Tech Fantasies and Impostor Syndrome

The description is everything. It has a more local target with where it goes, but the starting premise has repercussions that shake this civilization deeply, I in countless ways:

> Software is opaque, unknowable.

This ain't just about software practitioners, it's about mankind having built a far off remote invisible kingdom that actually is 4 dimensionally (many dimensionally) all around us all the time.

This IMO is the only interesting fight now. Theres trends & tech & control happening that matters, but this question is mostly social, mostly cultural, of whether we walk forever into proprietary consumerized walled gardens, or whether the general project of computing finds a stake where it can uncloak & reveal a true self to the public, whether we can find good common roots to express ourselves with, that can be useful to everyone not wearing developer monk robes.

Re: Tech Fantasies and Impostor Syndrome

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Post by nottrobin » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 11:48 PM UTC

rektide wrote: post #3

richardjam73 wrote: post #2

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Some struggles apparent making the blog work in the git history. I can read along here, https://github.com/nottrobin/robinwinslow.uk/blob/main/_arti... There's another attempt to repush things up here, seems the same, https://github.com/nottrobin/robinwinslow.uk/blob/main/_arti...

Working now, sorry

Re: Tech Fantasies and Impostor Syndrome

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Post by nottrobin » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 11:49 PM UTC

rektide wrote: post #4

The description is everything. It has a more local target with where it goes, but the starting premise has repercussions that shake this civilization deeply, I in countless ways: > Software is opaque, unknowable. This ain't just about software practitioners, it's about mankind having built a far off remote invisible kingdom that actually is 4 dimensionally (many dimensionally) all around us all the time. This IMO is…

Yes, completely agree. It did occur to me that I could have taken this into the political realm but decided to keep it bounded in software practice itself for now.

Maybe a follow-up soon.

Re: Tech Fantasies and Impostor Syndrome

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Post by rektide » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 12:53 AM UTC

nottrobin wrote: post #5

rektide wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some struggles apparent making the blog work in the git history. I can read along here, https://github.com/nottrobin/robinwinslow.uk/blob/main/_arti... There's another attempt to repush things up here, seems the same, https://github.com/nottrobin/robinwinslow.uk/blob/main/_arti...

Working now, sorry

No problem! I love being able to read the commit log & see the wip.