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| Dispatch #6 (August 2023) | 2023-08-05T12:00:00-04:00 | false |
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Some thoughts here...
- Lake
- Visit from my parents
- Camping @ Carolina Hemlocks Recreation Area
- Go
- Did Exercisms
- Fantasy draft TUI app in Go
- Did a bike ride
- Am I running a half-marathon this fall?
- YES -- Bull City Race Fest
This month:
- Adventure:
- Project: Fantasy draft TUI app
- Skill:
Reading:
- Fiction: Title, Author
- Non-fiction: The Creative Programmer, Wouter Groeneveld
Links:
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.