> GENERAL_LEDGER

// SOURCE_OF_TRUTH

History does not exist to be proud of. False implies true. Things concretely happened, or they did not. Water is wet. The why of things happening is a more interesting question.

Amateurs talk tactics; professionals talk logistics. From there we move up to second order analysis, third order, until we exhaust the meaning of language itself in the crucible of enlightenment as we burn away the false dross. That which remains in existence, despite all plausibility, nonetheless still exists.

This is the General Journal. The original source of truth. It respects the zero value, and it knows that Null is a value distinct from zero. We do not "Scream and Leap" like the Kzinti, nor do we seek the glory of the Klingon battle. We play the Old Man's game—the slow patience of one who sees the skein being woven and respects the patterns of the Three.

A softening of the ground. An orderly flow. No one needs runs in their stockings.

// TRANSACTION_LOG

DATE
ENTRY_DESCRIPTION
2023-01-25

                    The Shape of Structured Data
                    Analysis: Extracting scaffolding from JSON/YAML for migration protocols.
                
2020-10-08

                    Writing Very Small Executables
                    Optimization: Creating valid ELF binaries under extreme constraints.
                
2019-11-12

                    Type Asserting []interface{} to String Slices
                    GoLang: Handling generic map unmarshalling safely.
                
2018-05-19

                    Complex Struct Serialization
                    Infrastructure: Storing state outside the application boundary (GOB/Redis).
                
2017-08-30

                    Recursive Common Table Expressions (CTE)
                    Database: Querying arbitrary depth hierarchies in SQL.
                

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