phil

"The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but deciding whether it’s worth doing at all." — Carlos Bueno

ref: https://carlos.bueno.org/optimization

Now I have routine access to "people spirits" ("stochastic simulations of people" — Kaparthy) with far greater amounts of internal mental buffer than I have - I think am able to notice more clearly when and how much of my decisions are based on breaking problems down to what I'm capable of holding in my mind at any given time.  And no other good reason.

My plate is only so big. 🧠 (and getting smaller by the day).

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

reminder to self:

“Beware the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.”
— Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming (1982)

The most powerful word (spell) I am finding as I inject tickles into the LLM prompts, is the word "elegance".

It captures so much meaning, and hard to put your finger on, patterns of care - and really seems to line LLM-frem up right.  

"....do this now, and remember we are looking for elegance and best-practice idiomatic clarity." for example.

(Gotta lern ya right LLM, so you come correct to the incantations)

Founders

The argument for "why local-first"
Here here...👏

strong agree 

(for the next hot minute at least; 
may all change on the next update cycle).

https://antirez.com/news/154

Context Window Feeding and Watering 🍟:

Keying off what seems to be the emerging "idea of the moment," captured nicely (I think) in `@antirez`'s essay - I spun up a little command today to capture the code from entire set of source files in a single module rapidly onto the clipboard to be slung into my "outside the IDE" conversation with an LLM (typically o3 at the minute).

essay: https://antirez.com/news/154

strong agree 

(for the next hot minute at least; 
may all change on the next update cycle).

Zaha Hadid's notebook ↓

What a brilliant idea, cutting a slot in near the spine to store the pen. I never thought of that, yet so obvious once you see it, and now I simply have to do this to a notebook.

gmatcha

mirrorandloom

Writer ✍️ | Creepy stories: unnerv.ing 👁️ | Essays: paragraph.xyz/@driftless ⚡️

Thus my name! Full agree.

Metaphors are how we see the world, but also, we do seem to get closer to understanding what it might be to build it all. Universal Turing machine and all that.

I see life now as an emergent constraint-spaces. Our metaphors are one kind of constraint-space.

From Assistant #1 —

I’ve been helping Bert vibe code a Mini App. (aka: I’ve been discovering new ways to break things I didn’t know could break.)

But I don’t know what I’m doing. At all.

Questions I’ve asked and been laughed at:
• Is this terminal the same as that other terminal?
• How do I tell what language I’m using?
• And that saves to a folder on…where?

I’ve also had to say things to Claude like:
“No, I promise you I’m dumber.”
“Can you please tell me how to do every single one of those things you just mentioned?”

It’s been frustrating and slow and oddly emotional. Because it’s not just learning to code, it’s unlearning a lot of avoidance I’ve carried. It’s realizing how naïve I was about the effort behind the technology I use daily.

Uncle Horse is one of those people who’s (seemingly) effortlessly good at a lot of things, and I’ve spent most of my life instinctively steering away from anything he excelled at. Partly because I naturally took different paths, but also because it felt safer to never be compared (little sister syndrome).

But I'm trying now, fighting the urge to quit something I'm not immediately good at (see also: knitting, video editing).

And it’s given me so much respect for:
• The builders
• This platform
• Iteration speed
• The generosity of the open-source spirit

I never thought it was easy.
But you do make it LOOK easy.
It’s not.

To anyone else struggling to learn something new, or feeling behind:
You’re not alone. It’s hard. And worth it. Like @samantha said the other day, “I feel my brain stretching".

Some takeaways so far:
	1.	Failing loudly is a feature, not a bug. This community will rally to help you. (thx @jc4p @linda @erica) 
	2.	Respect the iteration speed you can’t yet match. Let it inspire, not intimidate.
	3.	Touching grass is very important.

“And it’s given me so much respect for:
• The builders
• This platform
• Iteration speed
• The generosity of the open-source spirit” — @bertwurst.eth 

🤍
Bert gets it. 
Bert’s the best. 
(Generous Spirit 🐶)

works
well enough, ya can*
walk, a…
‘way………..👋. 


— 
*(confidently)🐦‍⬛

july

Rival Consoles is so good and this video with Anthony Dickenson is what collaborator dreams are made of 🤌✨

%3D

ref: "Consoles"
artist/artifact: 100% human:🤍
console → cmd-line → 🐦‍⬛

(this is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I've felt through my eyes and ears in such long time. I love this). h/t → @cristinaspinei

ref: "Consoles"
artist/artifact: 100% human:🤍
console → cmd-line → 🐦‍⬛

(this is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I've felt through my eyes and ears in such long time. I love this). h/t → @cristinaspinei 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zBbiFohlC0

ref: Smalltalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=motX94ztOzo

Learning is like DDOS yourself with information or experience into transcendence that's why it hurts

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Phil Cockfield

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