2026-04-25 at

zero-trust : to the functions

I'm getting to the part of software framework design, where I run into the boundary of what is possible without [ static analysis ]. Once you enable static analysis, and [ arbitrary rewrite instructions ], then anything is possible, so I don't want to go there right now, as I am still working in JavaScript for its role as lingua franca.

So, it's pretty easy to design [ dependency inversion, DI ] at the [ module ] level, such that modules are never called directly, but are called by a platform-caller, and given platform-controlled-execution-contexts. 

But if we want to be quite asinine, in a zero-trust sort of way, then we would want to implement DI at the fucking [ function ] level, in other words, such that [ EVERY NON-TRIVIAL FUNCTION ] is never called directly, but by a platform-caller, in a platform-controlled-execution context.

Trying to figure out how this maps back to [ developer experience ], we could think about whether ( or not ) a folder tree of script files, could be homomorphic to the [ call tree ] of the entire program.

Now no one [ needs this all the time ], but in terms of framework design, it seems reasonable to provide it as infrastructure, which could be [ read-once on-startup ] and [ tree-shaken / memoised / inlined ] thereafter. The [ framework user ] would then just opt-in to each available feature as preferred.

Woe is me. Why did I decide to be so nerdy about life?

reducing HOI, and mapping commerce

2001-2004 : I guess college was an amusing exercise, because the body of input data "EACH SUBJECT AND HOW IT RELATES TO EVERY OTHER", was pre-indexed, and I could just focus on "REDUCE" operations. 

2005-2026 : In contrast, my study of commerce has been more oriented about "MAP" operations, simply because I have been trying to account for the individual mental models of people I interact with, so there is the matter of constant indexing for a majority of the time. Perhaps I also began prejudiced against there being anything truly original to learn here, so I have made a point to be meticulous in collecting observations, postponing judgment of most observations till a future time.

public debate : lay of the medium

  • 1. Not every account is a human user.
  • 2. Not all human users are independent actors.
  • 3. Not all independent actors are rational.
  • 4. Not all rational independent actors are friendly.

:)