2026-09-16 11:11 UTC
i believe strongly that interacting closely with the thing you are making, with tools that you are in direct control of, teaches you about the nature of the work on a deep level by allowing you to inhabit those tools so that you can 'think as them'. through exploration and struggle, you become aware of subtle possibilities that both the tools, and the unfinished and imperfect work, suggest to you, and these will inspire you, and your ideas will be better, and you will make things that are better
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@jk@mastodon.social 2026-09-16 11:25
when i was at university, i became alienated from a lot of the people in my computer science degree because of their outlook. i saw Computer as a way to explore, to inspect, to interact and play with data, to learn, to build and experiment freely. these people instead wanted computer to automate, calculate, and to prove an answer, like 'true' or '3291.03'. no interaction, no human in the loop, no joystick, no screen, no richness of colors or sounds or questions or inspiration or expression