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Oct 19, 2020

🧵Using this pinned tweet thread as a better twitter bio made of representative old tweets. I'm best known as a programmer and computer scientist, so we'll start with this thread of old OS ideas ripe for further exploration:

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stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/31/700

Sep 1, 2020

I've been thinking about roads not taken lately, wondering whether we should revisit some of them...

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Dwarf Fortress developer discovers, as many have, that brittle Java/C++ style object hierarchies will ultimately betray you in a long running software project. /via

@leppert

49 fonts and more in 2022

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A long-time fave in my RSS reader is

@alphabettes_org

, which features work in typography done by women. For example, check out this post of 49 new fonts released in 2022 :)

alphabettes.org

As we say goodbye to 2022, let's sip some champagne and celebrate a few things we accomplished this year.Since January, we've featured 49 new font releases on our Instagram account. Kudos to Marí

Jan 28

A quick look into when houses turned into savings vehicles, ruining everything for everyone.

Stephan Thiel stephan@vis.social

@stphnthiel

Jan 25

Happy to have released this demo into the wild with

@christian_au

@moritz_stefaner

👉 Automatically generate fact-based insights for strategic analyses, so you can focus on the important questions faster and with more time swotbot.ai 1/3

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Christian Au

@christian_au

Can #AI support the #strategy process in companies? Proud to present the first public prototype of the #SWOT Bot (swotbot.ai)

Fact-based insights based on company news

Fine-tuned language models for strategy Q&A

A PowerPoint presentation ready for prime time

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Jan 25

Great team on this project.

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Christian Au

@christian_au

Can #AI support the #strategy process in companies? Proud to present the first public prototype of the #SWOT Bot (swotbot.ai)

Fact-based insights based on company news

Fine-tuned language models for strategy Q&A

A PowerPoint presentation ready for prime time

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A fast, minimal JS triple store implementation in ~70 lines of code

In case anyone is interested in a minimal but surprisingly performant Triplestore implementation in Javascript...

gist.github.com

A fast, minimal JS triple store implementation in ~70 lines of code - trinity.js

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@inconvergent

back on my generative mesh and raytracer bullshit

François Chollet

@fchollet

Been working with Python for 13 years and I still occasionally end up with a hopelessly borked environment where I have to actually nuke and reinstall the Python interpreter. And yes, I use virtualenv

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Huw Groucutt

@huw_groucutt

Jan 20

Sapiens by Harari.

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Ned Richardson-Little

@HistoryNed

Jan 19

Would love to see an academic version of this: what pop history book has done the most damage in your particular subfield? twitter.com/IfBooksPod/sta…

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Duff's device - Wikipedia

Jan 20

In case this is too much of an inside joke…

en.m.wikipedia.org

*gestures vaguely at recent Twitter programming discourse* This is what peak performance looks like.

Reminds me somehow of this bit from Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman...

laphamsquarterly.org

Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom

“Did you ever discover or hear tell of the atomic theory?” the sergeant inquired. “No,” I answered. He leaned his mouth confidentially over to my ear. “Would it surprise you to be told,” he said

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@woolypixel

Jan 19

In case anyone has been trying to contact me over the last 2 wks without success, it's bc I've been teaching "Radical Networks" every day at

@IMA_NYU

Berlin. Today we have an exhibition of all IMA student works at Weise7. Join us from 8pm tonight!

These new DNA test results look weird...

Szymon Kaliski → @szymon_k@mas.to

@szymon_k

Jan 18

🔭 I'm looking for a new long-term role! I believe that there's a ton of untapped potential in computing, and that a lot of it is limited by (broadly understood) interfaces. Background/interests/context here: szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/202? Let's chat: hi@szymonkaliski.com RT=❤️

szymonkaliski.com

Q4 2022

Hi, the last quarter flew by — I was mostly working on finishing documentations of various projects (which you'll see below), and recovering…

Ben is in BK

@pieratttt

Jan 17

🗽🍎 NYC! I'll be in BK a lot in February. Seeing friends and interviewing for jobs. Hoping to find an on-site CD role/team to run with ^_^ A. Would love to buy you a coffee! hmu B. Know of any CD roles I should interview for? C. DM meeee 📥

Gilad Bracha

@Gilad_Bracha

Jan 15

I wrote a new blog post: Don't Serf the Internet. bit.ly/3iGMp36

The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)

Jan 14

“Mouse buttons and modifier keys give us a vocabulary equivalent to a few different grunts. We have lost all the power of language, and can no longer talk about objects that are not immediately visible.” An old favorite recently reshared by

@dubroy

…

nngroup.com

We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.

Great chat between

and Sam Ritchie about the latter's work bringing computer algebra and mathematical modeling to Clojure, including porting an executable version of a classic physics textbook: therepl.net/episodes/47/

Tomasz Łakomy

@tlakomy

Jan 13

Live footage of your internal wiki @ work

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies

Jan 13

"Software is the insights of the development team made manifest. Software has no life on its own but exists as a kind of cyborg simultaneously in the programmers and the code."

baldurbjarnason.com

(What follows is an extract from Out of the Software Crisis) Programming as theory-building The building of the program is the same as the building of the theory of it by and in the team of program...

Jan 13

All known, all ignored for a few petrodollars more…

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Geoffrey Supran

@GeoffreySupran

Jan 12

NEW: In @ScienceMagazine today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.

No pay wall for 2 weeks: bit.ly/ExxonKnew2poin

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30 Minute Chat - Luke Gorrie

Luke Gorrie

@lukego

Jan 11

I'm bootstrapping a new Lisp startup, Permo, building an /automatic software performance modelling/ product. If that sounds interesting then let's book a friendly chat at calendly.com/lukego/chat !

calendly.com

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Gilad Bracha

@Gilad_Bracha

Jan 10

Laurie takes the trouble to overwhelmingly demonstrate that there's no such thing as "an interpreted language" or "a compiled language"

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Laurence Tratt

@laurencetratt

Jan 10

New blog: Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato tratt.net/laurie/blog/20

My encounter with Medley Interlisp — Paolo Amoroso's Journal

Mariano Guerra

@warianoguerra

Jan 9

📰 Future of Coding Weekly 🧰 #Moldable Live Programming 🎙 Programming as Theory Building 🐢 #Homoiconic Spreadsheets ✍️ Solving Problems with Fuzzy Constraints 🔗 tinyletter.com/marianoguerra/ 🗣

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A good writeup of what it's like to play with Medley Interlisp-D, which is something you can do right now using a virtual machine:

journal.paoloamoroso.com

Imagine someone let you into an alien spaceship they landed in your backyard, sat you at the controls, and encouraged you to fly the ship...

“Modular construction is a powerful strategy for controlling complexity in engineering design.” — Abelson & Sussman, SICP

Cristóbal Valenzuela

@c_valenzuelab

Jan 6

The unexplored emerging qualities of generative models will most likely be uncovered by multidisciplinary teams of artists, hackers, and researchers. It requires a unique cross-domain experience and non-traditional backgrounds.

Jan 6

Same control surface used to pilot a 3D generalization of the Superformula, which exports STL meshes for rendering/printing. I built this wireframe preview on top of

@generateme_blog

's Clojure2D so I wouldn't have any non-Clojure deps, but might do a GL thing later for speed.

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3D intersection of two superformulas to produce a Space Flower…

JUXT Blog: Using Clerk for Advent of Code

JUXT

@juxtpro

Jan 5

#AdventOfCode2022 may be over, but why let that stop you grabbing those last stars? JUXT's Ellis K shows us how to use

@usenextjournal

's #Clerk as an interactive (and fun) problem-solving environment

juxt.pro

Notebooks <3 Clojure

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Super cool! Even if the end-user UI is something else, I’m excited by the concept of real tools for working under the hood (

@GeePawHill

calls this a “making app”). But being able to to it ~inline with the prod app is a superpower.

Through the looking glass w Data Rabbit: "A System built for Seeing"...

Jan 4

There's a lot to like in

@ryrobes

's Data Rabbit — dataflow programming, auto-generated nodes whose code you can edit after the fact, &c. Check it out!

youtube.com

In a world full of notebooks and REPLs - why can't "thinking in Clojure" be more akin to a data-aware whiteboard? A free-form place for ideas, iterations, an...

Moldable Live Programming with Clerk (by Philippa Markovics)

Jan 4

Excellent short video from

@unkai

on the many use cases of Clerk. A much needed corrective to the perception that it's only for making "notebooks" in the Jupyter sense!

youtube.com

Clerk is an open-source programmer’s assistant for Clojure that combines the advantages of notebooks like Jupyter, Smalltalk-style Moldable Development, and ...

Julien Gachadoat

@v3ga

Jan 3

Recently I’ve been working on recoding the programs of the book "Dessins géométriques et artistiques avec votre micro-ordinateur" with #p5js. Around 250 sketches were recoded using a tiny custom js lib. 👉 github.com/v3ga/dessins_g

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