Benjamin Pollack's Rants and Thoughts on Technology - bitquabit

After a long time spent in management, I found myself switching back to an IC role in February. Since then, I’ve spentmore time than I’d care to admit re-learning how to do all the things I used to do. Or…maybe not re-learning outright,but…

While I unfortunately haven’t had a lot of time to contribute to Factor for a couple of years, I still love using it for the little random programming tasks I have to deal with day-to-day. Factor’s design makes it perfect for the kind of exploratory...

For quite some time, I’ve had an appreciation for text-based tooling. Not (necessarily) for terminal-based tooling, mind—there are some meaningful benefits to using a GUI, after all—but for solutions that truly think of plaintext as their source of....

The best teacher I ever had on how to write and how to code was a complete charlatan hack who conned his way into Duke’s English department. No wait, hear me out: the prof (let’s call him Matt, because I’m not even entirely sure he gave us his real....