Tanuj

Away with the tools for developers! Let’s bring back the weirdness and experimentation and the joy of building a website again! Give us software to peel back all the layers of HTML and CSS and customize them, remix them, riff on code that we barely understand.

Understandability is a form of beauty, virtual does not mean immaterial and doing things with less is not a return to the past.

I am the programming equivalent of a home cook.

People don’t read enough, and I think as a society we’re under-investing in reading. People feel compelled to finish books they’ve started – that’s just a tax on your reading. Why would you do that to yourself? Imagine a world where any restaurant you tried you had to keep on going there for days or weeks, you’d hardly ever go out to eat.

My first recommendation would be fiction. Reading fiction is important to understand the cross-sectional variation in humanity, to understand how difficult generalizations can be, to just get a sense of how different social pieces fit together, and to get a sense of different historical eras – and plus, reading fiction is often just plain flat-out... See more

And then there’s this 89-year-old grandmother, who got dressed nicely and put her paintings up for display at an art showing, and guess what? No one fucking came. Then she packed up her paintings and drove home, feeling “foolish.” You know what that is? It’s cluey as shit. Especially her choice of the word foolish in particular. I really don’t need... See more