Well you know, someone has to write the great software novel of our time. If no one else was gonna do it, i had to give it a try

Lol, you know the lore

Someone has to reclaim them for mankind

Due to hug of death, backup is accessible here: https://sebastiancarlos.github.io/hacker-fables

Salvador Dali - Corpus Hypercubus

Yes! That’s exactly the inspiration.

Thanks!

I was actually wondering if this could be packaged. At least AUR should be doable.

Great question! Yes, Backbone appears twice.

First, it’s artistic license. I think the Backbone.js school is the “backbone” of our current front-end era, for better or worse. So, it fits that the backbone of the hyper-cubical cross is represented by Backbone.js (twice). Spoiler alert: The cover art’s meaning becomes clear around the halfway point on the book, if you’re curious.

Second: Yeah, that was a “happy accident” by genAI. To be fair the first $50 that gets donated for this book on my Kofi link go directly to commission a real artist for a cover remake.

That’s “Backbone” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone.js)

It was the hot front-end framework before Angular (and React).

glad it landed, thanks for checking it out

I’m wondering the exact same thing

The podcast source transcript has more context. Apparently “him” was whoever was in charge of MSBNx, an unrelated, Bayesian Network thing, which Bill Gates was also obsessed with.

Yes, I do get paid. Sometimes considerably (for what tech writing can provide).

Indeed, writing tech articles on Medium has allowed me to get some extra income/free-time in between jobs, which I use to upskill myself and then share what I learn with the community (with some amount of friction regarding the paywall). This self-reinforcing loop is quite appealing to me, and - I would argue - aligns somewhat with my take on the Kantian categorical imperative.

For what it’s worth, I like the typesetting. Medium also has extremely good SEO, likely from some direct negotiation with search engines, I assume. Eventually I plan to move my tech writings to my own blog, with some sort of minimal ad system, no paywalls. Also, I usually unpaywall my tech articles after the window of high income dries up.

I updated the post to use the “friend link” which should allow you to read for free. (I didn’t realize you could edit the link on lemmy after publishing).

in which case I’d much rather pay directly to the authors.

All my stories have a link to my ko-fi at the end, but the income from that is significantly less than what I get from Medium directly.

Edit: Thanks @hayk@lemmy.ml for donating! Much appreciated!

Hmm, you must be Germænic or nordic. You know, places in which the soccer ball freezes during winter before the invention of frost resistant turf

Thanks bro, just doing my best to keep our kind employed and informed. Long live the machine whisperers

Every software system worth its salt should have safeguards against Nokia nunchuck attacks.

You probably have an extension which removes the “Friend link” query param from the URL

Thanks! I borrowed the open source katana bit from unix surrealism

This is a nice overview: CLPFD and CLPZ: Prolog Integer Arithmetic

mother can be used in several ways. If both X and Y variables are uninitialized, then it looks for all mother relationships. If one of them is initialized, it looks for matching relationships. If both are initialized, it returns true if such a relationship exists.