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2026-05-03 13:34 UTC
@theohonohan@graphics.social I glanced over his 2021 extended paper and it looks very interesting! But oh, it’ll take me a while to work through, it’s dense and made up of so many pointers to more ideas. 😆
But I did read the Being and Becoming section just now, which makes sense! It’s not super practical, but I liked his illustration of undo, where he replays the log until the point he wanted to undo to.
I played with Westphal’s ideas in code today and like what I’m seeing.
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@theohonohan@graphics.social 2026-05-03 14:22
@peter@mastodon.gassner.io Lampson is trying to distill and pass on a lifetime of systems programming advice, and I definitely agree that the papers are not really practical cookbooks!