I’m Werner Strydom. I build software, and I spend a fair amount of time asking why it behaves the way it does — not rhetorically, but the way you’d poke at a thing to see what it’s made of. Why is this happening? Maybe that’s the answer. Fine — then what happens if we do the opposite?

I grew up in South Africa, which teaches you two useful things: how to make a plan, and how to distrust a plan that looks too neat.

This site is where I write the questions down, and occasionally an answer.