@elseweather

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SWE in Seattle. Our systems may be formal or informal, local or distributed, manual or autonomous, but above all we must make them human and understandable.
I dunno how long I can keep doing this.
This shit all sucks man
sometimes the bits are in jail

RE: https://mastodon.social/@elseweather/116168995760722258

Software development is, of course, mostly carrier bag theory building. We put bits in boxes, buckets, packets, and containers and ferry them around

it's also awesome how they're constantly smoking on the submarines
strikes me as a fruitful angle for a lot of classic Dad Movies. pulp fiction revolved around a literal carrier bag. die hard is about the people who happen to be bagged up in nakatomi plaza. war movies are all bags of guys
I'm watching the hunt for red october and thinking about the carrier bag theory of fiction. all these scared little men in their bags under the sea
I don't want to see the transcript from people's AI tools. I don't care if it said something funny or wrong or whatever. I don't give a shit
I'm anti- magic