Where is this "billionaire bro chain" fashion nod deriving from?
(fashion etymology)

“Zero code/low code is actually a bullshit engineering goal. What you want is zero/low configuration.”

↑ 
Coupled with intuitive state rollback (aka robust version control, with automatic conflict resolution)

cc @yeoro.eth

Even "code" is a "no-code/low-code" engineering goal.  
That's what "higher level" languages are...it's for the humans (🧠), not the machines (🤖).

“Any sufficiently complicated system eventually becomes an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common LISP.”

the performance art
of a personality
on stage, off stage, blue.

KarlTheFog on vacation from SF in New Zealand.

Crisp winter ❄️ mornings in New Zealand are the best!

GM everyone.

Sometimes deep silence 
Is all you can hear amidst
The noise of the world.

Modern commuter ticketing systems (with no cash escape hatches) are kinda junk-ware compared to how i remember it used to be. 

“A cruder present for a richer past”  — Kay

Lego is the matlab of physical design

Zero mucking around with configurations and environments. Just fire it up and go, most things are intuitive and don't need any/much lookup, and for the few things that do, there is excellent documentation.

Zero code/low code is actually a bullshit engineering goal. What you want is zero/low configuration.

Coding is actually easy, even for lay people, once you give them a design language that's fit to the domain in a way that draws on intuitions. Nobody really needs to be "taught" the syntax or grammar of Lego. It is self-evident.

 It is configuration that is a nightmare, and if you can get it to zero, you have a winning engineering dev environment.

db.team → SuperBenefitDAO, All in For Sport → "purpose aligned networks of small autonomous teams”


Daily rant: why do people like iMessage? 

- 2nd worst in spam  (after telegram)   
- doesn't sync contacts and some conversations to desktop 
- lets one person have many identities (phone + email) 
- almost no one has pfps 
- tapbacks are boomer

I get why people use it, but why do some people actually prefer it

evolution → involution
ascending → descending

Deepest mysteries of reality...does ALWAYS somehow end up coming back to some version of those 🍟 on the pier!

Nothing gonna driver the exodus away from node.js like the NIGHTMARE that is legacy CJS builds alongside ESM.

Some of the streak numbers that started within a day of "streaks" being invented by @dwr.eth on FC/Warpcast are gonna become insanely valuable to the individuals involved.

("status seeking monkey" looks for any gambit! 🙉🙊🙈)

Break it you own it,
Take great care with commitments.
“No” leaves space for “Yes.”

"any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

ref: https://youtu.be/oZaKNBANlcI?si=EVTGa155M6Ft-EY1&t=30

How "ruggable" are the Llama models with the new OSS licensing?

Are these safe (as in "open commons" safe) to use? Or is this a likely to be a bate-n-switch move some way down the road? Or something in between or an entirely different consideration is more important?

How would the smart folks with there heads deep in LLM land read the technical tea leaves on this one?

I'm super encouraged that OSS is turning up as a resilient alternative to closed <Frontier> foundation models.  Such good smells!  

But the "fool me once..." scar tissue memories re <Facebook→Meta> is hard to shake.

You have no idea.
Ideas will often have you.
Get out of the way.

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → phil.cockfield.net, db.team →  ƒ(trust / time) →  ƒ(open-commons) → ƒ( /sys )  ← @cell primitive<T> 🧫

Phil Cockfield

@pjc