Hi Chris, how are you!? It's been a while man. We've definitely dug into it a lot deeper than last time you worked on it. As you say, once you get how the models work it sticks with you :)
I've been well. Landed a software job with a company called IntegriShield doing a sort of internet rent-a-cop work, now am writing apps for a mechanical contractor called US Engineering -- turns out the construction business always runs on razor-thin margins which is kinda nice because, like, reducing cost by 1% when construction margins are only ~5% causes a 20% improvement in net profit.
This is great work, and I think you're burying one lede, which is that it looks like you've embedded a declarative permissions model in this thing, and I built one of those and the time saved can be huge when authorization is handled at the model level rather than everywhere in the business logic.
The permission model actually only landed a few weeks ago, so we haven't been able to fully appreciate what we did ourselves. You're right though, it's probably a pretty huge deal :)
