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One level of indirection at each layer
“Indirection” is pointing to something by name or reference, rather than pointing to the thing itself. Indirection is everywhere in computing. Pointers…
Gordon Brander
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Layered protocols
Layering is a special form of modularity that restricts interactions between modules. A module assigned to a layer can use any of the modules in the…
Gordon Brander
May 22
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Compositional components, emergent protocols
Compositionality is the principle that a system should be designed by composing together smaller subsystems, and reasoning about the system should be…
Gordon Brander
May 8
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Subconscious Alpha 0.0.4
Wikilinks come to Subconscious. Also *bold*, _italic_, `code`.
Gordon Brander
Apr 30
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Credible exit
Well, it looks like Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Pandemonium! Amplifying the angst is the fact that the Twitter is fundamentally feudal. This town…
Gordon Brander
Apr 26
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The internet is modular
There are specific reasons why the internet is so generative, and they can be mapped back to architectural choices. One of the key architectural…
Gordon Brander
Apr 16
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Stepping stones in possibility space
As with all open-ended problems in life, the stepping stones are unknown.
Gordon Brander
Apr 4
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Possibility space
By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV (1621) In The Library of…
Gordon Brander
Mar 18
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Launching Subconscious Alpha-1
We’re starting a slow-rollout for Subconscious. We’ve made it to the starting line! Alpha testers will be invited to an email list that will announce…
Gordon Brander
Mar 7
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Instructions for uncommon situations
Marina Abramović is making a deck of cards. Each card bears instructions to be carried out by the reader. Earlier notes on card decks for creative…
Gordon Brander
Feb 28
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ObservableStore
A library for Elm-flavored SwiftUI. ObservableStore helps you craft more reliable apps by centralizing all of your application state into one place, and…
Gordon Brander
Feb 27
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Block reference mechanisms
Writing is linear, serial, and one side-effect of communicating serially is that you have to force ideas into some sort of order. And so: stories…
Gordon Brander
Feb 22
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