Capturing subexpressions: at once stage we had an experimental product that (in block mode only, not streaming) could accurately model libpcre’s capturing semantics. This worked by scanning the data backwards with a backwards version of the pattern, making a trace of the states visited, and tracing forwards through the backward state trace in order to […]
We’re Reading Fahrenheit 451 Wrong ☞ L.M. Sacasas
Attention is a resource, and, like all precious resources, it must be cultivated with care and defended. It is, after all, that by which we get our grip on the world and how we remain open to world. — Read on thefrailestthing.com/2018/06/15/were-reading-fahrenheit-451-wrong/
The old fashioned way: we earn it
I love this twitter thread from Alexandra Erin, whom often writes things I like reading. One quote from it: And you know, this is just one of the many things that would be simpler to solve if we had universal cash benefits/universal basic income. Easiest way to make sure everybody we need to run a […]
On having a fuzzy-feeling tongue
I burnt my tongue Monday morning on some homemade chicken broth. This is, both, annoying and pretty great. It is annoying because now I have a tongue that feels “fuzzy” somehow. It is pretty great because I have been reminded, over and over again, all morning long, that my wife made me some home made […]
Book haul
When your fav bartender shares her books with you.
Why Richard Powers and Lewis Thomas Are Must-Reads
When did you realize you were a machine? A fancy machine, for sure. But one whose parts and operations can be described like the components… — Read on nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/we-are-all-bewildered-machines
My self-awareness is a trick of the shape of the universe I occupy.
So, I am just trying to construct a narrative here based on what I have access to; bear with me. The whole of the universe (the World), “past”, “present”, and “future”, always exist so long as the universe exists. I am not attempting, here, to prove that, but rather present it as a given. To […]
The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring | Big Medium
https://bigmedium.com/ideas/boring-design-systems.html “When the design system is boring, it frees designers and developers to do the new stuff, to solve new problems. The design system carries the burden of the boring, so that designers and developers don’t have to. Instead of designing a card pattern for the 15th time, it’s already done. Product teams can instead […]
Apple Acquires Workflow
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/22/apple-has-acquired-workflow-a-powerful-automation-tool-for-ipad-and-iphone/
Scary test.
This is a scary test.
frum on the recently passed healthcare reform bill
No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the “doughnut hole” and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes […]