I make it that it's either very expensive, or sometimes very cheap (but never a middling cost for some reason), to find information that isn't really just commodity cosplaying as information.
(This thought is unrelated to any three-character acronyms in the world out there).
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 AM
I make it that it's either very expensive, or sometimes very cheap (but never a middling cost for some reason), to find information that isn't really just commodity cosplaying as information.
(This thought is unrelated to any three-character acronyms in the world out there).
Sorry, what I'm trying to say is generated code (without regular input from me on design) can tend to paint me into a corner. So I'd like some higher-level functions that can both guard against and infer when that's happening ahead of time. That'd be a nice language feature.
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Sorry, what I'm trying to say is generated code (without regular input from me on design) can tend to paint me into a corner. So I'd like some higher-level functions that can both guard against and infer when that's happening ahead of time. That'd be a nice language feature.
I'd ask what they saw on their way through their tunnel that got them to this point. What gives someone the belief to even try (no matter how surreal that "try" comes across) is the intrigue for me.
January 23, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I'd ask what they saw on their way through their tunnel that got them to this point. What gives someone the belief to even try (no matter how surreal that "try" comes across) is the intrigue for me.
I'd want a language compiler that refuses to build, when it infers the context width of any path within the build is too narrow. Helps to prevent flattening the context of your generated code, unless you explicitly opt-in.
Then learn higher-order functions around that compiler.
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I'd want a language compiler that refuses to build, when it infers the context width of any path within the build is too narrow. Helps to prevent flattening the context of your generated code, unless you explicitly opt-in.
Then learn higher-order functions around that compiler.
This was a nice read. It seemed to me like you were describing flight-recorder black boxes on commercial aircraft, with the contravariance. But later you said you wanted to shape a feedback loop out of it. I'll have to read it again in time.
January 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM
This was a nice read. It seemed to me like you were describing flight-recorder black boxes on commercial aircraft, with the contravariance. But later you said you wanted to shape a feedback loop out of it. I'll have to read it again in time.
I remember hitting this problem a couple of years before Swift 6 came out! I have to say UIKit's methods saved me time (and I'm not a "UIKit is better" evangelist)
January 17, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I remember hitting this problem a couple of years before Swift 6 came out! I have to say UIKit's methods saved me time (and I'm not a "UIKit is better" evangelist)
I've seen you archived this since, but I think it was well worth the shot. It actually goes against an approach I was taking, where I was trying to tweak with just primitives and objects. I need to accept that FTS5 is the go-to for many reasons.
January 17, 2026 at 10:56 AM
I've seen you archived this since, but I think it was well worth the shot. It actually goes against an approach I was taking, where I was trying to tweak with just primitives and objects. I need to accept that FTS5 is the go-to for many reasons.
This sounds like what I've been betting on: that you can use stores of strings/descriptions to build up personas in teams. It's nothing fancy, but I'm betting it can work if the group of people is no bigger than ~15 and the expectations they bring to the group table are not too wide of a set either.
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This sounds like what I've been betting on: that you can use stores of strings/descriptions to build up personas in teams. It's nothing fancy, but I'm betting it can work if the group of people is no bigger than ~15 and the expectations they bring to the group table are not too wide of a set either.