This is very cool, thank you for the write-up.

What caught my eye is the complexity you assign to a project like this. It’s hairy but I wouldn’t call it super complicated. I find that super interesting to be honest because it probably means that it is really hard and I am just used to this shit now and it all looks doable to me now.

I never think of anything as “complex”, certainly not my own work and I always think what other people do is so much more impressive but I’m starting to realize it might be a me-issue.

I worked on some pretty hairy nonsense like say a DB replication solution but I still think it was just tangly, not complex like say a particle collider. Maybe I also need to call my work super complex and highly abstract. Now that I think of it I have a history of not being taken seriously while others with easy shit get credits.