Words are good, so here is our history.
House Fire, Death, and Rebirth
By Jeffrey M. Barber
In early March 2025, a hidden spark from shoddy electrical work, neglected for over two decades, ignited a fire that devoured my attic. When the fire department arrived, they didn’t just douse the flames—they tore through the ceiling, leaving a gaping wound in our home. Toxic smoke and torrents of water ruined everything we owned, forcing my wife and me out of our house and into chaos. It’s been a relentless ordeal, and I’m here to unpack it all—while also confronting the fragile future of Adama, a platform that’s been hanging on by a single thread: me.
I just got fired from my own business
By Jeffrey M. Barber
The company that I founded just fired me because I’m too fat. I’m just too fucking fat, and the boss just had enough of my bullshit. Now, this may be confusing since I’m a solopreneur that acts as a consultant trapping companies on this cockamamie platform that I had during a fever dream.
Hiring and time to get SAVAGE.
By Jeffrey M. Barber
There are moments in life where I realize my true nature in a primal encounter. It would seem that I’m an deeply angry man, but at what? Well, the list may not be enumerable… At the moment, I have been reviewing hundreds of resumes… I’m angry at the whole system.
Building a Flexible Type System
By Jeffrey M. Barber
When I started building Adama, I decided to simply focus on making maximal forward progress. With respect to the type system, this has been a beautiful mistake. I have my work cut out for me in improving the type system to make it better, but I’m happy where things are at the moment in terms of being useful. I have a very limited form of type inference in play, and I want to cover one non-trivial facet of it today: type unification.
Going Savage with a Hiring Philosophy
By Jeffrey M. Barber
The modern workplace simply sucks. Looking around this sick world, it may just be as reflection that our civilization just sucks and we should never have stopped hunting and gathering. I’m feeling the echoes from pg’s “You weren’t meant to have a boss” essay, and a paradox arises for me around hiring as being entrepreneur focused on freedom. My struggle is ultimately that I do not want to further my freedom at the expense of others, so I want deals to be fair. Yet, I’m also not willing to sacrifice my freedom for the freedom of others. Your freedom is your problem, not mine.
Designing a Usage/Limit system to avoid large bills
By Jeffrey M. Barber
Since this platform aims to be a next-gen new kind of all-in-one server-less thing, I want to avoid the criticism of “infinite cost” (and being shamed on Serverless horrors). I too believe that all vendors should provide a maximum usage cap, and I’m shocked it isn’t done in more places. Actually, I’m not shocked since the lack of usage caps maximizes shareholder value.