The Clojure documentary premieres live later today!
Thanks to the folks who participated, Nu for sponsoring, and all those who helped in the development of Clojure and its community.
I'll be in the chat, and I hope to see you there!
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“Software's like Egyptian pyramids: millions of bricks, no structural integrity, done by brute force and 1000s of slaves.”
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Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...
Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.
I really feel like once you're aware of "CEO said a thing" as a model of "journalism" you can't unsee it. It is fucking everywhere.
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I see, I wonder if adding this to Claude.md would solve that.
Isn’t that what Claude code plan mode is for? Or are you talking about something else?
Scott Kim’s Viewpoint
“In language, in religion, in art, in science, man can do no more than to build up his own universe—a symbolic universe that enables him to understand and interpret, to articulate and organize, to synthesize and universalize his human experience.”
— Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man
Claude Code is more fun than Netflix. Bravo.
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement. With Cubase or Photoshop, anybody can actually do anything, and you can make stuff that sounds very much like stuff you’d hear on the radio, or looks very much like anything you see in magazines. So the question becomes not whether you can do it or not, because any drudge can do it if they’re prepared to sit in front of the computer for a few days, the question then is, "Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do? " --Brian Eno
Also, this Brian Eno quote has been really stuck in my head for weeks:
"The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement.
... the question then is, "Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?""
This is very popular, yet WILDLY poor advice: “Be constructive, don’t complain about problems if you don’t have a solution”
If you hear someone say this, please consider slapping them with a large trout.
Being aware of problems is *incredibly valuable*, whether you have solutions or not!
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Yes, very good talk by Benjamin!
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Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Miller should be the target of Dem pressure.
Yes, defund ICE, impeach Noem, sure.
But if you want maximum change on the admin's behavior, focus on getting Miller out of day-to-day decisions. Drive a wedge by making him embarassing.
Trump loves to blame someone else: make Miller the scapegoat.
If your goal is to produce some particular end product—a website, an app, an open-source project on GitHub—the sooner you can make it look like that end product, the better.
With AI, it's never been easier. Get an idea. Sketch with AI. Make a demo! 🧐💡🛠
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I had very good experiences rapidly prototyping UIs with Claude. For production code I still have to rewrite/refactor it because it has a tendency not to refactor when iterating on the design and it often ends up with a convoluted mess.
I meant explaining the rationale of your high-level design decisions so the agent does not break your architecture when designing new stuff.
The same goes for documenting your architecture.
Claude code is amazing for rapid prototyping!
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New Alan Kay talk — 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces
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People mistakenly think prototypes are for discovering the right answer. They are most effective when used to find the right question.
A silver lining to coding with AI agents may be that we will finally accept the idea of programs as derivable artifacts.
It probably requires some unpacking. A reason to read this book :)
TIL "netflix and chill" used to be "come up and see my etchings"
