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Processing Project Lead at Processing Foundation.
I am an experimental musician in NYC, a software developer, and life long learner.
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sorry i just was reminded of "webP"
paternalism in tech spaces is so funny to me. like dudes can't talk any other way or it'll bring up therapy issues for them
so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?
take it from me, an Arab from Arabia: when white men talk about bringing you "democracy" they're probably trying to kill you
learning too much about github actions...

After using gentoo for the past year or so, dealing with ubuntu is such a horrible experience. from the online docs that aren't AI generated but definitely give AI slop vibes,, to the incoherence of package management it is just a really sad state of affairs.

Google SEO also led to slop?

this isn't a scientific post

NYU strike was mentioned on Democracy Now! today.

A new Rust language design post from boxy (my ???): https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/

This is a complex topic, and as the post itself says, it is a bit "lacking in smallness". 100% worth digging into though if you're interested in #rust or the theory of programming language design.

TL;DR: coherence (which is responsible for the orphan rule about trait impls) causes problems with ecosystem lock-in. If we introduce the idea of named trait impls we might be able to do away with it!

An Incoherent Rust

Coherence and the orphan rules are a frequent source of complaints about Rust, and a common topic of language proposals. This post covers most of the existing proposals around coherence and my vision for how we should solve coherence once and for all.

Will be at wondies for livecode soon
metaverse wasn't inevitable
ar glasses weren't inevitable
blockchain wasn't inevitable
nfts we'rent inevitable
ai isn't inevitable
nothing is inevitable!!!!
the ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make
and could just as easily make differently
make choices
make choices
make choices