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@archiloque
Thank you for this, somehow found myself reading a bunch of these overnight and now I’m wondering whether there could be an equivalent of the New York Review of Books but for software and coding.
Like, the essays covering several different systems or articles and pulling together insights across the history of an area are just so fascinating, and people are doing it in ways that require discovery.
I’ve been reading the NYRB lately to ground myself in good human writing as an antidote to LLM slop, and maybe that’s why I’m so taken by the idea 😅
A friend of mine and the closest thing I have ever seen to a 10x developer would do side project iPhone apps in every architecture style of interest to him: Apple’s MVC style, purist MVC style, MVVM, no-singletons, etc etc. He would spend 40-100+ hours on these things, polishing them for release like they were for a real client.
And by trying to be architecturally pure in a complex app, he’d find all the places that didn’t fit the model. Then he’d try to come up with ways around that inside the design constraints. A real puzzle-box approach to the thing, as part of his professional development without the pressure to ship by a date.
Turns out that that is how you give yourself superpowers.
Other devs would come along suggesting a rewrite in the latest hotness from the curséd orange site, and he would walk them through the things that would be better, the things that would be worse, the things that would become impossible, and the kinds of tradeoffs that would have to be made in order to ship. Just amazing to see people wilt when they saw what real long term investment in your professional skills and knowledge looks like, versus spouting off about the fashionable thing that you’ve never actually tried.
Anyway, that’s when I realized how many projects have failed because people believed in things they did not understand.
@jawnsy @bcantrill
This was super interesting, because last night I was reading the latest Steve Yegge posts on how vibe coding is going for him, and there’s a lot of “Start Rebellion, collapse into Accretion” going on there.
His switch from Plan-oriented to Bugtracker-oriented may actually fit the Revolutionary paradigm, if he can see it through
#free to a good home: snowboards and a bag, some pants and a shell jacket, gloves and bindings. Clearing out the shed for the first time since Covid!
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Also love this quote:
“Musk can’t even exit. All that crypto-libertarian fantasy about “exit” and seasteading and network states—it was always cope. You can’t exit power when the person wielding it controls access to the government contracts your companies depend on, the regulatory environment your businesses operate in, and the geopolitical decisions that determine whether your satellites stay in orbit”
@chrisjrn
That is awesome. Should be more writer / chain store mashups.
- Piketty’s Capital Records
- Plato’s Banana Republic
- bed bath and beyond good and evil