From the "Dedication" page of the famous book, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs": This book is dedicated, in respect and admiration, to the spirit that lives in the computer. “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shaed every now and then, and aer a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, seing them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. e world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.” —Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) #gn

My written works are back online. Here's a little treasure, still a work-in-progress (as is all of my writing):

Gondōlla - A Galactic Spiritual Mythology

The Tragedy of Sávofei - Gondōlla - A Galactic Spiritual Mythology - Obsidian Publish

The Master of War is The Master of Mind Introduction *This work has been part of my written works now for many years. It is a tale told among the p...

The Tragedy of Sávofei This work has been part of my written works now for many years. It is a tale told among the people of my stories, and is taught at The Academy to encourage young ones to consider that their actions may be constantly and consistently watched, and they should behave in a manner that befits this. It also carries the dark connotation, in the later years within my Data Crash stories, as it bears the mark of the total domination, mind and memory, of rulers upon the lives of the people. It is one of my prouder stories, though sad, and dark. The arc of this tale is thus: Savofei was a respected General of an army. A key facet of this army is the use of a sort of mind-connected battle meditation which allows a General to see through the eyes of their soldiers, inspire them to new heights, and at need, totally control their actions. This General, at one time, meets the wife of one of his soldiers, and immediately falls madly in love. Infatuation causes a plummet in his ability to focus, and his wartime prowess begins to show cracks. Maddened by his obsession with this woman, he begins looking through his soldier's eyes off the battlefield, which culminates in a moment of passion when he takes control of his soldier while in bed with his wife, thus engaging in acts of passion through the soldier, with the soldier's wife. The tale inevitably concludes with a final stroke of madness, in which Savofei causes the soldier to be murdered on the battlefield by again taking control of his actions, and thrusting him directly into danger, thinking this would allow him then to marry the now-widowed woman of his obsession. But, we learn in the last moments, that it was Pharaoh who murdered the solider... through Savofei. In fact, it was Pharaoh who coveted the wife of the soldier most, and it was he who was acting through Savofei, instilling the madness of love in his heart, inflaming him to passion, and inevitably causing Savofei to destroy his career, and himself. Some tellings of the tale, especially those taught at The Academy of Scribes, place Pharaoh on a much holier pedestal, painting Pharaoh as a dealer of justice upon Savofei and not a desirous man. Thus follows The Tragedy of Sávofei... (follow the link above to read the tale)

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"The Republic has been organized into the first Galactic Empire..." "... for a safe, and secure, society."

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We build the road At the expense of the forest. We make the data lines At the expense of planting Art. I wish for Programmers To take their rightful mount As Artists among Artists Whose craft produces magic Of the stone and of lightning Capable of stirring the Spirit As can the oils of Masters past Spilled on canvas through passions of Soul. So too we in ivory towers So close to the cold dark stars Gaze into the Universe And mettle our crafts with it. Prepare a place for Divinity And Divinity will come No matter the medium, So Programmer, Weaver of Words, Maker of Machines, Remember your place Among the greatest of Artists Where you, too, may aspire until death. #poetry #asemic #spirit

It's a fine line between "vibe coding" and "fart coding". Don't let your codebase run on farts!!

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