The ‘writing criticism’ curator wrote a review of MfoM where they claimed that the characters were flat but the plot was engaging. I consider this a success, since I was worried about plot (since I don’t ‘get’ it).

Atlas of Endangered Alphabets – Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/

Today in bot food: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/04/british-librarys-collection-of-obscene-writing-goes-online

Viewpoints http://www.vpri.org/writings.php

Transactional memory, immediate-mode structured graphics, serialization, backtracking, and parsing — Write.as https://write.as/s7f1ywj0jh735

When Good Engineers Write Bad Software - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/when-good-engineers-write-bad-software

Update: scans of early RFCs — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/update-scans-of-early-rfcs

An Informal Exploration of Structural Sharing, Proxies, and Copy-on-Write Semantics http://raganwald.com/2019/01/14/structural-sharing-and-copy-on-write.html

Ontology Overrated: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

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RFC-19 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-19

People on twitter weirdly assume that I write all the links I share. Folks on mastodon basically don’t. I don’t know why.

The World’s Writing Systems http://www.worldswritingsystems.org/

Rain 🚱: “#rust iterators are sooo much nicer to write than…” - Cybrespace https://cybre.space/@grainloom/101379206180624438

Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html

Since it’s friday, if I have the energy, after work I’ll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y’know, in case anybody wants to watch me write ‘code’ that’s actually mostly dialogue.

The LaTeX fetish (Or: Don’t write in LaTeX! It’s just for typesetting) – Daniel Allington http://www.danielallington.net/2016/09/the-latex-fetish/

RFC-5 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-5

Write your Own Virtual Machine https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/

RFC-2 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-2

RFC-1 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1

I documented what I’m trying to do with MfoM, so that I can write a proper postmortem later: https://medium.com/@/mfom-pre-postmortem-92683b15ff2c

Email icon https://www.topic.com/cory-doctorow-how-writing-fiction-can-influence-the-future

Writing with the machine https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/writing-with-the-machine/

Folks, journalists don’t even get to write their own headlines. If I get one more person telling me it’s hypocritical to write an article criticizing tracking on a site that has cookies, I’m gonna blow. Purity is shitty praxis: if you want to stop tracking, you need to complain on a site with tracking.

We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/

What to write with? Styli for clay tablets in the ancient Aegean and eastern Mediterranean https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/what-to-write-with-styli-for-clay-tablets/

Command-Line Options10.Configuration”/>http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html

The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.

Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by determining who you don’t owe a debt to – who, in the total scheme of things, has had a net negative effect on your life – writing them a nasty letter, and setting it on fire.

Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by writing apology letters to everyone you have ever wronged.

Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

The Future Will be Technical https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html

My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website) https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/

Bad idea of the day: to combat writer’s block, use automatic writing as a divinatory method to predict what you would have written if you didn’t have writer’s block

I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…

What Is The Morning Writing Effect? - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing

Bad idea of the day: write poems, one a day, each on the back side of a tile, cementing it into place after you write it. your bathroom wall becomes a hidden book. tell no one.

GitHub - ChrisKnott/Algojammer: An experimental code editor for writing algorithms https://github.com/ChrisKnott/Algojammer

Hardware Interrupts | Writing an OS in Rust https://os.phil-opp.com/hardware-interrupts/

Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html

Maybe I should start doing writing exercises. You know, write a pastiche of an M.R. James story, and then one in Gibson’s style, a Stephenson version, a Lovecraft, etc. Fiction is pretty hard.

A Python Script that Writes 800-page Children’s Books – Zach Whalen http://www.zachwhalen.net/posts/a-python-script-that-writes-800-page-childrens-books/

Emic Automata & Thematic Automata | maetl https://maetl.net/notes/storyboard/generative-writing-with-cellular-automata

Computers Reading Computers’ Writing http://zachwhalen.net/pg/pres/elo18/

You’d think that somebody writing for NME would know that ‘Daddy’s Car’ isn’t the first AI-written song. (Even if the earliest example they can think of is from Songsmith & they don’t recognize that Bach was doing generative music.)

Discovery Writing and the so-called Forster Quote | rjheeks https://rjheeks.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/discovery-writing-and-the-so-called-forster-quote/

The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/webzines-90s-online-media/

Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/