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Designer/Programmer of Braid and The Witness. President, Thekla, Inc. Partner in Indie Fund. Working hard on a new game and a programming language.

Boulder, CO
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RT @cmuratori: In a few minutes I will be doing a live stream where I go over some of the papers I used to create The Big OOPs. I'll post t….
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RT @LemmySmackett: "Okay, so imagine a magic button.". "I'm imagining the button.". "If you press the button—". "What color is it?". "It's….
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Sometime tonight (after normal working hours) we'll do a stream where we refactor modules/Input, which is some of the oldest code distributed with the compiler. we'll discuss what we can do to modernize it and make it nicer, try out ideas live, etc.
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If you are making a file manager, and giving a talk about it, you should use the file manager as your slideshow program, is what I always say:.
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RT @soren_iverson: Ticketmaster upsell to not be featured on the Jumbotron
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RT @Rainmaker1973: «A world that doesn't exist anymore»
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The reason you see "yes men" a lot is survivorship bias. The situations full of "no men" did not ever reach a state of success to begin with.
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Of all these people lamenting the disappearance of Colbert's show, how many actually watch the show, if you don't count clips retweeted on BlueSky? Probably almost 0.
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This late night TV discussion is weird: if you look at the numbers, they say that the audience is too old now for advertisers to care about, and TV will just disappear soon?. ----. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert came closest to Gutfeld!’s viewership among the late-night.
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RT @HumbleFlow: The most beautiful things were made by people trying to please God, not clients.
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Why does YouTube have tweets now, and how do I turn this off? It’s horrible.
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RT @cmuratori: @dubya_brian @TheGingerBill That's not what actually happened, though. What happened is that nobody paid any attention to an….
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RT @jburnmurdoch: In fact, young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to college, compl….
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RT @Jonathan_Blow: My LambdaConf 2025 talk was posted. It's mostly showing tools that we have around visualizing programs and their behavio….
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RT @cmuratori: Here's to 70 years of zero observable progress in language design.
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Casey's talk from the Better Software Conference has been posted:.
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RT @cjgbest: We now have enough money to hire one part-time AI researcher.
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RT @jansramek: 1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.”. Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introdu….
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