"When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than your ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create."

- Why The Lucky Stiff

@dansup I miss _why
@james @dansup I miss _why too! Easily the most interesting book about programming ever.
@deirdresm @james @dansup they built a cool ruby ui thing and then I never really heard about them after that. I have also wondered where they are. Is this known?
@deirdresm @james @dansup I think they are okay. That’s very good to hear. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
why the lucky stiff - Wikipedia

@benjohn @james @dansup

It sounds like the story of someone who realized that programming was far more ephemeral, and it’s not a great medium if you want to make something more enduring.

@deirdresm @james @dansup I was thinking about that while mixing up some dough… it’s pretty wild, no?

Software is pretty much transcribed thought stuff.

There’s nothing inherent about it to make it any less durable than mathematics. (Digital) software has complete innate durability, and can be embodied in to an infinite variety of forms or medium, losing nothing of its message.

And yet, last year’s hot repos don’t build 🤷‍♂️