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Just yesterday I was discussing many of the ideas presented here with a coworker. I had just walked out of a workshop led by $BIGTECHCOMPANY where someone presented the following t…

This observation really resonates with me. I have spent a lot of energy trying to communicate that ditching formal languages for natural language is a terrible idea in some (most?)…

Intro to The Napoleon of Notting Hill, by G.K. Chesterton: "THE human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will…

I needed to replace my 2010 macbook air and after much consideration I ordered a maxed-out (excepting SSD) 2015 mbp last week. Buying previous generation hardware feels weird, I ho…

In case anyone enjoys reading about the history of control systems, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics by David Mindell is so much fun t…

I can't wait to write a nyan cat app for the TouchBar. Hopefully the next XCode build will include a TouchBar simulator so there's no need for me to get a new MBP in order to work …

In case anyone is interested here is a HN page-mode for Conkeror I wrote a while back: https://github.com/legumbre/hackernews-mode It makes the site a bit easier to navigate.