Grant Slatton
I'm a founding engineer at Row Zero where we've built the world's fastest spreadsheet.
Formerly, I was a senior engineer at AWS S3 where I led the team that built and owned the custom, high-performance storage node at the heart of the world's largest cloud storage service.
When I'm not writing code, you can find me woodworking in my garage, training BJJ at the gym, or walking around our neighborhood in Seattle with my wife and our corgi.
Feel free to contact me at me@grantslatton.com, or on Twitter.
Here are some articles I've written that you might like:
LLM Memory - Some thoughts on implementations
Claude Code - Everything I know about how to use it, so far
Solution-space Taste - A graphical representation
Sorting Algorithm: The Game - How good are you?
Typo Minimizing Keyboard - Layout optimization problem
The Curve is Bending - Predictions on near-term AI inference spending
Graph Search Algorithm: The Game - A fun puzzle game
Rohit Chess - Fun little board game
AI software I'm surprised doesn't exist yet - Please make it
Technocapital - An essay on post-AI economics
Writing a good design document - A guide
"Passage" - A poem
Design Patterns - An honest primer
How to write complex software - A general method
Bureaulogy - The study of bureaucracy
A peasant's plight - On the shackling of the peasantry
Every Man his own API - A sociotechnological trend
Culture is a set of social Schelling points - Solving coordination problems in community-building
Portals are Undertheorized - The importance of arrival
Binary IQ - A model of LLM capability
Designing bug-proof engines - A spectrum of engineering philosophies
Accidental Urbanism - How I got into the scene
How to Bootstrap a Town - A modest plan
Sports vs Games - An aesthetic distinction
Nobody Cares - A rant about caring
Lightweight property-based testing at Row Zero - How we verify correctness
Rust Macros: Zero to Hero - A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
Algorithms we develop software by - Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
Status among whom? - An essay about status relativism
Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ) - A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system
AI follows auditability - An essay about the order AI will move through the economy
Book List - Stuff I've read
Onsen Unreality - Our experience at an onsen 'theme park' in Tokyo
Tesla Full Self-Driving - My experience with FSD
Internet Fiction - Collection of amateur stories — mainly sci-fi — that I like
All the way down - Very short story about simulation
Story Ideas - A collection of premises for stories
Things I wish I knew earlier - Collection of stuff I would tell my younger self if I could
Road Width Extremism - In favor of narrow roads
Links to See Also - Other "small web" personal sites I recommend
HTML5 Canvas simulations - A collection of little HTML5 canvas demos
Twitter - Essay about how getting on Twitter unexpectedly added a lot of value to my life
Shuttle - A useful concurrency checker library we used to verify our filesystem at AWS
Quasirandom sequences - Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World' - Excellent book about the history of precision machining
Markdown-ish - Writing a Markdown(ish) parser with the nom library