August 2011
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“Software today is not engineering. Building the Empire State Building with three...”
– Paraphrasing Dr Alan Kay in his talk “Programming and Scaling”. I got the same sense of depression over the state of our industry when I read about Doug Engelbart’s amazing NLS system from ‘68 and the Hypertext Editing System in ‘67. Yes, we have millions and millions...
Bret Victor, beast of burden →
Remember that amazing UI math video I posted a while back? He got a nice interview and article in nicecodesign.com. Apparently it was made by Bret Victor. I didn’t know who Bret Victor was until a few moments ago, but it seems he’s pretty much awesome. His web site is rather amazing, and his portfolio page about his work at Apple is very funny and very sad at the same time. He also...