Kartik Agaram

@akkartik

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You can now quickly make any app end-user-programmable -- as long as it's built in LÖVE https://forum.malleable.systems/t/adding-malleability-to-any-love-app/90

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Tired: The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. Wired: We regret to interrupt your regularly scheduled future. It was not the future after all, please return to the past. ref: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chicken_bit

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Some thoughts on personal digital infrastructure: https://tildes.net/~talk/184n/what_did_you_do_this_week_and_weekend#comment-9l69

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Finally trying out Obsidian. Initial experience is a blank screen without bullets. Is the outliner view not the #1 feature? Do people use Obsidian for free-form text? I can copy a set of nested bullets from Obsidian to LogSeq, but the other direction loses all nested structure. Do others find paste working fine?

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"States no longer ask if they can profit through a war of conquest, but rather if they’d spend less managing the disaster that a local failed state is by invading versus trying to manage the problem via aid or controlling refugee flows." https://acoup.blog/2023/06/09/fireside-friday-june-9-2023

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"Macros work best in Common Lisp because image-based dev is a Galápagos island, enabling Turing-complete macros without a build system. Languages outside this niche should simply do away with macros. The complexity-benefit tradeoff is not worth it." https://borretti.me/article/why-lisp-syntax-works

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Every few years I google "trypophobia" to check my spelling -- and trigger my trypophobia 🤦

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The Handmade Network Discord is having a hilarious debate about what constitutes a dragon. Dragons are just like sandwiches! Who knew?! https://discord.com/channels/239737791225790464/436306224930226187/1110832951857528834

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A 15-minute manifesto http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

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5yo: Hey look, a phone booth! Superheroes go there!

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Words made Flesh "This booklet writes a small cultural history of imaginative computation, reconstructing the obsessive persistence and contradictory mutations of the phantasm that symbols turn physical." https://monoskop.org/images/e/ee/Cramer_Florian_Words_Made_Flesh_Code_Culture_Imagination.pdf

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The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever "The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation." https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-the-boldest-supply-chain-hack-ever

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Deals with the devil would work so much better if: * There were multiple competing devils; * You could publish reviews of your experience; and * They depended on repeat business from you. The trouble with the One Ring is really just the first word. Smeagol was a captive audience.

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https://world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-serverless-or-microservices-59625580 feels broadly correct, but has some epicycles. SOA vs microservices is a spectrum, not black and white. Here's a cleaner way I think about things.

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I have no moat and I must scream.

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You have a problem. The AI says, "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now you have two problems.

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Drawing a family tree for the kids using this new tool I made. https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love https://i.imgur.com/zQT1VGy.png

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