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Convergence in Software
The problem isn’t complexity. It’s how we branch and never thought how to come back together.
Self Referential
Love, like free will, exists despite itself, insisting upon its own reality and spawning endless justifications to make sense of its presence.
State of React State Management is Absurd!
Why would anyone want a distributed system solution a single threaded app?????
We Must Talk About: Locality
...as the right word unlocks a whole new dimension for our thoughts.
OOP Isn't Obsessed Enough About Time Control
Dog is an animal. Car is a vehicle. Why doesn't OOP ever talk about time control?
In Defense of Weird Names
Names are weird until you understand what they stand for and realize that sometimes someone need to stand for them.
Appreciating 2023: Systems, Types, and Philosophy
Today's work is particularly fun that it inspired me to write this appreciation piece for the past 2023-2024.
Control, In Itself, For You
When you run a program in your computer, a small slice of space and time in your device is under the programmer's control.