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Dispatch #6 (August 2023)	2023-08-03T16:19:00-04:00	false	dispatch

Some thoughts here...

• Go
  • Did Exercisms
  • Fantasy draft TUI app in Go
• Did a bike ride
• Am I running a half-marathon this fall?

This month:

• Adventure:
• Project:
• Skill:

Reading:

• Fiction: Title, Author
• Non-fiction: Title, Author

Links:

• Why I don't use Copilot

  I enjoy programming because it’s about reasoning, thinking, models, concepts, expression, communication, ethics, reading, learning, making, and process. It’s an art and a practice that is best done with other people.

  Increasingly I think it’s imperative for programming to be done more slowly, more deliberatively, and as part of more conversations with more people. The furious automation of everything is eating the world.

• Phase change

  What could I do with a universal function — a tool for turning just about any X into just about any Y with plain language instructions?

  I don’t pose that question with any sense of wide-eyed expectation; a reason­able answer might be, eh, nothing much. Not every­thing in the world depends on the trans­for­ma­tion of symbols. But I think that IS the question, and I think it takes some legit­i­mate work, some strenuous imagination, to push yourself to believe it really will be “just about any X” into “just about any Y”.

• The looming demise of the 10x developer: Why an era of enthusiast programmers is coming to an end

  That is to say, I’ve come to believe the era typified by the enthusiast programmer—autodidactic, obsessive, and antisocial—is drawing to a close.

• Notes on Conflict | Yes, Mike will do.

  Over time I shifted on the matter a little, but when I look back on it I realize I wasn’t really evolving my attitude toward conflict, I was just evolving my response to its existence, while still believing that being in a state of conflict is a problem. I just got better at keeping my blood pressure low and gritting through it. I think I was looking at conflict as a thing that you have to acknowledge exists, but that you need to get through as quickly as possible, because it’s a bad place to be.