José Manuel Calderón Trilla (@jmct.bsky.social) I once sat next to Dijkstra at dinner. I asked him why he didn't use category theory, as it's the ultimate theory of programming? His response was: "If I was as young as you, this is what I would do. But I'm too old now, so it's up to your generation". This was 30+ years ago.

Impact Measurement Hacks

Next time it'll *inside*, disguised as a chip.

OK, #scala3 breaks #vi cli in the repl again, apparently due to a move to Jline3. In Scala2 I used `-Xjline:vi`. How is it done now?

Das Lindner Papier: Trickle Down in Reinformat! Und Merz findet das gut!

I quite like the Erlang syntax, and that of Prolog. Yes they're different. They're not vaguely c-like, and that's a good thing, since they're *conceptually* different things.

A bad system will beat a good person every time. - W. Edwards Deming

Look what I found at my local Half-Price Books :) ML really is the new hotness (Also: the cover is hilarious in a very earnest sort of way.)

I'm old enough to remember when bitcoiners were about separation of money and state, not for the consolidation of bitcoin and state.

It’s done.

An org chart doesn’t tell you how value flows to customers. Focus on the flow, not the hierarchy.

Anyone to give a job to Igal Tabachnik? @fanf42 weren't you looking for a lead?

New reading:

Last night my team identified Nix 2.30 and Determinate Nix 3.8.0 were running macOS builds as the root user. We immediately notified the NixOS security team with full details, and stopped distributing Determinate Nix 3.8.0. Please upgrade immediately.

Hey Amazon Help (I'm not stupid -- I know you don't really exist) If you start dropping my stuff off in the rain when there's a well-established, more convenient spot that's covered, it's all coming back.

Hard naming is a smell.

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.