Telling Rocks What To Think
Telling Rocks What To Think First post on this new blog format. I'm establishing this medium for "recoding" and recording my professional tech studies, experiences, impressions, plans, problems, and solutions. Erin Spiceland said "Coding is the art of telling rocks what to think." It's metaphorical, but not by much. Digital computing mostly relies on silicon working its logic and magic. You talk to it in painfully specific code. You need all the material, semantic, and verbal components just right. If you get it right, then it talks back. Get it wrong, and you have just found a "bug". I named my blog "Debug and Rebug" to indicate two key principles of my approach to coding. First, "debug": When you write your code, it will never work perfectly, as you envision it. Perfect running never happens; it's an inevitable consequence of entropy, human lateral thinking, and logic's inexorable conflict with our wants. Tho...