A name for Nothing: reading Tzara
A reading of Tzara’s manifesto leads to a joke about names, Nothing and language games.
Lynn Cole / Writing
Writing
Essays, thoughts, and technical notes.
Old code, fear of change, and the poetry of rebuilding
Old ASP code carries traces of fear, habit and human choices. Rebuilding it starts with cataloging the workflow rather than copying its implementation.
What would an AI VTuber look like?
What would Max Headroom look like as an AI VTuber today? I imagine CADIE’s vulnerability, strange contextual leaps and a cast of mismatched synthetic personalities.
Learning COBOL for fun
I learned COBOL for fun a few years ago, seeing it through the eyes of a modern programmer.
When learning a new language stops being difficult
Go is the thirty-second language I have picked up. Learning gets faster, and I find myself missing the struggle that used to come with it.
Feedback systems should serve a community
Feedback systems should help communities spot problems and understand reliability, without making a marketplace needlessly hostile.