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Apr 16, 2023 at 03:53
Thoughtful article about building older software with Nix: https://blinry.org/nix-time-travel/ It's striking how a project that does so much excellent work on build reproducibility still has some build errors in this scenario. Bitrot is scary.
Building 15-year-old software with Nix
Building 15-year-old software with Nix
Several people around me have been talking about Nix lately, and say that it

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Oct 24, 2023 at 03:01
Really thoughtful critique of the Language Server Protocol, what IDEs need to express, and the design decisions made.
LSP could have been better
We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.
Dec 15, 2022 at 03:53
Thoughtful article on the long term consequences of AI generated art, copyright, the art industry and historical innovations (e.g. the invention of the camera):
AI Art Panic
If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art need tagged as such? Should it be allowed at all? There’s the whole Deviant Art situation (ArsTechnica). It’s all sorta messy right now, so let’s talk about it.
Oct 25, 2022 at 04:53
A live demo of how you edit BASIC code (its REPL equivalent) inside a thoughtful article on how we interact with programming languages:
The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
How we interact with programming environment matters more than the language, but such interaction has never been widely studied. Inspired by the idea of