Complexity is unattractive to the job market. They want you to be a cog they can easily put into a machine - a specialist with clearly defined boundaries. They will want you to give up what makes you special - and you can't let that happen.

I have a real soft spot for metaprogramming, which means I'm always trying to reconcile "metaprogramming is so cool" with "ruby and scala tried it and it sucked". My current idea: metaprogramming should only be used in metaprograms, which take programs as input

So beautiful & ominous at the same time 🤯

A+ usage of visual language state machines driving the functionality, interface is beautiful

This afternoon I decided to write a second app using Focus, the framework I'm building for the Open Book. This project tracker app for the adafruit industries MagTag demonstrates Views, ViewControllers, Actions and much more; still a ways to go, but it feels usable! gist.github.com/joeycastillo/e…

Cool use of an Arduino Teensy as game controller for iOS

Now? 10 year aged cheddar, of course 😉. Also, switching to Muenster for grilled cheese was amazing, it's perfect.

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