Archive - Mary Rose Cook’s Newsletter

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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.

Aug 22, 2021 •

April 2021

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…

Apr 13, 2021 •

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…

Apr 9, 2021 •

January 2021

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…

Jan 31, 2021 •

November 2020

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…

Nov 24, 2020 •

September 2020

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…

Sep 25, 2020 •

August 2020

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…

Aug 9, 2020 •

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