Jupiter Jayna
I’m a British algorist in the Cotswolds. My work sits between large-scale product engineering and art that resists looking computer-generated.
By day I help build consumer platforms used at global scale. The interesting part isn’t the numbers but the patterns: systems that sprawl, teams that drift, choices that echo years later.
On the side I make plotter art. Super-duper-octo-robot is my control centre for pen-plotter drawings, written in code but ending up on paper. It reminds me that software is both system and medium.
Different Shelf is where those threads meet. Not a technical blog, not a leadership diary, but a place to think about how behaviour, architecture and culture shape both products and the people who use them.
Most writing on software sinks into code or floats into strategy. I care about the messy middle: the trade-offs that decide whether something feels brittle or alive.
All views here are my own. I publish when the pattern is clear enough, and the analogy sharp enough, to be worth sharing.