Mary Rose Cook’s Newsletter

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 contai…

Apr 13

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 med…

Apr 9

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 Fra…

Jan 31

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 J…

Nov 24, 2020

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 t…

Sep 25, 2020

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…

Aug 9, 2020

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