seeing http://worrydream.com/July2023/ i’m struck by the idea that dynamicland as it exists is a project that is defined by its main steward and locale but not by a greater audience that might be capable of deploying it or even interacting with it. his reluctance to general adoption reminds me of the way that people carp about Major Players embrace/extend/extinguish strategy with open protocols at the same time that they try to advocate for retaining control of the protocol.

bret operates like an Artist but it’s hard to square the way he wraps it in the trappings of Academic Research, that is, he’s making his own thing, has a body of work, has a clear Direction and Process but is wholly uninterested in other people generally doing his thing. arguably most researchers are not super invested in ‘a working dialog’ with some random crank with a github account, but it’s, i think, telling, that nobody has been invested enough to try to reproduce the DL Magic™ and he seems uninterested in it becoming an actual general purpose environment, more than he’s interested in it being his own kind of Warhol Factory (or parc, yes, yes, i know).

in the sense that DL has felt unsatisfying, it’s probably largely to do with the tension between it being very obviously a working Studio centered around bret’s practice but attempting to operate like a research group.

hilarious to speculate as to why my post settings on my phone have been set to “unlisted” for god knows how long, replying to random accts in the last two weeks and crickets

thinking about how i once proposed that we name a grad studio book "repetition equals emphasis"

Duolingo’s new Unicode lessons just dropped.

remain absolutely baffled at the number of people who get into cs who a) hate to read b) hate to write more than a few words at a time.

it's interesting to me that i've tried writing a lightweight TIL style blog post and failed a few times before just writing a gist that annotated some code i had written along the way. the gist isn't even that interesting, but it's interesting to me (all that matters tbh)

@durumcrustulum yo d, i finally got around to listening to the musk in the middle episode and like 2/3 the way through the audio gets totally messed up @tqbf 's channel got unmuted and shifted over so it was overlapped on a completely unrelated set of conversation (more than usual in any case :p)

this sucks for the community, but the irony of an entity suffering an unexpected problem involving private insurers, medicare, medicaid, inability to find work during a pandemic resulting a collapse into financial ruin and actually wait it's a hospital and not a private individual is just a messed up system.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/illinois-hospital-links-closure-ransomware-attack-rcna85983

it’s weird to see people complaining about how usable or confounding swift macros make the language for beginners and like, did they all forget how confounding manual memory management and objc’s object lifecycle was for jr devs as well???? did they think everyone just “got” pointers??? nothing is intuitively obvious

when i posted this in… 2019, it struck me as indicative of how upper middle class people had rationalized their “economic anxiety,” the realization of visible, tangible achievement marred by the post-2008 reality of its precariousness compared to their parents or older siblings.

but looking now, i feels it better captures the nonsense behind crypto and web3—a whole cohort of people roughly my age who missed, by virtue of age or being in school, the spoils of both web 1.0 and 2.0, who had arrived at well paying tech jobs just a little too late for the golden equity offer, felt they had accepted the right job at the wrong startup, or just not exited as early as they had hoped and who desperately wanted, needed, to find a way to manufacture a movement they could helm, that would lead them to the kinds of prosperity they had seen as just out of reach during the years they were still struggling to establish themselves.

https://nsfmc.tumblr.com/post/184259789624/its-good-to-be-in-something-from-the-ground

total monkeys paw shit getting a max pro that’s just a mac studio bolted to a bunch of pci slots. want lots of drives or m.2 slots? sorry! want expandable ram? out of luck! i don’t love it, but i grudgingly respect the gusto

In his 1963 book *Misreadings*, Umberto Eco presented a structuralist schematic for generating Jean-Luc Godard films. I've implemented it on @glitchdotcom: https://godard-film-generator.glitch.me/

reacquainting myself with the sound of Link screaming as he falls into sundry voids

excuse me but what the fuck

scanning the imdb page of alan ruck's recent work yesterday i was devastated to discover a genre of intentionally?? bad trek movies. i can't tell if this is like karaoke or if it's earnest and just light on craft, but they're really disheartening.

Gil Strang is retiring, and his final lecture is on Monday:

https://grinfeld.org/strang/

His 18.06 videos are one of the Internet's great treasures. Strongest possible recommend.

@durumcrustulum is there some stable "just use libsodium for all your password hashing needs" website or is there some better advice these days. why is everything a mix of "just use argon2," "also, avoid scrypt!!," "scrypt is probably fine," "just anything but pbkdf2," and so forth, it's a real mixed bag imo given that auth is treated like a 'solved problem' (maybe because everyone delegates auth to other services like authio etc?) but maybe it's just solved since everyone uses nacl but all the docs haven't caught up?

when the edible hits (previously https://tweets.generic.cx/1545532012978507776/ )