January 2009
2 posts
The Shape of Code
Some code’s like an office building on a skateboard. Or a car launched from a catapult. And sometimes like you’ve wandered into a dark basement with too many cats, some strapped to land-mines. When you’ve read a lot of code and designed and team-written a bunch of systems you get good at reading code and transferring it into a picture. Bits of code have strong characteristics. A system and the...
Twitter Silence
I’m in twitter silence and it’s weird. Coffee shops are a good place to work for just one reason - they isolate me from the net. That will probably stop when I tether my iPhone to 3G or dump 60 a month on a 3G USB modem but for now, I’m in net silence. It’s an unfamiliar blackout that feels foreign to me nowadays. There’s WiFi here but I’ll never pay for WiFi access. The silence of net...