Interjected Future

Where is the sandbox in your code base?

I was watching Casey Muratori and the Primeagen the other day, and they were talking about the high-level architectural design of the core data inside of Primeagen's game. What Casey says sounds counter-intuitive for anyone from a traditional OOP software background. He suggests not committing to an organization of data

programming

Visual Programming Should Start in the Debugger

Just like CAD didn't make everyone an industrial designer, visual programming isn't going to make everyone a programmer. Whether textual or visual, there'd still be a lot of underlying concepts (and how they are composed) to learn. But still, I think it's underexplored. Most visual programming paradigms focus on coding--the

programming

Recurse Center Return Statement

💡The Recurse Center encourages recent graduates to write about their experience in the form of a Return Statement. Below is mine. The 12-week experience at RC did remind me of the story of the tall, strong, and unbendable Oak that towers over the short, thin, and flexible Reeds. On an

techno-optimism

This is not a device. It's an invitation to explore the frontier.

Recently, the Rabbit r1 launched. It's a new handheld device that promises a new primary interaction model with compute: by talking to them in the context of the real world. In turn, they would help us perform actions to help us with unstructured, but menial tasks throughout our day. The

programming

An incomplete Unicit Merkle Tree

👉When I had mistakenly thought that Prolly Trees weren't unict [https://interjectedfuture.com/lab-notes/lab-note-030-the-trick-to-unicity-of-prolly-trees/] , I thought maybe an interesting way forward was to leverage the same mechanism CRDTs use to converge. Below is a mathematical description of what I called a Lattice Merkle Tree, still incomplete. I had time-boxed

retro review

Year 2023 in Review

Compared to 2021 [https://interjectedfuture.com/2021-year-in-review/], I was much more focused this year. Compared to 2022, I have built more conviction. And starting in September, I started to have full days to work, rather than just the nights and weekends. Unlike 2021, I wasn't trying a lot of different

crdt

CRDTs Turned Inside Out

🔰If CRDTs are new to you, here are some introductory links. - An interactive intro to CRDTs [https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/] - An introduction to state-based CRDTs [https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/the-state-of-a-state-based-crdts/] - CRDTs for non-academics [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBU70EjwGfw] - CRDT: The Hard Parts [https:

crdt

Trade-offs between Different CRDTs

What are the trade-offs between different kinds of CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types)? Most introductory talks cover just state-based and operations-based CRDTs because that's what the original paper formulated. But since then, there have been other variations, and I haven't seen much written about them in blog posts, so I'll

programming

Information-rich Cache

I was surprised to learn that different stacks of software all do some type of computational analysis to better do its job. The CPU does it to figure out how to pipeline instructions. Compilers do it to feed CPUs better set of instructions. Front-end frameworks do it to figure out

programming

Imagining a sample TodoMVC with an immutable database

As an exercise to see what the developer experience might look like, I outlined what it might look like for a React-like single-page app. The app that's outlined below is a variation on the TodoMVC.

programming Featured

The state management library front-ends are looking for is a database

State is a cross-cutting concern. Weak equivalence hinders re-rendering. Distance between code and data breeds complexity. State transitions need linear traces.

Featured

Persistent Data Structure Redux

This is a review of all the resources I found and learned about persistent data structures in the course of looking for a solution for maintaining state. Complexity from maintaining state One of the hard things about programming is how to maintain and manage state [https://interjectedfuture.com/the-broken-half-of-interactive-programs/], especially

programming

Compiling Composable Reactivity

What if the changes to the input result in state changes that can't be computed fast enough to keep the user interface snappy for an interactive program? Reactivity to the rescue. It's a way to drastically reduce the amount of computation required to compute an output given a change to the input.

web

The Broken Half of Interactive Programs

While most front-ends today have largely agreed on the design of the rendering subsystem, we seem to be grappling with design of the interactive subsystem.

web Featured

Destroyed at the Boundaries

Shared mutable state invites complexity into our programs. Programming languages help with this complexity inside a program, but not across network boundaries between programs.

retro review

Year in Review

A review of the wanderings in 2021, and a focus for 2022.

pipeline

Easy Backfilling with Hooks and Components

I implemented a backfill mechanism with the basic hooks, so when the pipeline is brought back up after some downtime, it'll not only do its job of ingesting new blocks for interest rates, but it will also see how many of the last 128 blocks it missed and ingest those.

cryptocurrency Featured

What are DeFi's Prospects?

In the last couple of years, people have been building a global, open alternative to every financial products you use today, accessible to anyone in the world with a smartphone and internet connection.

pipeline

Hooks for Pipelines

I decided to write my own version of React, but for the purposes of building ETL backends for small to medium workloads.

cryptocurrency Featured

NFTs unbundle ownership from enjoyment

If you view NFTs as a progression of the unbundling of ownership and enjoyment, the enjoyment got digitized first. And now, we're seeing ownership being digitized. But digital ownership is kinda weird because it had digital properties like low cost to store and distribute, yet it's scarce.