A friend recently re-introduced me to this blog series and I wanted to share. The deep satire and direct connection of technology and witchcraft is hilarious to me. It goes on with Hexing the...
A friend recently re-introduced me to this blog series and I wanted to share. The deep satire and direct connection of technology and witchcraft is hilarious to me. It goes on with Hexing the technical interview and others.
Somebody in the comments wrote the William Gibson version:
Somebody in the comments wrote the William Gibson version:
It was hot, the night I burned the Seeker. Moths batted themselves to death against the humming neon signs just outside the single window in the cramped room. There were ancient electronics piled to the ceiling in here, hot new chipsets from Taiwan still unwrapped distributed unevenly amongst them. The Seeker put his hands on his hips, brushing aside the corners of his Sukajan jacket bomber jacket replica. "I heard you and Bobby were hotshots, once. Real.. artÃstes", he said, the last word paired with a smug grin. "Heard you could do things." "Things like what?" It's been 20 seconds and you've already wasted too many cycles with this guy. "Things like making lists, just, fold up inside themselves. Come out the other way around. Crazy things." You grit your teeth. The dex has left your system and you're starting to feel a massive drug deficiency coming on. "Crazy things cost money", you manage. The lists already unfurling in your head, you start typing as quickly as you can to hide the microtremors.
Kyle does so much great work. As someone who's been working with various distributed database systems at work, the Jepsen tests are both invaluable research and also satisfying takedowns of...
Kyle does so much great work. As someone who's been working with various distributed database systems at work, the Jepsen tests are both invaluable research and also satisfying takedowns of overly-bold claims about DB reliability. Then for something completely different, his article A Satisfactory Way of Building was a perfect distillation of a lot of my thought process for playing, uh, Satisfactory.
Plus, I really appreciate his willingness to publicly stick with a "weird" part of his lifestyle (leather) in a time when it'd be all too tempting to minimize any possible target on yourself.
I don't know functional programming or clojure, so I think some of the humor is lost on me, but this is really great. The intersection of witchcraft and technology reminds me of Charlie Jane...
I don't know functional programming or clojure, so I think some of the humor is lost on me, but this is really great.
The intersection of witchcraft and technology reminds me of Charlie Jane Sanders' novel All The Birds in the Sky
This particular evening, a giant yellow moon crested over a clear warm sky, so every fixture, the owls included, was floodlit like a carnival on its last night in town, and moon-drunk roars came from every corner. A perfect night to go out and make some dirty magic.
A friend recently re-introduced me to this blog series and I wanted to share. The deep satire and direct connection of technology and witchcraft is hilarious to me. It goes on with Hexing the technical interview and others.
Somebody in the comments wrote the William Gibson version:
I think you mean "William Gibson left a comment under the blog post."
Kyle does so much great work. As someone who's been working with various distributed database systems at work, the Jepsen tests are both invaluable research and also satisfying takedowns of overly-bold claims about DB reliability. Then for something completely different, his article A Satisfactory Way of Building was a perfect distillation of a lot of my thought process for playing, uh, Satisfactory.
Plus, I really appreciate his willingness to publicly stick with a "weird" part of his lifestyle (leather) in a time when it'd be all too tempting to minimize any possible target on yourself.
Fantastic, thank you for sharing!
I don't know functional programming or clojure, so I think some of the humor is lost on me, but this is really great.
The intersection of witchcraft and technology reminds me of Charlie Jane Sanders' novel All The Birds in the Sky
The code examples are nearly entirely Greek to me too, but it all still lands, since that's basically the point!