Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Designer/Programmer of Braid and The Witness. President, Thekla, Inc. Partner in Indie Fund. Working hard on a new game and a programming language.
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 the link as a reply to this once it is live.
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
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.
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: youtube.com/watch?v=bUOOaX…
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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.
The most beautiful things were made by people trying to please God, not clients.
Why does YouTube have tweets now, and how do I turn this off? It’s horrible.
That's not what actually happened, though. What happened is that nobody paid any attention to any of these things when they were said politely for years. So now they are said impolitely - often more out of frustration than anything else - and people actually do pay attention.
In fact, young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to college, completely erasing the graduate employment premium. Whereas a healthy premium remains for young women.
My LambdaConf 2025 talk was posted. It's mostly showing tools that we have around visualizing programs and their behavior. youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5Q…
Here's to 70 years of zero observable progress in language design.
Casey's talk from the Better Software Conference has been posted: youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI
We now have enough money to hire one part-time AI researcher
We've raised $100m in Series C funding for Substack. Thrilled to partner with @moodrowghani at @bondcap, TCG, plus @JensGrede, @RichPaul4, and @a16z
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵