serious question: why aren't all PhD theses like this? academic research could be SO much more enjoyable and lovely

what if we built software that grows like an oak tree – unfurling gently towards where it's needed the most, taking time to figure out its place on earth, made to last for 100's of years.

CS folks, what would you recommend as reading for first time coders? Not book length, more article length. Asking for a class I'm teaching (which will mainly be practical, but I want to mix it up with some critical reading too)

found my work playlist for oh, I dunno, the rest of forever? stereogum.com/2187285/for-th…

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azealia banks is a birder now and her spark bird is yellow-crowned night heron

this is a fantastic example of retrofitting software. Instead of asking people to adopt new tech, give them tools to improve tech *they already use*. Viz libs should be accessible by default but they often aren't. Seems that tools like Olli can help fix that 👏

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