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+ideas with no tangibility;
+ideas with irrelevant supports;
+ideas without value;
+ideas' witlessness;
+ideas' witnesses;
+ideas-
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+2022-06-19: Some things I've been thinking about
+
+	The UNIX philosophy ("create things that do one thing well") is a
+mandate rather than a suggestion; programs can and will fall under their own
+weight if you allow them to become too complex with too many things dependent
+on other things. From a software design standpoint I've found this to be very
+useful.
+	However, I think focusing on software complexity is treating the
+symptoms of Bad Computing rather than the disease. The core issue is that
+humans should not have to change themselves for a machine - the machine should
+only ever be changed for the human. After all, a computer is simply a tool.
+Interchangeable (right?), repairable (right?), intuitive (right?), and a means
+to an end (right?).
+	Lately humans have been having to change themselves for machines. There
+are easily comprehendable issues - e.g. "I don't have a first name, how do I
+fill out this form?" - but there are also denser, deeper problems in this
+regard - in fact, even computer literacy education is itself changing humans in
+favor of machines. Software should be designed to be basically intuitive to
+someone that's never used a computer and ideally need no further skills.
+	This probably started with the Old Engineers who were basically
+breathing computer before computers were even existent in their modern form.
+Graybeards (women and nonbinary fellows included within this word, use your
+imagination) didn't need to change themselves for computers because they and
+machina were already kin. Then they made simple interfaces for the restivus and
+hoped it was enough, and it was for a while.
+	Once we defeat the status quo, the rest will be easy.
+
+	The Center for Disease Control in the United States isn't perfect but I
+trust them a bit more than a bald guy on Spotify.
+
+	Today's Juneteenth, which is a memory to a pretty cool event, the end
+of lawful slavery in the United States.
+
+ + diff --git a/homepage/index.html b/homepage/index.html index 96ae752..8a23926 100644 --- a/homepage/index.html +++ b/homepage/index.html @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ I'm vaccinated against COVID-19. Are you? #trinitisms, #zelda; ephemeral: +/blah, #extensions, #htmlbeliefs, #kinlist,