I cleaned up my description of my asemic writing generator from NaNoGenMo 2017 slightly: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/post-mortem-of-a-fiction-generator-asemic-writing-with-some-properties-of-natural-languages-2b008fbf8563
Fiction generator post-mortem: comic book generation https://medium.com/@enkiv2/fiction-generator-post-mortem-comic-book-generation-9df847dd4ada
Double Loop Learning: Download New Skills and Information into Your Brain https://fs.blog/2018/06/double-loop-learning/
Nadia Eghbal | The independent researcher https://nadiaeghbal.com/independent-research
A Survey of Programming Language Package Systems http://neurocline.github.io/papers/survey-of-programming-language-packaging-systems.html
Idioms of Dynamic Languages http://willcrichton.net/notes/idioms-of-dynamic-languages/
How to read | Robert Heaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/
Remember the good old [hellenic] days, when political parties were sports teams and were also named after their jersey colors, and politicians were elected via lottery?
HyperRogue: the weirdest roguelike | Rock, Paper, Shotgun https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/28/hyperrogue-non-euclidean-roguelike/
Cognitive ease is the enemy: if something makes sense, that's an indication that you have done insufficient research or applied insufficient consideration, because nothing real makes sense.
"Does this mean I'm a prophet?"
"Nah," said God. "I just wanted someone to hear my view."
"But I am, well, was, an atheist?"
"Yeah. You hadn't already decided what I'm like. You listen well. Thank you. It was nice to talk."
"Any time."
"Thanks," God smiled. "I'll see you later."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Band name of the day: difficult conversations laboratory
PMJ, Pomplamoose, the Surfrajettes, and other cover bands keep demonstrating that shitty pop songs often at their core are competently constructed and become great if you change the arrangement & instrumentation.
Chris Espinosa, quoted in the final chapter of Fire in the Valley, says that when Jobs came back to Apple his screaming fits were 'for show'. What's worse: a manager with no emotional control or one that fakes it for emotional manipulation?
'It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy' is accurate, but Jobs failed to mention that any BUSINESS is a navy in this metaphor. A small navy is at a disadvantage. Naval officers who act like pirates are called war criminals.
while working on a friendly wrapper for a nearest-neighbors library today, I had the occasion to play around with the xkcd color corpus a bit and made these constrained color word poems https://gist.github.com/aparrish/f2dfc0a42f636d69dc22271c5e2f2be5
one of these days when i make charles fort themed shitposts people will recognize them