The Machine Kept the Code
For seventy years the source file was the one document humans and machines both read. It split in two. The machine kept the code, we kept the prose — and slop moved with us.
For seventy years the source file was the one document humans and machines both read. It split in two. The machine kept the code, we kept the prose — and slop moved with us.
A state that lives on taxing work, in a world running out of work. Henry George saw the fix in 1879 — tax rent, not labour. Ours wears a hoodie.
I had been picturing these for months. I had also been hoarding the good paper. Today I stopped doing both.
I sat down to plot on good paper. Four hours later, plotta-studio was on GitHub instead.
In 2011, I built a genetic algorithm that reconstructed portraits from 250 transparent polygons. Fifteen years later, the same optimization loop runs the AI industry — and the question of who defines "fit" has never been more urgent.
The visual programming paradigm that started with patch cables in 1964 found its killer app in AI orchestration. From patch cables to prompts – visual programming found its ultimate use case.
Pair-programming with an AI from bed to finally put my dusty AxiDraw to use.
How Scotty works under the hood, its architecture, built-in safeguards, and the boundaries it deliberately respects.
Why every development team needs better preview apps, and how Scotty makes Docker Compose apps instantly shareable.