Bracken Spencer

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Let's just go back to IRC again.

If your codebase become a mess due to agents, they won't be able to help you. "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" — Brian Kernighan, 1974

Standard tech company interviews filter these people out by construction.

High performers are rare. In most rooms, they feel out of place. Too intense. Too hungry. Too much. But when you put them around others like them, they come alive. Not because they need competition. But because they finally feel understood. Ambition multiplies in the right environment.

If you can write the problem down clearly, the matter is half solved. Define the problem in plain language before jumping into code.

Come experience the development of lisp out of the MIT AI lab on the Symbolics LISP Machine at the icm.museum 9 minutes from #seatac in Tukwila Washington

You can tell that your "agile" workflow is wasteful ceremony when devs are creating tickets afterwards for fixes they just did that weren't on the "sprint" plan, just so they can get points for their t-shirt size or whatever.

Visual programming system for web development github.com/samuelmtimbo/u…

New blog post: "GNU and the AI reimplementations" antirez.com/news/162

There are people who think Lisp developers make syntax like this (+ (* 1 2) 3 4) because they are lazy. Homoiconicity is adding so much flexibility to the language, it is a shame all languages are not trying to achieve it.

OO was invented in 1976. This year is the 50th Anniversary of OO. Let's celebrate by re-reading Bobrow and Winograd's "Overview of KRL"—the first published OO paper ever, introducing words like "object-oriented", "inheritance" and "prototypes" in their modern meaning.

Software engineering is the only career where shipping real products… is less impressive than solving puzzles fast.

The Genealogy of Lisp 1 These are the generations of Lisp, in the days when the machines were young and the parentheses were many. 2 In the beginning there was LISP 1.5, and it begat LISP 2, yet LISP 2 walked not long upon the earth and was abandoned by its people. 3 And LISP 1.5 begat Maclisp, and Maclisp dwelt among the hackers of MIT. 4 And Maclisp begat Interlisp, and Interlisp begat MDL, and they spread among the machines of the laboratories. 5 And Maclisp also begat Lisp Machine Lisp, which prospered upon the great Lisp machines. 6 And Lisp Machine Lisp begat Scheme, and the years of Scheme were many and elegant. 7 And Scheme begat R5RS, and R6RS, and R7RS, small yet wise. 8 And in those days there arose NIL, and NIL begat ZIL, the language of Zork, wherein adventurers wandered in darkness. 9 And from the line of Maclisp there also came Franz Lisp, and muLisp, and many implementations. 10 And in the fullness of time the elders gathered and brought forth Common Lisp, and it was made according to the ANSI standard, and its specification was exceedingly long. 11 And Common Lisp begat many children: XLISP, and Le Lisp, and Emacs Lisp, which dwelt within the editor. 12 And AutoLISP served the builders of drawings, and PicoLisp walked quietly among minimalists. 13 And from the lineage of Scheme came MIT Scheme, and Chez Scheme, and Gambit, each according to its implementation. 14 And EuLisp arose, and ISLISP, and OpenLisp, and they sought harmony among dialects. 15 And PLT Scheme begat Racket, which changed its name and went forth to teach the students. 16 And newLISP and GNU Guile were also born, serving those who desired extension and scripting. 17 And in later days appeared Visual LISP and Arc, spoken of in the writings of Paul. 18 And Clojure arose upon the JVM, immutable and persistent. 19 And Hy arose also, speaking Lisp with the accent of Python. 20 These are the families of Lisp according to their generations, their macros, and their parentheses. 21 Blessed are they who balance their parentheses, for theirs is the kingdom of the REPL.

Chicago Board of Trade Building (1930), the Art Deco masterpiece by architects Holabird & Root, made famous as the central backdrop in this scene from the "Untouchables"

The Babashka Conf schedule is now live! #schedule" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">babashka.org/conf/#schedule #babashka #babashka_conf #clojure

This book was like the Bible to me when I was a kid.

I wanna hang out with people that have the mindset to name a device "CONTROL DATA 6500".

Process v0.0.26 — Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough process.ink

HCL stands for Holy Common Lisp and y'all ain't ready

Bill Gosper on the console of his Symbolics XL400 during VCF 6.0 in 2003 @ComputerHistory demonstrating a color “Gosper curve” with a color flowsnake print on the wall. The XL400 is now on display and demonstrated at icm.museum Bill at the AI lab PDP-6 running his implementation of Conway’s game of life. #vcf #vintagecomputing #lisp #ai #hacker #graphics #life #fractal #art