Brodie Robertson on Linus' Vibe Coding Experiment

If it means not learning Python then I think it's A Good Thing! It's probably good for C++ too. 

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I twice invited Linus to collaborate with me on things. The first thing was just a journalism project. It was 1992 I think, after I had managed to get a 0.99.xx Linux  kernel running on my Intel 286 box and a dialup IP/pptp link to one of the first ISP's in the UK. I sent him an email asking if he would be able to do an on-line interview. I suppose I should have told him a bit more about myself, but I figured he was just too busy hacking filesystem code to be bothered.

Later, in August 2014, according to my notes, I sent him an invitation to rethink software development from the ground up. He didn't reply to that either.

But this guitar effects pedal design sounds really interesting. See Linus Torvalds' Other Hobby. 

On the software architecture insanity I mentioned in the post Alice's Adventures In The Wonderland Wide Web, there was a lively discussion at FUNARCH'25 organised by the ACM SIGPLAN: 

The functional UI paradigms talk was by Michael Sperber and Markus Schlegel. Unfortunately it's unintelligible because they re-amplified the audio output from zoom and recorded that! Try reading the paper, if you can get past the cloudflare widget trying to "verify you're human" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759163.3760429.

See What is a user interface supposed to do?

This one's better: it's about training people who want to be certified by The International Software Architecture Qualification Board. 

19:06 see How to Design Programs, Second Edition. 

28:41 On a bottom-up design process starting with concrete representations of application data. Contrast this with Melinda Lu - Functional Distributed Systems Beyond Request/Response where the events determine the data, in other words, there is a functional relationship between the events and the domain data that they represent. There's a related question on this at 44:33. Is this a game of poker or something? It's not very clear to me what this architecture is meant to be implemented on. 

Michael Sperber is one of the developers of the Essence parser generator for scheme. 

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