The interest in TUIs online is high. In the real world you tend to be constrained and blindfolded by the tools available/allowed. Filtering is peculiar though.

See how the terminal/editor splits? Filtering makes them kiss? Commands that input|output (pipe) work best (compilers, transpilers and code generators). The meta is the limit.

I like wordplay. I helped someone with a conundrum recently. There’s a deep ambiguity where bimonthly = biweekly. The AIs get it right/wrong on a flip of the (contextual) coin.

Then I realized; bots are smarter but it’s complicated. It’s hard to generally distinguish its output. If that’s intelligence, then it has surpassed the average in general. Too easy?

It’s like we’re testing our individualized general ignorance (if that’s a thing). In short; it excels at what you don’t know (yet). Apparently, I’m already an AI whisperer.

I occasionally revisit this wonderful shell scripting bible. On a whim, I checked the home page and it says something along the lines of “having taken up farming”.

Sardonic, maybe. I thought I had 12 (or 13) followers on GitHub but apparently it’s 10. Two (or three) must have betrayed me. Seriously though; I’m considering a bit of CSS to hide the distracting metrics.

I know there were questions about my thoughts on AI. I think time-travelling back to the future is more interesting though. I wasn’t around, but it’s deja vu.

Accessible programming is the theme but I wonder. I’ve met many people who can’t read (no joke).

Maybe the next “big social transistor” scales to the nano (video) message (nm) or pico (from micro).

“Titles and thumbnails” are exoteric. Who knows, perhaps “natural language programming” becomes the most esoteric of them all.

Merriam-Webster’s word last year was authentic. If there’s one thing about authenticity; it’s like the bottom of a clear pool of water appearing shallower than its actual depth.

There’s a kind of performative art here that invokes the so called “Wittgenstein’s silence”, where machinations can be seen but not explained. It sort of works and it’s a banal gift that keeps on giving.

There’s a sophisticated joke hiding inside of HTML’s spec. It’s subtle (pay attention) and goes something like this;

An end tag whose tag name is “sarcasm” [or satire]
Take a deep breath, then act as described in the “any other end tag” entry below.

Some of my configuration files are online aren’t they? Raku is one of the most interesting, if not the most. I’m not an expert but it pretty much has every language construct (e.g promises) plus exotic stuff. The exotic operators are strangely intuitive (and “hyped”).

my @bin = 1..3;
@bin>>++;
say @bin;

I use it for quick CLIs with the multi dispatch CLI feature. The logo is a butterfly (or maybe it’s a raccoon).

I was helping someone out recently. This social protocol table is informative and perhaps there are more in the making.

Thinking back now, the design here is somewhat tongue in cheek. Hopefully it inspires not, anyone who stumbles thereupon.

There’s a smart aleck quip I can write here about economics but I don’t remember what it was.

File name, spelling, and dictionary completion exist too. This is tortured, but combining them makes a meta point? The “meta” is hard to convey, but completion doubles as a way of finding, changing, and passing keywords around. Terminals are fair game too. That’s basic completion in a nutshell (minus the magic).

I read a nice rant article yesterday. The video sources were also fun. Perhaps the greatest demonstration of marketing genius (maybe it’s serendipitous), is setting up the classic us versus them (catnip), but on generalizations that are stealthily ambiguous (intelligence, consciousness, reasoning, and thinking).

It’s somewhat out of context, but Dijkstra (a computer scientist) practiced a very exceptional and very brief kind of philosophizing.