Work
The professional path: systems shipped, teams supported, and problems solved.
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David Browning
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01 / Explore
Four ways to explore
Projects
Practical builds, design tradeoffs, and the engineering decisions behind them.
Explore projectsWriting
Essays on software, systems, learning, design, and the occasional useful tangent.
Read the writingAbout
The context behind the work: interests, values, background, and what keeps me curious.
More about me02 / Featured projects
From the workbench
Personal Website
A source-available portfolio site built as a practical ASP.NET Core workbench.
03 / Featured writing
From the notebook
The Four Fs of Code
Practical guidance to developing systems.
04 / Interests
On the workbench
People and incentives
Its interesting how people choose. There are incentives, fears, habits, and ego driving what we do. Economics and psychology both remind me that real systems have real people in them. History is full of us shaping people to fit our institutions. But how can we shape systems to better serve people?