One of the biggest problems/design mistakes in JavaScript is that programming on the server and the client are so different. The built-in verbs are the same, date verbs, string verbs, but the data models are completely different. And the modules are different. How did that happen. Why couldn't require work in the client? If I had been in charge, there would have been a rule that if we're implementing something in the client that has already been done in the server, we must do it the same way, unless it really is impossible, and it has to be very impossible. And vice versa of course.#Decades of debugging software help you see patterns other people miss.#
- Two Grateful Dead songs. #
- Mama Tried, written by Merle Haggard, but I like the Grateful Dead version better. #
- And I turned twenty-one in prison doin' life without parole.#
- No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried.#
- Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I denied.#
- That leaves only me to blame 'cause Mama tried.#
- Me and My Uncle, another Dead song that says that uncles can have a lot of influence too. #
- Love my uncle, God rest his soul.#
- Taught me good, Lord, taught me all I know. #
- Taught me so well, that I grabbed that gold. #
- I left his dead ass there by the side of the road, yeah.#
- Seems perhaps we have a little more mercy for mama. 💥#
- When you read something, you're not in touch with the author's emotions, not when they wrote it, and esp not now, long after they wrote it. Emotions are fluid things, and unless you're very careful, it's unlikely that the emotions you are feeling, as you read the piece, are the author's. It would be a remarkable coincidence if they were. They're your feelings.#
- It just happened to me on Twitter, someone thought a tweet of mine was rage. I never feel that when I'm writing. Because writing is different, transcribing thoughts and feelings I had long ago. Writing feels very different. Usually I'm laughing out loud if I'm writing something that I really like. Writing is like riding a roller coaster. Often it's an exercise in frustration, but when you get it right, it's a wonderful feeling, it's a joyful act, paradoxically, even when you're writing about something that is far from joyful. #
- In this case, I was writing an idea I had in the early 90s, and first wrote about in the mid-90s, at much greater length than in the tweet. In all that time, I've continued to hold the belief that we create each other, that we're a single species, not two. #
- Anyway, projection isn't fun, on the receiving end. #
