorbrey.com 🍱 Links: https://blento.isaaccorbrey.com ☕ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/icorbrey 💛 Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/isaaccorbrey.com

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Longform Stories

On tests and perceptual domain modelling

Knowing when you've tested enough depends on whether you can see the edges of your input space.

May 13·1 min read·23 words

A job postmortem, circa 2026

A cautionary tale of trust.

Apr 23·1 min read·10 words

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

A practical guide to creating and maintaining powerful megamerge workflows in Jujutsu for faster, conflict-free development.

Apr 20·1 min read·22 words

Open source funding, a bimodal distribution

Most open source contributors earn little or nothing for sustained, valuable work.

Feb 23·1 min read·18 words

Webrings as collective OAuth

Perhaps an end to endless logging in?

Feb 19·1 min read·11 words

Standard.site backlinks for Margin annotations

I think standard.site makes backlinking easier than I originally realized.

Feb 13·1 min read·15 words

A thought about releases on Tangled

What if we put even more things on site.standard.document?

Feb 11·1 min read·15 words

Parenthood is exhausting, but I don't regret a second of it

Balancing deep creative work with limited, fragmented time after parenting.

Feb 10·1 min read·21 words

A growing sense of disconnection

Feeling disconnected from editing code and tool interactions over time.

Feb 9·1 min read·15 words

First thoughts on integrating with standard.site

Notes on the limitations and unresolved design questions encountered while integrating a blog with standard.site.

Feb 6·1 min read·21 words

On database migrations and workflow friction

Database development workflows are slow, fragile, and frustrating despite clear data models.

Feb 6·1 min read·18 words

How accessible to LLMs is Jujutsu?

Thoughts about where Jujutsu’s log output breaks down for LLMs during complex merges.

Feb 6·1 min read·19 words

You should play Hanabi!

It's been living rent free in my brain.

Jan 16·1 min read·12 words

Astro: First impressions

My first impressions of Astro, a web framework for content-driven websites.

Nov 7·1 min read·14 words