Chris Krycho

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I have a slow-simmering essay (maybe someday I’ll get it out) that sort of “rhymes” with that: what if as developers of software we understood ourselves to be stewards of what we have made, recognizing that we have a responsibility to the people who have come to depend on what we have built? On the one hand, I hate how backwards-compatibility-forever distorts Windows. On the other, I deeply *respect* it. And I wonder if the distortion is inherent or “just” a failing of the implementation.

It is a commonplace among techno-enthusiasts that you “must must live with a technology” before you can have a justified opinion about it. This is so obviously false that it would hardly justify a response if it were not so common—but it is, and so, a response: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/you-can-rightly-judge-things-you-have-not-tried/

There’s a good chance you’ve seen Nilay Patel’s “software-brained” essay going around over the past week. If that rings true to you, let me give a shameless plug for this talk I gave a few years ago, which hits on many of the same themes but in much-expanded form: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/elsewhere/seeing-like-a-programmer/

Orion 1.0 from @kagihq@mastodon.social is out! If you’re a Mac user and you haven’t given it a try, you should: the WebKit engine from Safari but an even faster and lighter-weight browser, that also supports using Chrome and Firefox extensions. It’s nice! https://v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/orion-1.0/

@kagihq@mastodon.social Thanks for such an excellent tool—and for daring to take a swing at such a huge space with such massive competitors!