Substrate

Apple has released their take on RxSwift. In order to understand it, one must start from the beginning.

These projects are all very different, but the dynamic is the same. Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.

The next time you adjust a setting, think twice. Sometimes it’s better to change yourself to appreciate the defaults than to change the defaults to suit you.

Fast forward to 2019. My lunch routine is a rotating cast of fast casual concepts, with lost vowel names ​ When I do go to a nearby deli, it’s impossible to ignore just how stark the socioeconomic contrast is to the Sweetgreen line. While the latter appears filled with people who stepped away from their WeWork desks, the former feels packed with the contractors underpaid to maintain that same WeWork. ​ We're no longer constrained to the Banana Republic-Gap-Old Navy trichotomy. Every facet of our daily consumer lives can now be hyper-segmented. ​ It's yet another area where technological know-how amplifies existing behaviors and practices. We've always signaled status with things like the little horse on your shirt or the expensive watch on your wrist (can you tell I worked in finance?) or the bag you carry or the shoes you wear. Those were social signaling table stakes. But now it's our lunch too. ​ Just next time you get lunch, take a good look around you. We are losing the spaces we share across socioeconomic strata. Slowly, but surely, we are building the means for an everyday urbanite to exist solely in their physical and digital class lanes. It used to be the rich, and then everyone else. Now in every realm of daily consumer life, we are able to efficiently separate ourselves into a publicly visible delineation of who belongs where. ​ But like in so many other areas of consumer life, we're slowly learning that mutually beneficial success at the micro-level just might have adverse effects in the macro.

That’s why my short stuff appears here (and on my microblog) and then gets copied to Twitter. It belongs on the open web first. Twitter is just another form of syndication. It’s not the home of my writing.

Get started with Apple’s Combine with your existing RxSwift knowledge

I have to confess that Twitter has yielded some good relationships and opportunities over the past few years. And there’s a part of me that wants to keep that portal open. It’s just that on most days, I’m not sure it’s worth it. ​ going indie, as it were, works better (better, I grant, depends on your purposes) when you’ve already got a large audience that is going to follow you where ever you go ​ divided ​ What I do know is that the newsletter is increasingly where I want to write and what I want to keep developing

What’s left, then, is “something I am” along with the increasingly important object that is also increasingly unusable by anyone but me, and therefore more a part of me than ever. No wonder it’s so hard to put it down.

95% of having a significant other is pointing at every dog you see and saying “thats a dog” “look at that dog” and responding with “thats a dog”

AirPods foster a different approach to detachment: Rather than mute the surrounding world altogether, they visually signal the wearer’s choice to perpetually relegate the immediate environment to the background. ​ AirPods, then, express a more complete embrace of our simultaneous existence in physical and digital space, taking for granted that we’re frequently splitting our mental energy between the two. ​ AirPods have externalities — penalizing non-wearers while confining the value they generate to their individual users. ​ Once everyone has earbuds that are always in, physical proximity will no longer confer a social expectation of shared experience. ​ subordinate our in-person sociality to the privatized infrastructure of networked communication ​ Now, the kind of space that suffices instead is a pleasant backdrop for solitary device usage, a relatively blank slate that doesn’t compete with the phone’s foreground — conditions that places like Sweetgreen and Equinox supply. ​ A dominant aural information platform could have a similar effect, fostering a world where we might as well leave our headphones on because there’s nothing around us worth hearing.

“I began to wonder… how might I organize my to do list so that it makes me feel the way I do when I look at my pantry? How might it become a place that gives me a sense possibility, where I want to create—to work. I’ve been playing with this idea for a couple months and have come to some preliminary conclusions.”

As a “technology person” (ugh), people ask my why I wear a mechanical watch when I already have the time on my phone? I love mechanical watches for a number of reasons – the art, …

The important parts of the job are done with our minds. It’s how we think about things, and what things we think up, and how we arrange these things. ​ that is to say, you will very likely make you a better programmer, and I will be very glad indeed if I have helped in some small way. ​ Before that, I spent eighteen months implementing sync, and so I know a thing or two about making mistakes. ​ If it’s new to you, there’s nothing wrong with that, either—it just means it’s your lucky day, and for that matter, mine too. So please don’t take my word on anything: if there’s anything in here that strikes you as interesting or dull or likely or implausible, try it out for yourself. See where it takes you. More than anything else, I would love to see you make things. ​ In truth, it isn’t easy selecting a name, but that’s not the hard part by half. The hard part is selecting something which is deserving of a name: abstracting. ​ With -setUpNavigationItem, defining the what is a contradiction in terms: it’s not a noun, not a concept. It has no value (by which I mean that it declares its return type to be void, i.e. no type, no value). It was abstracted, but in a sense it is not an abstraction, but merely an extraction of specific instructions. ​ In this sense, too, -setChild: and -setUpNavigationItem are not abstractions, despite having been abstracted: they have no meaning, only instructions. They are not nouns. They are not concepts. ​ but I promise the segue makes sense if you’re me. ​ instead the Grand Declarator, telling each abstraction what it is. Again: how vs. what. ​ At the same time, abstracting imperatively, abstracting-without-abstractions, denies you the ability to deal with these extra concepts behind the veil of local complexity; that is, any code using an imperative abstraction necessarily incurs the complexity of any changes it performs in a total sense (as with any other abstraction), but also incurs it locally—because any other changes to the same state need to be carefully sequenced. The details leak from callee to caller, again and again, and can never be contained. ​ part of what I think about when I think of “declarative programming” is the notion that you are constructing a system of objects at runtime out of which the desired behaviour falls naturally: a necessary consequence of the structure. ​ Composition is abstraction’s dual; where abstraction is breaking a problem into simpler components, composition is reassembling those into the solution. Constructing an abstraction is generally itself composition of other abstractions; any time you use an abstraction, you are composing. ​ It is therefore in our best interests to ensure that the abstractions we build are as simple as possible: simple abstractions are more flexible, meaning more easily composed together, because they do not introduce factors not necessary to their operation. ​ And it is clearly the direction that the market and the industry is heading in: there is a lot of ongoing, exciting research being done in declarative languages and systems and how to survive in an imperative world. ​ It’s necessarily different, of course; if control flow is abstracted, it becomes increasingly difficult for your the API’s client to simply use lldb to debug it. ​ To abstract is to identify an idea, a concept, as a unique thing which can be reasoned and acted upon in isolation. It is to give it a name; to define that name with that concept. This is equally true in language and in code. ​ or of the bittersweet experience of a trusted colleague and friend leaving to work on something important to them ​ If abstraction is vocabulary, then composition is grammar

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It reads: "As a political statement on transit and the concept of rest, millions of New Yorkers collaborated over a period of decades to meticulously create these unique patterns using only their posteriors." ​ they've taken it upon themselves to try to curate our mass transit experience as if it were a living museum.

you generally felt a sense of presence with your contacts. You at least knew what to expect, generally, when you messaged somebody. ​ The expectation is the conversation never really ends, but in fact, it never really starts, either.

When working with a monad, you work in its Kleisli category which is another example of a CCC. The above discussion relating function evaluation to function composition, would then relate Kleisli evaluation (=) to Kleisli composition (=). Woah, is `bind` just monadic function evaluation?

Hi, my name is Eitan. I’m a student of mathematics. Welcome to my personal blog. I intend to post mathematical exposition, but since this is a personal blog I will also post political thought…

this is the appeal of Zoom, to me, almost as an anti-silicon valley company: they took a bad product and just made it good.

never apologize for your terrible taste. the ability to derive enjoyment from something no one else can stand is a form of comparative advantage this is especially true in creative fields, where everything is built from the bones of everything else and you make "novel" stuff by importing fresh new bones in conclusion: you will make better things if you go grave robbing in really weird and shitty cemeteries that no one else likes

New York is one of the best cities when things are going well in your life because everyone else has so much energy that you can thrive off them But when things aren’t going well, that same energy can make it feel like everyone has their shit together and you don’t Honestly it sort of feels like some sort of social darwinian experiment where only highly resilient people with fantastic stress management can survive for extended periods of time

What should exist and doesn’t

“Yancey Strickler, a co-founder of Kickstarter, on the internet retreating to safe spaces – well, safer spaces: Podcasts are another example. There, meaning isn’t just expressed through language, but also through intonation and interaction. Podcasts are where a bad joke can still be followed by a self-aware and self-deprecating save. It’s a more forgiving space for communication than the internet at large. Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups, Snapchat, WeChat, and on and on. This is where Facebook is pivoting with Groups (and trying to redefine what the word “privacy” means in the process). Obviously, the various spaces mentioned above are wildly different, but it is interesting to try to bucket them all together into this trend. And it is something that resonates with me about newsletters…”