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another great one from @doriantaylor about hackathons (with the obligatory shout to OpenBSD; as a longtime user I was always fascinated to see what would come out of the hackaton this year, and was rarely disappointed) and how they have ... devolved. https://doriantaylor.com/the-hurrdurr-games
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dorian
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ha i should really update the form on that to use my newer form utils that you can just thumb the numerics up and down

you might also like https://doriantaylor.com/agile-as-trauma which is the single most popular thing i've ever written

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patterns that repeat, yessss

I was just asserting earlier this morning that the real promise of AI in daily use will be multi-agent systems, for the same reason that the UNIX design philosophy has been such a successful foundation to most of the world's technology landscape for like 50 years now: small composable tools that each do one thing well, tied together with a common interface. The LEGO design philosophy, if you will.

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dorian
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yeah and then fielding upgraded that idea in his rest dissertation to include types (https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm of course); my intertwingler (https://intertwingler.net/) is designed to implement that (and itself reduces to a harness that yokes together a universal component called a handler)

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

ics.uci.edu
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Scott Francis
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I feel like more people in ops and system architecture should be aware of/thinking about these kinds of ideas, and they don't get as much attention as is warranted IMO
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dorian
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indeed. a handler itself is just a microservice that responds to one or more urls via one or more request methods; there's a special kind of handler called a transform that just operates over the response payload, like a typed unix pipe
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Scott Francis
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love the call out to conceptual integrity (or as I'm more likely to say, “being on the same page”)
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Scott Francis
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big love also for the Goodhart's Law reference (although I'd love to see an XY Problem reference in here somewhere)
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Scott Francis
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yeah, I still love reading some of what he wrote but ... yeah. 🙁
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Scott Francis
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I was primarily EFnet #perl and rarely #unix, and then was on irc.perl.org for quite a while before jumping to Twitter (RIP) and now back here, which feels kind of like a more modern IRC??
#perl #unix
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dorian
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heh, i was on efnet #perl too then perl.org
#perl
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Scott Francis
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?! what was your handle? I was in there pretty much constantly from late 90s through early 00s, and then I ran the west coast node for irc.perl.org for a while
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dorian
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oh god i think i switched my irc nick to dorian in like 1998 or 99
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Scott Francis
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I've had the same nick pretty much everywhere since like '96-'97-ish
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dorian
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oh yeah i think i vaguely remember you; i'm also DORIAN on cpan

anyway pool time

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(pool time)++

and yeah I remember now 😀 LTNS

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It feels like a much worse USENET 😛

But the whole distributed design and the ability to follow hashtags make it especially interesting.

(Still on IRC, though. And USENET too.)

#IRC #USENET

#usenet #irc
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@njsg I've been idle on IRC and netnews so long I think I'd feel awkward coming back at this point =\
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