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In the beginning of 2017 I lost one feeling. The feeling of thinking sharp. I said the “feeling” because I could never know if it was merely a feeling or I was actually sharp at thinking. I used to look pay a load of attention to my surroundings, while walking, taking transit, or in a…

The Problem People have been writing adapter code since the first software, and into every next software. There are many ways to phrase the problem. Most Valid Arguments Yet Formal Language Computation How can some layperson easily program? Would this require them to learn a programming language? Such perspective places too much attention to, metaphorically,…

I often joke that we should assign unique identifiers (UID) to everything. The important points in my articles are labeled with UIDs, not numbered 1.2.3 like theorems in a paper. This is not a fetish; it has an epistemic reason. Here is a very simple example. Someone can be known as A and B on…

ISO-8601 Date Format This site and some other places I manage have been changed to ISO-8601 date format (from US English long date like “December 1, 2023”). It is straightforward, unostentatious, engineering justice. Sometimes I also manually type / instead of -. “Tech” The way Americans use the word “tech” is extremely superficial. Much of…

When designing interfaces following an engineering spirit, I found the usual bordered/backgrounded button too intrusive for dense (read: professional) scenes. Professionals do NOT want CTA’s everywhere. But wait: why do we have bordered/backgrounded buttons in the first place? If that is due to all physical buttons having a shape, we ought to rethink the digital…

It was not at all a surprise to me when I witnessed how Americans use resources. They would leave lights on during month-long breaks at the university, wrap merchandise in multiple layers of virgin plastic or plastic-paper composite packaging, and finally mindlessly discard them at a bin. Americans produce the most garbage in the world…