week 29 of 2024

Maybe it goes the other way. We use these silly new computer programs to automate reading our documentation for us, checking the grammar and spelling and readability of our emails and our posts. And we make corrections that make it easier for the computer program to understand what we mean. Not making them better for people, but for the computer program. Gradually people learn to write that way, people learn to read that way (because everything is written that way) and we meet in the middle. Machines indistinguishable from humans not because we made them like us, but because we made us like them.

The week was fine, i did some work. Ran into a few hard problems with the code i’m working on in my precious spare time. i’ve paused it to build out some of the libraries i’ll need to build it well. There’s something where Signals and CRDTs allow you to have data that is reactive and consistent across space and time. I’m not quite at the bottom of it yet.

Looked at pictures, things got better. Had to decide if I’m staying here another year, i am. Rent went up but i think it’s still the best deal in London. I’ve been watching a lot of talks about programming. Streams too. And reading tc39 proposals. And specs and whitepapers. Like a teenager.

Hedgehog lost her phone in a hole, i went out in the rain. I’m about to write a generic JavaScript patch library that i hope will work out well.

I keep thinking things are getting better, but maybe i’m wrong.

i hope your week is good and the days are long.