I don't build systems. I imagine them, then write them. I spent 24 days digging into the code of {Shan, Shui}* Chinese painting generator and lived to tell the story. This article is written for my Substack, you can subscribe to it by email now! While a lot of fellow developers spent this year’s advent on solving this year’s Advent of Code puzzles, I decided to have my own little “advent.” A few w