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On Taste

AI has taken over the mechanical work, leaving taste as the thing we still claim for ourselves. But what is taste, and is it really out of reach?

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There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech

Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. A tool is thus any kind of thing that *lets you do...

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Bug blindness

I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work, but most people I talk to don't see anything like this. For a long time, I thought this had something to do...

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Omnipresent availability risks in cloud software

I'm using this post to gather together some common threads I've noticed after reading write-ups of major cloud software incidents. By cloud software, I'm referring to software-as-a-service (do people even say that anymore? in the cloud. This doesn't just...