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Nice post on software engineering. "Cognitive load is what matters" https://t.co/eMgxu0YgWw Probably the most true, least practiced viewpoint. https://t.co/RY2rrtk2lJ

people underestimate how much the difficulty of making UIs is a bottleneck for how sophisticated our tools are. anybody who has been in / adjacent to the tools for thought space knows this firsthand because we've all been nerd sniped into building our own text editors at some point, but it's just the tip of the... See more

In his magnificent history of the origins of modern computing, Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson notes that some of the earliest thinkers about digital computing realized that the spread of “codes”—that is, programs—from computer to computer is akin to the spread of viruses, and perhaps of more complex living organisms, that take over a host and put

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