The source code is much more interesting than some Twitter bro's hot take.
"We took a wrong turn w/ software."
... apparently.
Save your energy and check out the repo instead.
I don't totally blame the guy though. If you want to play the stupid Twitter game, you have to add a trite but provocative hot take to every post you make, lest your writings languish in obscurity. The only way to win is not to play, truly.
Takes me back .. once upon a time I was an admin on old OG Freenode + #C + #lisp and recall when that was floated to take potshots at and use as a beta test crowd.
The first non reddit team submissions were some very dry comp sci papers and tech manuals .. the cats came not long after.
He is not a Twitter bro though. He has developed software extensively. He is a PL researcher, a professor at BrownU, now working in computing education.
No doubt in real life he's a smart guy. I don't dispute that. It proves my point even more - when on Twitter, even the smartest people get reduced to playing the dumb hot take games.
Thanks for the link. Among other things it made be feel old, as in I have a post on my blog from back then writing about the Lisp to Python switch that Reddit was carrying out and it’s interesting to see computer programmers that look like they’re in their early 30s or such and not knowing about it at all.
Those were more interesting and especially more vibrant times when it came to the web. Granted, the money was not as abundant as it is now.
