Colby Russell

Joined 16 June 2020
(→‎Opinion: add https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293622)
 
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"The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working" from [https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php]
 
"[This] is software design on the scale of decades: every detail is intended to promote software longevity and independent evolution. Many of the constraints are directly opposed to short-term efficiency." from [https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven#comment-724]
 
[https://graph.global/?id=1347 "That which is not tied on will be lost"] from [https://michaelkarpeles.com/curations/life-lessons#sec-2]
 
"It should travel with all the things that it needs" from [https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Alan_Kay_at_OOPSLA_1997:_The_Computer_Revolution_has_not_Happened_Yet]
 
"The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working" from [https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php]
 
[[File:Wirfs-Brock and Wilkerson - 1988 - An Overview of Modular Smalltalk.pdf]]
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Tight coupling over fragile links is one of the industry's biggest problems right now. Tight coupling and fragile links are enemies.
 
Additionally, for all the inroads that are made in increasing the power of software, there is a phantom contingent whose work has the ''effect'' (even without the explicit intent) of keeping computing and general software development inaccessible instead of more accessible. This type of obscurantism is a form of gatekeeping and needs to be minimized.
'''WIP''' (or '''Works Not Started'''), in first person:
 
Other '''WIP''' (or '''Works Not Started'''; position papers), in first person:
 
* The case for the triple script module system
* The case for accepting the W3C–WHATWG hypertext system as the universal medium, aka "Browsers, builds, and burdens";—the basic thrust being, "The WWW is an acceptable [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system) NLS]"
* The case for object-functional programming <!-- some discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293622 -->
 
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* [[User:Colby Russell/Deploy.app.htm]]
* [[User:Colby Russell/Every module a program]]
* [[User:Colby Russell/Non-uniform build scripts]]
* [[User:Colby Russell/Debugging]]