Sodium Dreams

LISP remains an influential language in ‘key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.’

If you change this on a server already in use, it will break all of the outstanding working copies and your users will hunt you down with pitchforks and flaming torches.

As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X.

AIR apps are like modern day Java applets… Sure, they run on every platform. But they also suck on every platform.

The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium is new, but the craft is ancient.

Hipsters have managed the illusion of living without any means of financial sustenance for a while. Now we get to see them do it for real.

Even if you’re designing for professional programmers, in the end your programming language is basically a user-interface design. You will get much better results regardless of what you’re trying to do if you think of it as a user-interface design.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

Capitalism without down times is like Catholicism without hell.

The world is a dangerous place, and it’s a lot smaller than it used to be. We can’t just keep the bad parts at an arm’s length anymore. Even if we blot out terrorism, there are still car accidents, heart disease, natural disasters, school shootings, chainsaw killers, child molesters, asteroids, collapsing bridges, Italians, second-hand smoke, Putin, Oprah, and Nickelback.