I’m going to be annoyed if the singularity happens right before I finish my PhD

If you have thoughts on extensions or plugin systems consider submitting to the malleable systems challenge problem on fearless extensibility: forum.malleable.systems/t/challenge-...#MalleableSystems#MalleableSoftware#Extensibility#Extensions

Challenge problem: Fearless extensibility

As I recently mentioned, I’d like us to try a challenge problem as a new community activity. Theme The theme for the first challenge problem is “fearless extensibility”. Why “fearless”…? Allowing ext...

How close are we to llm powered memexes? #LLM#memex

So many of my design preferences just come from rejecting tradeoffs in existing systems.

Somewhere in a board room, someone said “we’re not competing with Brother, we’re competing with FedEx/Kinkos”.

I’m in a phase where it feels like a hammer and everything I look at is a nail.

Is it just a phase when everything in programming looks like it should be modeled with effects?

Does anyone know of a feed of your follows that evens out for volume? So 1/100 followees who've posted recently only get 1% of space on the feed?

Is there a term for effective altruism minus the AI/futurism side?

The move from installed software to the cloud services simplified operations and I have a feeling a move towards local installs will simplify it again.