1/ We independent researchers like to see ourseveles as fearless foragers. But if we're not careful, we often end up retracing well worn paths
2/ In the #futureofcoding community, we get into various paradigms/topics: blocks, node-and-wires, projectional editors, DSLs, VPLs, OOP, FP, FRP, LISPs, type systems, smalltalks, debuggers, viualizers, direct manipulation, WYSIWYG, program synthesis, formal methods, ...
Jan 12, 2019 • 19 tweets • 2 min read
1/ For fun I sometimes like to shock non-programmers about how utterly broken software development is... rant thread 👇
2/ Pick your favorite piece of software: instagram, docs, email, Twitter, the Tesla autopilot, whatever
Nov 29, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🥳 Future of Coding London meetup #1!
Love meeting internet friends in IRL! So amazing when someone's real personality doesn't match your expectation of them from their online persona
Oct 8, 2018 • 17 tweets • 2 min read
Musising from my first week in London...
Too many Pret a Manger's, not enough Chipotle's... or any Mexican food really
Aug 10, 2018 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
1/7 If there’s more than one way to encode an idea (in fully reduced form), you’re not being abstract/specific enough. Your encoding is lossy.
2/7 For example, filtering out the even values from a list must be something like: filter list even. While/for/each loop bullshit are all too low level
