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Orient

Notes

How this was built.

Four pieces, written while building it rather than after. Each one is about a decision that had a cost, and says what the cost was.


  1. 01Design

    The contract prices nothing

    A vault that never reads a price cannot be attacked by moving one — and almost every other decision here follows from being unable to.

    4 September 2026 · 6 min

  2. 02Mechanism

    What a share is worth

    Liquidity over supply, the two ways that leaks, and why every division in the contract rounds toward the holders who stayed.

    4 September 2026 · 7 min

  3. 03Engineering

    Testing against the real singleton

    No Foundry on this machine, so the tests run the PoolManager’s actual deployed bytecode in process — and it disagreed with me three times.

    4 September 2026 · 6 min

  4. 04Craft

    The colour on this site is computed

    A transfer matrix through an aragonite stack, integrated against the CIE observer — and the two mistakes that made it look like cracked paint and television static.

    4 September 2026 · 7 min