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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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