We’ve created systems so intricate and interconnected that human reasoning fails, then declared the tools that help us navigate this complexity to be essential.

It is your job to be an activist against complex systems - to advocate for simplicity.

Both React “components” and Docker “containers” feel like complex overreactions to isolation in state management.

How to "realize" the state of a computer?

A computer is a state machine. Basically do something, and find the next state to go to. What really goes on underneath is certainly not realized.

we don't deserve serverless when we can't even manage servers

today i ran into a glitch where the cursor style in my app i was making wouldn't update because i accidentally left my mac on screen recording mode for 30 minutes straight and i think it broke something in the mac internals.

on repeated testing i could not replicate this

programming is about running into dumbass edge cases