Ben Cuan
@bencuan
trying to understand the internet
Ben Cuan
bencuan.me
Programming is magic:
You speak in an arcane tongue, incomprehensible to outsiders.
You manipulate forces infinitely greater than you.
A daemon comes along and ruins everything.
You speak in an arcane tongue, incomprehensible to outsiders.
You manipulate forces infinitely greater than you.
A daemon comes along and ruins everything.
an American daydream
the scenic route
Beyond that the wider internet just strikes me as a sad place. There is no energy there. The cracks in the wall are beginning to show.
The End of the Extremely Online Era
stumbles across a pile of ash, a couple of tree stumps, and half-eaten packet of marshmallows (carefully sealed)
something awesome happened here
something awesome happened here
the digital spaces we want
my “writing process” is that I spend weeks/months collecting fragments, links, and quotes in a giant apple note until one day I decide to barf it all out in a single 16-hour writing frenzy
> I can float around the rest of the week—do coffee chats and see my friends and sit around reading in the park—but every... See more
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