What I really like about Jai and Verse is that they iterate on their ideas semi-privately instead of putting them out into the open immediately. Backwards compatibility with half-baked ideas is a scourge to be avoided at all costs.

Generate 50,000 lines of technical debt with a single prompt.

It's a valid criticism of Lisp machines that it was all one big soup of objects without any access control. But OTOH that's also how most modern desktop OSes work (for all filesystem objects within a user account).

People don't actually read scientific papers - they get into them like a hot bath. (with apologies to Marshall McLuhan)

It would be so simple: just show your fucking products. But no, designoors can't do that.

All the talk about geographical location is very much opposed to the ideals of cyberspace.

TIL that a type in TypeScript means literally nothing. Any value can be of any type. It's literally just a vibe. So I guess I'll stick to more stringent type validation using plain old JS runtime instanceof assertions.

It's really weird to be a dynamic typing aficionado and to be arguing for more stringent type checking than what's available with TypeScript but here we are.

The older I get, the more I like the idea of reducing any interaction with untrusted strangers to a simple 1-dimensional counter (as in e.g. a joint-stock company).

Clearly the future of applications in an OS is to be simply a URL: you don't "install" anything, you simply say "run the-app.example.com", and the binary is transparently downloaded (and you can bookmark it if you like it). (Tools like npx are already doing this of course.)

I don't understand native apps for phones. The X app is like a 100 gigabyte download and offers exactly the same experience (or maybe even worse) as the web app.

ELI5 why Google (or anyone else) doesn't have working product search.

Rust's biggest achievement might be annoying C programmers so much that they finally made it memory-safe.

I think Tufte is wrong about this. A subtle cartoonish emphasis helps UIs achieve the goal of making humans think the displayed things are real.