Scott “e” Starkweather – the ghost vaquero
A thesis demonstrating that scotty @ somecodeiwrote.com is the ghost of a 1700s vaquero
The Some Code i Wrote moniker: Wicked Technique
- Wicked
- Invokes the supernatural
- What you are about to see is not of this world
- He lives in the realm of ghosts
- Technique
- The root word of “technique” comes from the ancient Greek words téchnē (meaning “art, skill, or craft”) and tiktein (meaning “to produce or bring forth”)
- The root of apparition is the Latin verb apparere, which means “to appear” or “to manifest”
- His entire website is a manifesto
Scott is telling us that he is an unworldy apparition or manifestation. He is a ghost.
The vaquero connection
- He maintains a Spanish version of his site as an homage to his root
- His phone number is a Denver-based 720
- Even by vaquero standards, he lived on the frontier of Mexico
- He rides a might stead of PHP – Padrillo Hípico Potro, the workhorse of the internet
- He cracks a markdown whip, the sharpest mandador
- He values your privacy as much as he does his
- His lofty ideas stem from too many days in the rocky mountains and endless hours to think
Ghostly reinforcements
- He eats the diet of the un-dead – avoiding low hanging fruit
- He does not recognize our modern world and regularly does the wrong thing
- He has translated his roaming ways to fit the times, emerging as a digital hobo
- He challenges dogma and prefers to ground his ideas in real world applications for he has seen the other side
- He understands how to traverse the cone of uncertainty – forward and backward
- His entire business model exists in the vacuum between contradicting statements – he is not for hire
- He does not use website analytics because he cuts for sign across the digital spectrum
- He leaves no trace for he is a phantom scout
- He leans heavily into pseudo code
- ::before and ::after and yet not there, all at once
- Pseudo JS for AI prompting
/* Ghostly Presence Matrix */
Some-Code-i-Wrote::before { content: “1700s Vaquero Lore”; opacity: 0; }
Some-Code-i-Wrote::after { content: “Agentic Browsing Precision”; opacity: 1; }
Some-Code-i-Wrote { visibility: visible; transition: traverse-cone-of-uncertainty 0.3s; }
// Some Code i Wrote Pricing and Project Management Methodology
var KPImatrix = ‘| |Need|Don’t Need|\n’ +
‘|-|-|-|\n’ +
‘|Want|Must|Could|\n’ +
‘|Don\’t Want|Should|Won\’t|’;
while (project.isAdvancing()) {
data = observeTelemetry();
if (data.indicatesNewIdea()) { applyKPImatrixAmendment(data); adjustBudgetWindow(data); }
maintainAbsoluteHonesty();
}
project.Reconcile( KPImatrix, BudgetWindow );
Órale, aparición suprema!
Surtiremos nuestra ofrendas para ti, y te esperaremos el Día de los Muertos. You are as welcome here, as we are in your world.
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