Substrate

There comes a time in the life of every organism when it begins to decline. Its best days are behind it. Ominous signs of decay abound. The end can be envisioned — it’s no longer an abstract enti

“FaceTime is still broken but that's ok because @bb_fresh and I just dropped a video on what to do in a situation like this https://t.co/49iWjsPce9”

~ y'all i have a new project ~▱▱▱▱ MUSHY ▱▱▱▱is a free asset pack of neural network generated isometric tiles, for use in your projects. its a real horrorshow!! https://t.co/nEYh7ZISku pic.twitter.com/T1TA4OpK3Q— everest (@everestpipkin) January 30, 2019

“I also sketched an app called Broadway in 2009, which became the first iOS app we ever wrote at @lickability, when it was just me and @bcapps as high-schoolers. https://t.co/xBHwasiXjz”

“I have decided to make an ongoing thread of random things I like that I would recommend to other people”

“@wgalyean What non-public channels are most important to you?”

“Want to see a really bad bug? You can FaceTime any iOS device running 12.1 and listen in remotely—WITHOUT THE OTHER PERSON ANSWERING THE CALL. (via @bzamayo) https://t.co/Zd4DSeM1WV”

“excited about rural electric meters”

“Free map functions express the nesting nicely: map: ((A) -> B) -> (Signal) -> Signal map: ((A) -> B) -> ([A]) -> [B] Then the nested map is function composition: (map < map): ((A) -> B) -> (Signal

Staying safe on the internet.

Even though Swift only supports unary and binary operators for operator overloading, it's possible to implement our *own* ternary operators by declaring two separate operators that work together and using a *curried function* for one of the operators.

This schedule went viral on Twitter with the caption: “Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing routine is the ideal writing routine.” It’s a lovely, lovely thing, but it should be pointed out that it was an “ideal” routine for her, too, as she says in the 1988 interview it’s excerpted from. (Left out: “I go to

We sleep, we watch Netflix, we smoke, we have sex, we laugh at cat memes and lie tangled in the sheets on a Saturday morning. On other days, we get out of bed, we comb our hair, we make witty comments in work meetings, we form mental models and test them out, we try to figure out what the world is all about, and - if we’re lucky - leave a legacy. This is what it means to be both animal and God: that particular human ability to hold both lowbrow and highbrow in a single state and, depending on the moment, dissemble and disavow knowledge of either one. Each person is part of the senseless miracle that put us not-animals-not-Gods into the universe.

Emoji hearts are hard to read but there’s one that beats them all.

At your next celebration, give the gift of satisfying feelings, like that of a perfect retort made at the exact right time, instead of months later, when you’re trying to fall asleep.

pic.twitter.com/SnM1eu5kfP— everest (@everestpipkin) January 22, 2019

“1. Take a snapshot of the Nintendo RAM every frame (60fps). 2. Plot each address in memory as a sparkline.”

random pic.twitter.com/OLXnV5dbkD— ☁️ ☁️ 🔴✨ (@pifafu) January 21, 2019

I begin to feel that I can trust mathematics as a guiding beacon for how programming can be done well. This is why I feel strongly that simple mathematical constructs, like pure functions, monoids, etc., form a strong foundation of abstraction as opposed to the overly complicated, and often ad-hoc, design patterns we see in software engineering. ​ I spend a lot of my time trying to find new and creative ways to bring seemingly complex functional programming ideas down to earth and make them approachable to a wider audience. ​ but it does give us an opportunity to explore a strange and surprising result in computation and mathematics. It can help show that the connection between the two topics is perhaps deeper than we may first think.

Saying goodbye to Austin, Texas and moving to the Big Apple for the next chapter!

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I started thinking about this meme’s six-year journey from a dark corner of young Twitter to the florescent lighting of high-school-friend Facebook. I’ll argue are different ways of looking at the same thing: One is that a single Twitter user released this sentiment into the collective unconscious, or activated an existing sentiment, and that by going viral that sentiment has become thoroughly and invisibly embedded in the fabric of culture to such a degree that it now consistently reappears throughout the world. The other explanation is that creative originality, the kind we still police with terms like “plagiarism,” is even more of a myth than we realize, and we hadn’t faced that because we never had the tools to observe how much we repeat one another.