Up there with one of my favourite things I’ve ever made.
Episode 1 of Word For Word is here, and it’s with the inimitable poet Len Pennie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnyl...
And have to share two @edutopia.org posts in a row because this one from @mrrablin.bsky.social is SO cool! I have never seen this seating-arrangement strategy before.
www.edutopia.org/article/clas...
Come March, the buds on the tree's begin to burst, this #dataviz shows the timing of bud burst for different tree species across the UK. The black lines show the timing in the Spring for the years 2000 to 2025 and the blue line is the average day for that species.
> @covie93.bsky.social
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll get my LLM to use regular expressions.” Now they have three problems.
There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals".
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.
Your #BanjoAunti is here with a special guest: Ed Helms! While filming “Ode to Mary Jo” Ed and I got to have some banjo time behind the scenes. Today we’re demonstrating the difference between clawhammer and Scruggs-style banjo.
What if functional programming could solve your toughest Domain-Driven Design challenges?
In the Domain Modeling Made Functional Workshop, @scottwlaschin.bsky.social shows how combining DDD with FP creates systems that are evolvable and business-aligned.
www.avanscoperta.it/en/training/...
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
The whole internet is cheering for Milkshake Duck, the formerly canceled duck who went on a successful redemption tour! *five seconds later* Are you fucking serious.
Screenshot below of why I love /r/AskHistorians. Proper ruthless mods!
Watch an extra funky and extra heavy version of Rock On performed by David Essex with a live band on the Midnight Special in 1975 here
📺▶️ youtu.be/BT6RdovM1OI?...
Spot art. Photo of presenter(s) text reads: .NET Conf 2025 Smatterings of F#
A little F# goes a long way.
The .NET Conf session “Smatterings of F#” is a joyful tour of pattern matching, pipelines, and the kind of expressive code that makes you rethink your next refactor.
If you’ve been F#‑curious, this replay is a treat.
👉 Watch the session: buff.ly/y4zajBa
SOAS's food studies centre (which runs the anthropology of food masters I fantasise about) publish videos of their incredibly interesting seminars.
Live cheese regulations! War economics and hunger! More incredibly specific nerdy food talks!
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
Like many others, I’m missing @tinstargames.bsky.social this morning. While I can’t claim to have known Steve that well, we’ve been moving in the same online circles for, god, I have no idea how long. Gaming Outpost? Usenet?
He had a genius for wickedly clever little games. I especially love this:
SCIF stands for Six Curtains Is Fine!
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
Yes, weaving can be a bit addictive :) But playing around with drafts on weaving software is even more addictive!
22.00 FILM: SNAKE ON A PLANE Samuel L Jackson stars as a man on a 9-hour flight with nothing more than the simple game on his Nokia 3310 to keep him occupied.
And of course the "spec" still needs to be designed to be comprehensive and precise :)
I certainly would love to move to a much higher level "contract language" that generates code. but I'm not feeling like this is something new and radical. What am I missing?
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
Seriously, I'm not sure this view is different from the "programming is fundamentally a design activity" philosophy from 1992?
www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles...
The "code" is immutable but you still have to deal with mutating the "spec" with each feature/bug fix.
> "If a component can be regenerated from spec, understanding its implementation is optional. You need to understand the contract, the interface, the expected behavior. You don't need to understand how it achieves that behavior, because the "how" is transient."
Sounds like a compiler to me :)
