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title: Telephone Boards
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published: 2019-05-23
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theres a lot of weirdos in this world, me included.
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for some reason people think its, well, weird to be a weirdo, and they might be right.
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but its something thats pretty useful, and heres why.
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## prog soykaf
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anyone whos actually reading this is probably no stranger to programming, and therefore knows about the
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***hundreds of thousands of millions of different ways to program***
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concept space is infinite, and programming is unbridled choice of abstraction, given human readable form (unless you program in APL)
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any, single, thing, that you can program, you can translate into another form and use that instead, you can repeat this as much as you want until you have an ever-moving lovecraftian blob of code.
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and thats the beauty of programming.
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## minds eye
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whatevers in your minds eye dictates how you do it.
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you think about how this function works, and you say to the soul thats hearing your thoughts "its a bit like a phone board, like the old timey ones with the patch leads" and all of a sudden the entire programs architecture is telephone patch lead inspired.
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we come up with all these random equivilencies that six months from now youll look at and think
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> le grill? what the hell is a le grill?
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and thats the beauty, thats the charm and character and poetic tism that we should be celebrating in programming.
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i want to look at a program like you would an art piece, like you would an arthouse movie, and think
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> i wonder what was going through their head in order to influence this
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i want to redo older programs in different "styles" just to see how they would differ.
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i want to find the weirdest way i can do something, just in case we learn something from it
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~~i want it to be socially acceptable to use cool anime profile pictures on linkedin~~
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and most importantly...
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`i just want my code to work :wq`
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