@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy
It says "Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee" on my 🇨🇦 passport. You may know me from a book like "JavaScript Allongé," a talk like “Optimism,” or from my work at […]
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@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyI’m now following @SU27. But if we know anything at all about aircraft, we know that a glider has no chance of keeping up with a supersonic air superiority fighter.
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyThe great thing about imagining the future is that you aren't responsible for shipping it. Shipping is the act of resolving conflicts and removing constraints, and the art is actually in those myriad little decisions.
But it's fun to look back at one's […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyThis is the slide within the talk that @chadfowler referenced. It was delivered at Nordic Ruby in Yasuragi in 🇸🇪
“Ruby has beautiful, but static coupling.”
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy“Flying feeds my family; music feeds my soul.”
—Tom Browne, pilot and musician
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy@kmck I really enjoy the pun, because like many Westerners I went through a "read about China" phase as an undergraduate. But I was even shallower than most: I amassed a collection of graphic books by Tsai Chih-Chung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai_Chih-chung
I am not deep. You couldn't […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyIn my lifetime I expect to open up Reddit or LinkedIn or some other mainstream social medium and find people laughing at computing pioneers for "inventing" things when they should have just invented AI and then taken the rest of the year off while AI invents everything else. Same for […]
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyI could use some book recommendations. I am looking for folk tale collections which are 1. from cultures outside of Europe, and 2. were written by people _from_ that culture. Ideally, they should also be translated into English (or German) by people from that culture as well. It would also […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy@juergen_hubert However, these are fairy tales, including some deeply foundational stories such as “Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom,” which is a myth of creation […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyI'm now following @kmck, mostly because I am very pleased with myself for getting both puns in the name.
But now that I write that, I realize it's just the same as those “Only 1% of readers will solve this problem” dopamine traps, isn't it?
Well done, Mo Di, well done.
👏🏽
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy@juergen_hubert A century ago, Helen Roberts was an ethnomusicologist who travelled and recorded music and stories from various “ethnic” communities, including recording Anansi stories and accompanying music/songs in Jamaica.
This repository has phonetic transcriptions of her recordings […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy@juergen_hubert from my distant culture of origin, there are folktales from the Akan people of West Africa centered on a trickster character named Anansi who is an anthropomorphic spider. [1]
There are similar stories told about a rabbit that trace back to other African peoples. Those stories […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyThe four stages of my career:
1. Who is Reginald Braithwaite?
2. We should get Reginald Braithwaite.
3. We should get someone who reads Reginald Braithwaite.
4. Anyone remember Reginald Braithwaite?
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyThe only true definition of our core values is what else we value that we are prepared to sacrifice for our core values.
https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/
I have faced these choices myself: Even without timeline algorithms, markets are […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyEmployers often attempt asymmetrical adversarial tactics against interviewees, like using AI to interview but trying to reject candidates using AI. Or insisting on a salary history before making an offer, but declining to publish the pay history or even just […]
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyLosing my religion.
@volts.wtfReposted by @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyHoly shit.
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy“The first implementation is how you discover what you mean. The second is how you find out whether you wrote it down.”
—Chad Fowler, “The Spec Can Come Later”
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy“The first implementation is how you discover what you mean. The second is how you find out whether you wrote it down.”
—Chad Fowler, “The Spec Can Come Later”
@raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gyBaron Samedi, and his kitty-kat.
