Was just reminded that the last paper rejection I got included a reviewer comment: "too much psychology for a software engineer audience."

Feels like it should maybe be a new bio quote šŸ˜‚ it's absolutely true of me. It's absolutely true.

@grimalkina Maybe the stuff is too good for the journals.
@chemoelectric backalley open access preprints you can quietly give your friends is where my best work is, truly. I think the highest quality work and writing I've done is contained in these preprints

@grimalkina In fundamental physics you cannot find quality stuff at all in the ā€˜elite’ journals. There they publish only utter nonsense.

(I’m not a physicist, thank goodness. A retired computer programmer with an engineering education, but who dabbles in a few physics topics without publishing except from a soapbox. But I do subscribe to the ACM Digital Library!)

@grimalkina I write code. I lace my code and READMEs with ā€˜psychological’ commentary. Lately it has been stuff about how, no, it is not R⁷RS Scheme that is reactionary, it is R⁶RS Scheme that was reactionary, because it rejected the SRFIs. I actually stick this stuff in my libraries because I think it explains a lot.