Chris F Carroll

Netflix tries to breath life into the nascent Victorian sci-fi woodcut comic romance genre with its new show, The Day of the Cactii #GirlsOwnCC

Netflix tries to breath life into the nascent Victorian sci-fi woodcut comic romance genre with its new show, The Day of the Cactii #GirlsOwnCC

this differs slightly from Kent Beck's view and he is quite good at software engineering?

the blog posts have escaped this ruler?

Isn't simple greed at the heart of the ecological crisis? The ruthless attempt of one person to get more than other persons escalates exponentially and treats the entire planet as a disposable tool for that end?

I visited the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge last year where I learned that by about 1700 Chinese blue and white porcelain was being copied all the way from Japan across Asia and the whole of Europe to Ireland.

A stem cell that knows what it’s going to turn into sounds like not-a-stem-cell to me. Am I behind the times?

Unfortunately I can’t remember

@kentbeck.com
Is
- Eliminate duplication ruthlessly
- Express intent clearly through naming & structure
- Make dependencies explicit
- Keep methods small & focused on a single responsibility
- Minimize state & side effects
- Use simplest solution that could possibly work

an update to 4Rules of SD?

yes it is. Or at least, it's part of the marketing.

I think you’re right, portable aircons do keep rooms cold in the tropics

While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza.

Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

It’s currently trendy but not really better than predecessors?

I would like to know more of these developers who have read all the books, I have worked with plenty in the past 20 years who haven't read further than Clean something and a blog post by Martin Fowler.

Also it seems to me that naming the ports = naming the purposes = identifying the actors.

It feels to me like the granularity of Port that I naturally want.

'ForDoingX' pushes me to name an X that covers all the use cases you can do via the port. Which I can see worked in Juan's Parking app, but sometimes there are too many Xes per actor.

@totheralistair.bsky.social : Primary Interfaces of #HexagonalArchitecture line up with Primary Actors in the #UseCases. The Actors are defined by their purpose in using the system.
So I could name primary interfaces by actor, e.g. for an eBay clone: ForBuyers, ForSellers, ForAdmin

yea or nay?

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Is this the first death by AI?

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Now that’s what I call a Risk Assessment

It seems to me that “information” is used for the same double meaning, thereby magically bridging the gap between between materialism (where it means Shannon information) and first person experience, where it means, things we know.

Harsh!

people say a lot of stuff, but hey, sometimes they're right!

biologpt.com looks jolly impressive to me, but I’m not a biologist

Otoh there’s also, they contain 20,000 years of reading, which is a lot a lot.

If they were Dutch you could have had Jacaranda op de veranda van een ander

Is it a syllogism, “all things work better for Apple than for MS, this is a thing, therefore … “ :-)

Destruction of human-habitable world not even headline news anymore

I dunno, I think slavery made sense as an institution in cultures that had a sense of what lots of power and wealth meant?

I think you need to sit down and think about what you've done.

He went to visit AJ Ayer?