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Fond memories! My first job out of uni was building interfaces for embedded devices using XUL/javsacript/xpcom/c++. The technologies were fun to develop in at the time and it felt special to be somewhat of a part of such a big open project.

I too was going to mention Robodebt.

In addition to wasting money, it caused all sorts of trauma to already vulnerable people - sadly in some cases leading to suicide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme#Allegations_of...).

My team at GetUp built a tool to automate initiating the process of challenging these requests https://fraudstop.com.au/

I think my biggest recommendation is David Graeber. Perhaps something like Towards an Anarchist Anthropology. In a similar way to Kropotkin, Graeber challenges a lot of narratives that form the basis of capitialism e.g. that all we did was barter before we had money, that it was the enlightenment that first introduced the world to freedom and equality etc.. Instead, he shows that there are many cultures in the past, and contemporary, that have significant anarchist tendencies (mutual aid, direct democracy, solidarity etc). I believe understanding this is key to expanding the anarchist tendencies in our own culture.

haha great! You are correct - this is where i pulled the term from! Such a great book.

Can totally relate! The Dispossessed was another seminal book for me.

"Conquest of Bread" had a huge impact on my politics. It cut through the capitalist realist narrative that we're all in economic competition and that capitalism is the only sane solution. It made me feel like another world is possible. I changed my life to pursue these other possibilities ever since.

Satisfying static types AND 100% code cov is a significant burden.

If you're intrigued by this approach, or perhaps by a similar approach with typescript, I highly recommend checking out a strictly strong typed language at some point. I've been coding in Elm and a little in Haskell, and I find that the type checking is so thorough and exhaustive that I only need to write very few tests to get strong guarantees. This was a very pleasant change from Rails where you are encouraged to aim for 100% code cov, and as such, would spend well over 40% of my development writing tests.

Great comment! This brought back so many similar memories - spending hours configuring Enlightenment and tweaking my desktop with transparency and flames (I hope Rasterman is still out there coding somewhere), everything2, audioscrobbler and last.fm.

You're so right that the internet seemed so full of possibilities.

I had been thinking about building a reverb in max. Thanks for sharing!

Also Valhalla's supermassive is one of my favorite reverbs.

This is a fantastic post and I really appreciate your rationale (having faced similar struggles). A limited but simplified set of Haskell libraries that offers similar ergonomic benefits to Elm is very appealing! It would be great if this became a community project.

I'm not sure if the poster is from NoRedInk, but my only feedback is that I'd love to see some sample code that demonstrates the power of the handle pattern in use?

I followed the link that discussed the pattern which then referenced this https://github.com/jaspervdj/fugacious. It would be better tho if there was a concise sample.

Some of the wildest sci fi I've ever read. So many mind stretching concepts are explored while still remaining a great story.