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Greg Wilson
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I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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4d ago
Odrzywołek 2026: "All elementary functions from a single binary operator" https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852 A single 2-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics. I show that a single binary operator, eml(x,y)=exp(x)-ln(y), with the constant 1, generates constants such as e, pi, and i; operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation and the usual transcendental and algebraic functions.
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
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6d ago
Got this out of the blue: "I came across your work on GitHub and wanted to reach out. I acquire private production codebases and the operational artifacts around them—Jira tickets, PRDs, Notion pages, support threads, Figma files, etc. If you have any private repos or internal projects you've moved on from , I'd be interested in buying them. Same goes for any project management history." Presume it's someone trying to build a back story for an impersonation attack—anyone else seeing this?
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Apr 12, 2026
It's very rough, but it won't get better if I leave it sitting in a Git repo - feedback via issues in the repo is very welcome: https://third-bit.com/closure/
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
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Apr 11, 2026
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Apr 08, 2026
Lessons from Disaster Management: https://third-bit.com/2026/04/08/lessons-from-disasters/
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Apr 05, 2026
Heard someone make the argument that LLMs for coding is like doping for athletes: the side effects are unpleasant, but the performance enhancement is real.
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Apr 05, 2026
"AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees" https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/ai-tractor-startup-founders Anyone remember WebVan and Pets.com ?
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Apr 02, 2026
The Carpentries Partnership Program is live! https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/carpentries-partnership-program-is-now-live/ @thecarpentries@hachyderm.io
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 29, 2026
Have any of my education friends read https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1238056, and if so, is it worth reading?
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 28, 2026
An E-Bike for the Mind: https://third-bit.com/2026/03/28/e-bike-for-the-mind/
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 27, 2026
Do any of my software engineering friends have a student who is interested in static and dynamic program analysis and is in need of a project?
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 26, 2026
Classifying Research Software: https://third-bit.com/2026/03/26/classifying-research-software/
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 25, 2026
"No human being has ever fully understood `git rebase --onto`, the man pages read like translated technical Finnish, and the index file format uses a binary encoding scheme with no precedent in civilian version control that closely resembles the update manifest format used in NATO STANAG 4586 compliant systems." https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/25/the-top-10-biggest-conspiracies-in-open-source.html
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 25, 2026
Margaret-Anne Storey: "From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI" https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22106
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 25, 2026
A Modest Proposal: https://third-bit.com/2026/03/25/a-modest-proposal/
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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Mar 21, 2026
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 09, 2026
This is what censorship looks like in practice: content makers cut things *before* being told to because the lines are deliberately vague https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/pixar-chief-lgbtq-plot-cut-elio-not-therapy-pete-docter
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 03, 2026
The Marimo team is looking for a senior software engineer focused on back-end work (https://www.coreweave.com/careers/job?gh_jid=4652254006&board=coreweave) and on a staff engineer focused on infrastructure (https://coreweave.com/careers/job?4624132006&board=weights_and_biases&gh_jid=4624132006) Good work, good people…
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Mar 03, 2026
OH: "There are two hard problems in computer science. Please don't be a third."
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Feb 28, 2026
"The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM" by Jessica Kutz: https://19thnews.org/2026/02/epstein-files-academic-research-women-scientists/
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Feb 27, 2026
@ainmosni "…the defenders of free markets forget that what we really want is free men." - Mark Crawford
View full thread on mastodon.social
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Feb 19, 2026
"We are willing to put in the extra work in upfront design, clear requirements and prioritization etc. for AI but not for our humans - and then we are truly amazed about the big gap in performance." -- Maik Wiesmüller
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Feb 15, 2026
Spirit of the West: "And if Venice is Sinking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tepxOAEBIE #music
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Feb 14, 2026
The Tragically Hip: "38 Years Old" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICHPKx6KJSM #music
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Feb 13, 2026
Bonny Light Horseman: "Comrade Sweetheart" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T34xl05BF8 #music
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Feb 13, 2026
In 1986, John Carroll and colleagues published "The Minimal Manual", which described an approach to user documentation that broke everything down into cross-referenced single-page descriptions of specific skills (including common errors and how to recover from them). Forty years later, we are reinventing their ideas as agent skill files. https://github.com/marimo-team/skills https://dib-lab.github.io/DIBSI-instructor-training/files/papers/carroll-minimal-manual-1987.pdf
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Jan 30, 2026
The IDF now acknowledges that it has killed over 70,000 people in Gaza since October 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/30/israel-military-gaza-death-toll-broadly-accurate
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Jan 27, 2026
Converted a projects from mkdocs to zensical - a bit of fiddling with the config file, but gosh zensical is fast.
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Jan 23, 2026
I had the good fortune to read a draft of this and y'all should be excited.
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Oct 26, 2025
OH: "My resume is a list of things I hope I never have to do again."
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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May 17, 2025
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io : "Stop Building AI Tools Backward" https://hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-building-ai-tools-backwards/
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Apr 22, 2025
@yabellini@fosstodon.org and I are both quoted in this "Nature" article https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01241-6
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Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
Greg Wilson
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
mastodon.social
@gvwilson@mastodon.social
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Nov 18, 2024
New look for @thecarpentries@hachyderm.io website: https://carpentries.org/
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