jlipps
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Comment · 9 months ago
Yes, good point! Further underscoring the fetishistic nature of efficiency as highest value ;-)
Comment · 9 months ago
I love the references to Jacques Ellul's ideas, which I think are interesting to reflect on in an AI age. It helps make clear that what is fundamentally at stake in much technological "progress" is an (often only tacitly acknowledged) sublimation of "efficiency" to the place of highest value.
What's fascinating is that this value elevation seems to have gone largely unchallenged, despite being in essence an arbitrary value choice. Other choices are possible. And, I hope, still are possible, despite what the bigcorps declare must be the case in order to maximize shareholder returns.
Comment · 1 year ago
RIP Mikeal. Will always fondly remember our random philosophy/religion chats at tech conferences.
Comment · 5 years ago
I found myself frustrated with Node’s child_process library. Some great primitives but a lot of boilerplate to do simple tasks like return a Promise when a subprocess is known to have started. So I built teen_process as a wrapper with a nicer async interface, helpful defaults, and all around cleaner ways of doing subprocess management with Node. https://github.com/appium/node-teen_process
(NB: once the project was determined to be useful we moved it to the Appium org and it has seen lots of contributions from others, not just me)
Comment · 5 years ago
My brother (SF) and I (Vancouver) have some epic indie alt/rock/pop tunes! https://splendourhyaline.bandcamp.com/album/present-future