Catalog 003 — Spectra

Read by its light.

Hydrogen gives off four wavelengths and nothing else. That signature is how you find it nine billion light years away.

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Balmer series · H I

656.3 · 486.1 · 434.0 · 410.2 nm

Pick what it is. Then what it’s about.

Two questions instead of thirty series names. Both are optional, and they combine.

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Load Average Tee — 1.00, 5.00, 15.00

$35

The one, five, and fifteen minute averages, printed as a machine reports them. A training log keeps the same three…

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Progressive Overload Tee — operator+

$35

An operator that takes two plates and returns something heavier. The only kind of overloading that leaves a mark.

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Isometric Tee — W = Fd

$35

Force applied over zero distance. Ninety seconds under the bar, and the physics records nothing at all.

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Rest Interval Tee — sleep(180)

$35

Three minutes, called explicitly. The most disciplined line in the program.

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Deload Tee — git revert

$35

Four weeks, reverted on purpose. Progress that requires undoing part of itself to continue.

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Rep Max Tee — while (form.ok)

$35

A loop with a single exit condition. It does not count repetitions. It counts until the form goes.

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It Works On My Machine Tee — Certified

$35

A certification stamp issued by the only machine ever tested against. Sample size one.

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Works As Intended Tee — Resolution

$35

A ticket, closed. The crash turned out to be the specification.

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Two Hard Things Tee — Off By One

$35

Cache invalidation, naming things. The list runs one item past its own count.

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Weeks Of Coding Tee — Hours Of Planning

$35

A proverb, inverted and set as one. Most people have proved it at least once.

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Sufficiently Advanced Tee — Law III

$35

A law about magic, rewritten for software. The distinction was always a matter of documentation.

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Temporary Fix Tee — 2019

$35

A line number, a comment, and a date. Still in production.

Read by its light.

Pick what it is. Then what it’s about.

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