"you didn't explain anything, you just described an analogy in terms of a more complex analogy" | also @modernbutt @alt_modernserf | they/them
May 10, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
my programming language brainworm is trying to get me to design a syntax that makes people as angry as Lisp does, but in a wholly original way, and without making the syntax intentionally obtuse or verbose
- whitespace sensitive
- uses arithmetic operators for something other than arithmetic (like objective-C methods)
- "natural language" like hypertalk/applescript
Jan 21, 2019 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
I know a lot of people identify with this article but the divide that this article presents makes zero sense to me css-tricks.com/the-great-divi…
You could make a case for splitting the field between "UX Engineer" and "Frontend Infrastructure Engineer" maybe? But the skill sets would still be mostly overlapping
Oct 29, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
a little over two years ago, i started @writetospeaknyc, a "writer's workshop" for conference talks. it had an okay run but it never really developed a regular crowd; more to the point I don't think I ever really got it to achieve the purpose I had set out for
like, my _small_ goal was just to get my talks accepted at more conferences, and my acceptance rate actually went down; my _large_ goal was to further the art form of the technical talk and I don't think I even had the courage to admit that was a goal until now
