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David Barbour

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PX is the new UX

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this implies the existence of cringe pointers

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I call this one "Your Just is my Hassle": Developer A: "Let's just use a Library so we don't have to do The Thing ourselves." Developer B: "Let's just do The Thing ourselves so we don't have to add a Library."


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live self-contained wasm music cards with Ian Clester (unrelated to his upcoming LIVE talk)

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The majority of audio software firmware is written in c/c++ which, in theory, is fine with me but the second I try to customize anything or get two things working together its a nightmare and I feel like those things are related.


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The explainability of a system depends more on how you seek the explanation than on what you seek to explain.

The explainability of the system depends on: - the system itself, - how you extract the information from it, and - how you use the information. If you attempt to make systems explainable only by changing the system, you miss the opportunities offered by the other two levers.

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Levels of software ownership: 1. Actively developed 2. Maintained 3. Servicing only 4. Last one who touched it owns it 5. Last one who looked at it owns it 6. Pray nothing needs fixing


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software engineers and their side projects

what do you call this

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What attracted me a lot in the software craft is that I can solve the problem once and it'll be solved forever! After a decade of programming I, of course, understand how delusional I was.


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what would an IDE look like if it was focussed on ideation rather than writing code? what if you could build your own deck of lenses and you could invite others into the space with you that could bring their own? each lens being an agent / expert in a particular topic.


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Spring was an interesting, 90s object-oriented OS by Sun. Like Plan 9 it had a unified namespace. Unlike Plan 9, every object doesn't have to pretend to be a filesystem. usenix.org/conference/use…


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Linux hackers! I propose to rename "tarballs" to "deeznuts". Extension is .nut.dz. Just imagine telling the newbies to simply download and unpack 'em. Do not thank me. I'll post more ideas to improve our beloved system as I get them.


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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.


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# browser extensions and loose coupling People think of browser extensions as brittle: a site changes its CSS selectors, and bam the extension breaks. But I think the opposite: it's wild how *resilient* browser extensions often are! Consider the context: I can extend any…


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🤯 Globally, people average 6 hours and 58 minutes of screen time per day.


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"Younger programmers will be surprised by just how controversial an addition first-class functions were! Java omitted it initially, despite its designers being expert Lisp and Smalltalk programmers." semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-go…


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The StackOverflow / OpenAI integration is going well

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