Nate Meyvis

I've written about encapsulation many times, but I've never written a post about encapsulation specifically. "Encapsulation" can mean a lot of things, both because it has many aspects and because we sometimes mean slightly different things when we discuss

By Marjane Satrapi . Consider a two-dimensional chart: one axis is my knowledge of a book's subject and the other is how much has been written about it. I doubt any book is deeper in the my ignorance - lots written quadrant. And that's the quadrant where

By Ted Gioia . It's absolutely great, and the sort of great book that makes me expect to live a richer life now that I've read it. One small example: this article I saw while I was reading the book makes a lot more sense than it otherwise would have. Ther

!IMG_3289(Error: File type not supported: IMG_3289.HEIC) Some of my recent experiments have combined almost every major theme of this blog: I've put a bunch of work into expanding, documenting, and testing the Zippyflash API. This has been useful for crea

Here are some claims about front-end engineering: An era in front-end engineering began around 2016, when (i) React and Angular (and some successors) took off and (ii) a critical mass of users ran hardware and browsers that could support modern Web experi

This is another "yep, something that is supposed to be good is in fact good" book... ...But I think it'll be a little while before I pick up another Sherlock Holmes book. The characters, or at least the characters of Holmes and Watson, hold up wonderfully

Models are getting better. That means that the most powerful models today are much more powerful than the most powerful models of a month ago, but it also means that today's fast models today are a lot more powerful than the fast models of a month ago. Ev

By Haruki Murakami . This book was supposed to be good, and it is in fact good. It's both morally serious and entertaining. Notes: Once I've decided to read a book, I'm now avoiding not only spoiler-y reviews but even dust jackets and blurbs. When I go ba

By Emily Meggett . Notes: I read this in part to fill in a square in a local library's summer reading Bingo chart. It's probably the first cookbook I've ever read cover-to-cover. There's a particular pleasure in reading a cookbook I don't much want to coo

Cory Doctorow's notion of enshittification not only really caught on but has been durable. If what I see and hear is representative, many people (including tech people) still think about software this way: software is getting worse and there are special e