Good afternoon, friends!
Tha mi ailtire bathar-bog
Tha mi ag obair an-dràsta aig Voze
My name is Cory. I am a software architect. I currently work at Voze
I am learning Scottish Gaelic.
and now, you are too.
I am happy to be here with you today.
Architect
Developer Multiplier
JavaScript acolyte
@ voze
(that's a whole talk in it self)
(and rational)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Printing_and_writing_materials_-_their_evolution_%281904%29_%2814777458662%29.jpg
anno domini
Great Engine for Chaos
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Crafts and craftmenship are destroyed when production is commodotized.
New information technologies enable ideas previously on the fringe to recieve a wider audience
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New information technologies enable ideas previously on the fringe to recieve a wider audience
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anno domini
Great Engine for Human Flourishing
Print culture was a critical component in the shaping of U.S. History by quickly spreading news and opinions to a wider audience than ever before, encouraging people's interest in politics, literature, and science during the Enlightenment Period influenc[ing] the increase of literacy in colonialist society. Newspapers, books, art, and other mediums were now being shared with almost eighty-percent of the population.
https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/print-culture-throughout-the-enlightenment-period/hm1oK8qkgaW8pARn
The spread and distribution of ideas
Even those who couldn’t read were impacted by these revolutionary ideas. When Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776, despite a literacy rate of only 15% in the American colonies, more copies of the pamphlet were printed and sold than there were people living in the colonies! This proves how information can spread even to those who can’t directly access it.
https://magazine.machinedalal.com/the-printing-press-how-one-invention-changed-the-world/
The spread and distribution of ideas
The English philosopher Francis Bacon, a key figure in the development of the scientific method, identified the printing press as one of the three inventions that fundamentally changed the world. For centuries, science had been largely a solitary pursuit. Scholars were often separated by geography, language, and the slow, error-prone process of hand-copying texts.
https://magazine.machinedalal.com/the-printing-press-how-one-invention-changed-the-world/
The spread and distribution of ideas
[T]he huge demand for printed material spawned the creation of an entirely new industry of printers, brick-and-mortar booksellers and enterprising street peddlers. Among those who got his start as a printer's apprentice was future Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin.
Books came to serve as a means to self-education as well as to offer entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the already educated. The range of materials in print, and the use of printed matter for transactions of all kinds, was unprecedented.
Lithography, chromolithography, and also photography added new possibilities to image production and reproduction, and styles of journalism as well as illustration reflected these opportunities.
https://www.hob.gseis.ucla.edu/HoBCoursebook_Ch_9.html
More and varied ideas leads to more and decentralized power structures
Immediately prior to the invention of the printing press, Christians were essentially under one of two heads; The Catholic church in Rome, and the Orthodox Church in Constantinople.
https://www.oikoumene.org/member-churches
Today there are over 2.6 billion Christians. The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of over 352 member churches which represents only a small fraction of the worlds Christians (0.5 billion).
https://thinkingwest.com/2024/09/05/the-printing-revolution-how-mass-media-destabilized-the-west/
Cheaper access to information led to a massive growth in literacy, fueling desire for acccess to even more information.
Great Engine for Human Flourishing
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Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Programming, when stripped of all it's circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.
Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliablity
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The meaning of simple means unentangled, not twisted together with something else.
Rich Hickey: Simple made Easy
Simple does not mean 'I already know what it means'.
Rich Hickey: Simple made Easy
The second law may be formulated by the observation that the entropy of isolated systems left to spontaneous evolution cannot decrease, as they always tend toward a state of thermodynamic equilibrium
Second Law of Thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
Note: This slide was taken nearly verbatim from Rich Hickey's excellent 2011 talk "Simple made easy"
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md
365jsthings.tech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/1stdraftdesign/