Totto-chan in a Universe of One
In a dimly lit black box theatre in Pune, Parna Pethe walked onto an empty stage — and for the next ninety minutes, built a world out of air.
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Bullet Train Explosion - Movie Review
Just finished watching Bullet Train Explosion and wanted to share that this was a movie that I enjoyed from the first frame to the last because it really spoke to the engineer in me. The opening shot of the movie is in a Shinkansen rolling stock yard and the first person you see in an engineer in a hard hat. This is the crew of the train that will be taking you on an exhilrating journey through…
White Lotus Season 3 - Review and Analysis
WARNING: SPOLIERS *
Mo
Just got done watching Mo and I really wish there was more such stories on TV. Mo is the story of a Palestenian refugee in USA who has been waiting for his asylum case to be heard for 22 years. The family fled from Kuwait during the Gulf War and the father died a few years after they arrived in the US and now it’s Mo, his autistic brother Sameer, their mother Yusra and sister Nadia who is married.
Your Tools Matter
Your tools matter. The tools you use say a lot about you as a developer. Specifically they tell me a lot about how much you have been exposed to which programming culture.
Falling completely in love with emacs again!
Some weeks ago, I reluctantly bought a Cursor subscription. Reluctantly because it was quite obvious that emacs was dead and was nowhere in the AI coding game. So Cursor it was and what an apt name it has - each time I used it, I cursed. It came preloaded with all kinds of linters that would make absurd changes to my files. Removing these involved hours of frutstration and I had to call a friend…
Getting Rich off Hype Cycles
A lot of you are seeing a hype cycle play out in real time for the first time. I say in real time because the speed of this one is astonishing. The last hype cycle we had was mobile and it took ages. Hardware needed to roll out across the globe and it came in two waves - pre iPhone and post. Many of y’all were around at the time. If you missed the bus that time don’t worry. A lot of people never…
Information Driven Architectures
Below are some initial thoughts on having a single Information API not just for applications, but for the entire host organisation. Throughout the below, I use the word “information” distinctly from “data”, with information being the transformation of data into something useful (for some value of useful).
Monocultures
This is a post about programming, but I am going to draw on industrial agriculture and its resultant monoculture to use as an analogy for software development, so bear with me as I take some time to lay down a common context.
Bitcoin FUD
TLDR - Cryptocurrencies are the future of currency, not of money.