Evan Hackett @hackett_evan

Joined August 2016

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Bret Victor @worrydream

a year ago

★ Dynamicland's new website documents ten years of progress toward a humane dynamic medium. dynamicland.org

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Steve Jobs once said that software is just what you didn’t have time to get into hardware. Alan Kay once said that “hardware is just software crystallized early”. They are both getting at the same profound link between HW/SW, but from totally different perspectives!

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Andy Matuschak @andy_matuschak

a year ago

Malleable software efforts may unexpectedly benefit from AI integration efforts! Apple wants Siri to be able to understand and act on data in apps, so it needs devs to expose their nouns and verbs. So we get high-DX modern versions of, roughly, AppleScript dictionary APIs!

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Evan Hackett @hackett_evan

a year ago

"not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain." -- Geoffrey Jefferson, 1949.

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Steve McLeod @steveofmcleod

a year ago

Early in my career, I joined a project that used a lot of SQL. I was new to SQL so I found an “intro to SQL” book on the company bookshelf, and read it over a weekend. From that point on, I was seen as an SQL expert amongst colleagues. It was a revelation about our industry.

Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis

a year ago

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Evan Hackett @hackett_evan

2 years ago

New Beatles song just dropped (a week ago): youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2…

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David A Smith @gocroquet

3 years ago

You must see this. Scott McCloud, an amazing cartoonist (wrote "Understanding Comics") breaks down what Chrome is really doing to you and the world. It is also extremely well done and entertaining as one would expect from him. contrachrome.com

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Evan Hackett @hackett_evan

4 years ago

One advantage of the old days, I suppose, was that computers were so slow that you could stop a mistaken `rm -r` before it had done much damage :D

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Evan Hackett @hackett_evan

4 years ago

TIL that the IRC protocol is so simple you can use netcat as a client without much difficulty :D

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Evan Hackett @hackett_evan

4 years ago

"I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing." --Ken Thompson source: web.archive.org/web/2008010307…