Dan Abramov
Co-creator of Redux and long-time core contributor to the React team; writes about JavaScript and software design at overreacted.io.
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Their wordsI needed to back it up with Lean before laying more bricks on top of existing bricks, and I definitely needed to verify things with Lean before making any novel mathematical claims.
↗How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjectureoverreacted.io 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI could not trust the model to evaluate which results were interesting.
↗How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjectureoverreacted.io 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsSeparating hosting and apps fixes broken incentives in closed and in federated social. Coupling hosting and apps was the original sin, and the fix is simple.
- 5 months earlier
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A person's creations should live somewhere they control, not be owned by the apps used to make them.
Their wordsSince files represent your creations, they should live somewhere that you control.
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Their wordsIt's actually good that different products can disagree about what a post is! Different products, different vibes. We'd want to support that, not to fight it.
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Their wordsThis is why, whenever you narrow a repro, you should also confirm that a positive result ("everything works") is still possible to obtain with the new repro.
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Their wordsI don't know any other method that's so effective after you've run out of theories.
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Their wordsHowever, in theory, whoever operates the PLC registry could deny my requests to update the DID Document, or refuse to serve some information about it.
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Their wordsBut by standardizing how these pieces fit together-putting the user in the authority position, separating identity from hosting, and making data portable-it turns the web into a place where your content belongs to you, not to the apps that display it.
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsDespite the grip of today's social media companies, I believe open social will eventually seem inevitable in retrospect-just like open source does now.
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Their wordsSocial aggregation features like notifications, feeds, and search are non-negotiable in modern social products.
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Their wordsIf you can't leave without losing something important, the platform has no incentives to respect you as a user.