§ i · Introduction & Index

A working office in the back matter of a book that is mostly index.

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Shimin Zhang — software engineer, tinkerer, occasional podcast host.

Shipping software professionally since 2012. Web applications, AI products, a little robotics, a lot of code that had to out-tenure the engineers who came after me[7]. At Charter now, maintaining React Kite — the React component library behind the Kite Design System. Previously at FloQast, where I helped take Variance AI Explanation from prototype to production.

I co-host Artificial Developer Intelligence[3], a weekly podcast about AI-assisted development. I keep a journal[14] / reading log, and tinker with AI projects on the side[18].

Home is the Kitsap Peninsula, with Meg the border collie and Romulus the blue Australian Shepherd[12].

The site is organised as a book’s back matter: the homepage is an index. Start at an entry that catches your eye.

General Index

Entries link to the Sheet (§i – §vii) and folio where the subject is treated. See and see also are italicised.

A

B

  • Big Picture Partners iv · 17
  • Blog , see Journal
  • Border Collie , see Meg

C

F

  • FloQast , see also Variance AI ii · 4

G

H

J

K

L

M

N

R

S

V

W

field after Quilez, 2002 · 47°44′N · 122°38′W · composed Pacific time