writer, programmer
programming
An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson Behind this dry title lies something very interesting. I first heard about this paper from Ralph Johnson in a newsgroup discussion about program correctness. It turns out that one of the avenues that engineers
open-source
Can Patreon help sustain open source projects financially?
open-source
This strategy is closely related to the concept of “whales” in gaming, in which 1 to 2 percent of users drive 80 percent of gaming companies’ revenue (View Highlight) I've noticed something similar with Stenography. Most users don't pay at all, but those who choose to
entrepreneurship
to gain fans who are willing to pay $1,000 a year—no small sum—creators need to offer a step-function increase in value. The recipe, then, is to go niche and to tap into users’ desire for results. Practically, what does that look like? It means providing differentiated content,
interior-design
Halving requirements is the same as doubling capacity. - Nigel Calder Whenever I buy something new, I try to ask myself how hard it will be to rid myself of the item. This helps decrease the blow of moving substantially and causes you to take better care of your items
programming
Orca is an esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers in which each letter of the alphabet is an operation, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. The application is not a synthesiser, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP
anime
What are the top 10 thoughts of the Survey Corps from Attack on Titan?
social-media
We hire social media to create a virtual representation of the life we want to live, but never actually live it. I wonder if this is as true in the TikTok era as it was in the Instagram era. It seems that TikTok has much less "self seriousness"
programming
Sometimes you have to stop sharpening the saw, and just start cutting shit Some people tend to jump into problems and just start writing code. Other people tend to want to research and research and get caught in analysis paralysis. In those cases, set a deadline for yourself and just
programming
If you don’t have a good grasp of the universe of what’s possible, you can’t design a good system This is something I struggle with a lot as my responsibilities take me further and further from the day to day of software engineering. Keeping up with the
ai
People don’t really want innovation People talk about innovation a whole lot, but what they are usually looking for is cheap wins and novelty. If you truly innovate, and change the way that people have to do things, expect mostly negative feedback. If you believe in what you’re
programming
Your data is the most important part of your system I’ve seen a lot of systems where hope was the primary mechanism of data integrity. In systems like this, anything that happens off the golden path creates partial or dirty data. Dealing with this data in the future can