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Dawn Ahukanna 3h ago

Dave Rupert 4h ago

Cool tech alert: Password protected content for static sites using WASM from @TheIdOfAlan

https://al9000.com/rust/wasm/static-site-file-decryption/

Password Protecting Static Site Content with WASM

a post from alan w. smith

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

annaecook 1d ago

As teams use AI tools to generate high-fidelity prototypes, the focus shifts to output instead of purpose.

Prototyping should be about testing ideas and learning what actually works before building.

annaecook.com/writing/2026...
https://annaecook.com/writing/2026/ai-prototyping-harder-worser-faster-wronger

AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger. — Anna E. Cook

As teams use AI tools to generate high-fidelity prototypes, the focus shifts to output instead of purpose. Prototyping should be about testing ideas and learning what actually works before building.

Anna E. Cook

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

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Stephen Farrugia 4h ago

design should always be free enough to determine that the purpose is not satisfiable with whatever means is being imposed on the process

commercial constraints should be acknowledged as what they are. They are a layer of circumstance.

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

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Stephen Farrugia 4h ago

focus on making your criticism sharp. There is so much value in making an undeniable observation about how something is broken or how it could be much better.

If the designers* involved are genuine in their intent, they should not be able to ignore it.

*design is a process of purpose satisfaction, it is not figma or photoshop

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

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Stephen Farrugia 5h ago

always sucks to hear someone perfectly identify and articulate an obscure problem/purpose and then give in to pressure with a "if i had to suggest a solution..."

NO! It's ok to be good at cornering what's wrong, that's a skill

@mhoye didn't know that either.

Honestly man the more I learn about women in computing in history, the madder I am about the state of tech today.

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

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mhoye 5h ago

On a more serious note, I didn't realize that Hamilton coined the term "software engineer".

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

mhoye 5h ago

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

Nnedi Okorafor 4h ago

Tomorrow in Madison, Wisconsin:
Brittle Paper Editor, Ainehi Edoro to Moderate Nnedi Okorafor in Humanities Without Boundaries Conversation This Tuesday
https://brittlepaper.com/2026/04/brittle-paper-editor-ainehi-edoro-to-moderate-nnedi-okorafor-in-conversation-at-wisconsin-book-festival-this-tuesday/

Dawn Ahukanna 4h ago

Iris van Rooij 💭4h ago

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Excited to share new preprint (w/ @olivia)

Guest, O., Blokpoel, M., & van Rooij, I. (2026). What the Func? Multiple Realizability Need not be Vague. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19388964

This is a brief commentary on Multiple Realizability (MR).

We propose formalisations to assist theoreticians in thinking through how MR applies, at what levels, & how it can guide our modeling.

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What the Func? Multiple Realizability Need not be Vague

Abstract: Multiple realizability (MR) is not necessarily unclear nor does it purely operate at the computational level. To understand potential relationships between MR and other constraints, such as metabolic, we formalise possible meanings of function in cognitive science. We build on these to formalise MR, thus resolving its apparent vagaries. Importantly, MR formalisms meaningfully guide and constrain theory building.

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