2026-07-06 11:29 UTC
"…it is useful for a biologist to think about chemical processes, and for a chemist to think about interactions at the level of physics, and for a physicist to do math. The #membrane & the #handle are essential, but sometimes you have to decap the sealed package and inspect and manipulate its internals directly.
#Problemsolving, #improvement and #maintenance all require the ability to move up and down the stack of abstractions to figure out where to stick your probes and stage your interventions."
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/03/rod-logic/
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@eliasulrich@hachyderm.io 2026-07-06 11:32
“This affordance was repeated later on the early web, thanks to the #ViewSource function that came built into every #browser, acting as a velcro tab for the membrane that separated rendered web pages from their underlying instructions. In my early years as a web developer, I copied, pasted, adapted, probed and traced #HTML in ways that would have been instantly recognizable to the younger me, keying in those BASIC programs and ripping apart the commercial software on my computer.”