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Build software faster, August 2021
My recent work has cohered a bit around the goal of building software faster. Here’s what I’ve done over the last month.
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A software maker doesn't need to define their software exhaustively
Exhaustive definition is not necessary Now, if the spec does define everything about how the program is going to behave, then, lo and behold, it…
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Good stuff, faster
There's something in the combination of the following: Programming is too slow. Programming is too hard. Many materials can produce art in the same…
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Walking
What's weird is that I had to rediscover going for walks. I discovered it in Shoreditch when I was 30, forgot about it, and rediscovered it in San…
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Programming
Welcome to Mary’s Newsletter. I’m a product engineer at @airtable. I've made programming environments, compilers, video games and a version of Git in…
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Tools for prototyping
Prototyping fascinates me. It's a trade off between three things. You want to maximize speed. You want to maximize the accuracy of the picture of the…
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Are there people who have produced great work using tools they invented that provide a much higher level of expressiveness?
Hi team! Sending this as my son screams in my ear, "Wawwwwwwwwwwwwwwk", which means "Let's go on a walk." I'm going go and do that now. In the meantime…
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