Kiran Subbaraman

co-founder @studeyo.
interests: ux, visualizations,
programming langs

[Lea Verou, PhD @LeaVerou]

A *lot* or work has gone into this, I’m so excited to see it launching! 🚀

Here's the CSS chapter that I led, co-authored, and co-analyzed this year: https://t.co/VA3a4jFZUJ

It's a long read (about 76 pages if printed!), but hopefully you will find it insightful.

[Sophia Gad-Nasr @Astropartigirl]

If you touch two CLEAN blocks of the same metal together in space, they weld!
Atoms in solid metals move a bit. Touch two clean surfaces together, and the atoms can't tell they're in different blocks so they become one group of atoms, ie ONE SOLID.
(Gif: https://t.co/8YZxHWYoZP)

[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram]

*cracks knuckles*

Math major, ex-webdev, now a formal methods consultant. Here's some ways I've used math in my jobs:

Algebra: "This function is associative, so instead of applying it N times we can just compose it with itself N times and call it once."

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Nila, this is a magnificent and terrifying picture of the monster! I love the eyes and the scaly tail and the fact that it looks unlike any creature I’ve seen before! 👏 #TheIckabog

[Kiran Subbaraman @kirsn]

Hello @jk_rowling, my name is Nila, I'm 8 years old. I've drawn a picture of the Ickabog. Please tell me if you like it. XOXO Nila. #TheIckabog

P.S: I like your book very much.

[Karthik S @milliblog]

When I was very young and discovered 'Germaniyin senthaen malarae' (Ullaasa Paravaigal, 1980) for the first time, possibly in the mid-80s/early 90s (I don't remember exactly), I recall loving the pallavi, for its simple, children's rhyme-like quality. Over the years, I have 1/5

[Igal Tabachnik @hmemcpy]

@Arulselvan_Says @BartoszMilewski It's here! I am thrilled to present the OCaml edition of Category Theory for Programmers!

HUGE thanks to @Arulselvan_Says for contributing the snippets, @marcelloseri, @akochkov for reviewing, and, of course, @BartoszMilewski for writing the book!

https://t.co/L2uidjwewf

[Suvrat Kher @rapiduplift]

Natural History in Temple Building Stones.

Thread- Sedimentary depositional environments of Neoproterozoic age (900-800 million yr old) building stones of Aihole, Pattadakal and Badami temples, rock cut caves and sculptures.

#Karnataka

[The Community Library Project @CommunityLibPro]

We'd given ourselves a week to raise money for our newest #FreeLibrary...and we're 3/4ths of the way there!
We are *so* close, so donate NOW: https://t.co/PBPx5uyQRM

When we meet our goal it will ensure that one more oasis of #ReadingIsThinking comes up in a brand new locality.

[Kiran Subbaraman @kirsn]

@RungRage Thanks, good to know.

[Kiran Subbaraman @kirsn]

@RungRage @RungRage, do you have any views to share on TOR? Is it a viable option, similar to a personal VPN?

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart. For example, a study of 43 use cases found a 0% success rate. https://t.co/FTEKKCPAy8
Let's talk about some mistaken assumptions about decentralization that led to the blockchain hype, and what we can learn from them.

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

Much of what’s being sold as "AI" today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work. In a talk at MIT yesterday, I described why this happening, how we can recognize flawed AI claims, and push back. Here are my annotated slides: https://t.co/iCpyFw5urN

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This flip book has been made by paper engineer and artist Matt Shlian, who also makes paper sculptures and videos of his intricate flip books and small paper installations [site: https://t.co/XUQNU2qjPx]

[Juriy Zaytsev 🇺🇦 @kangax]

Good primer on soundness vs. completeness in type systems like Flow and TypeScript and their comparison to Python's MyPy and Ruby's Sorbet

https://t.co/RvYBvKL9Au

Explains why Flow sacrifices convenience while TS sacrifices soundness.

[Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona @jgbarah]

HTTP/3 is being deployed in production for all of us, and that could be important for you and me and the Internet.

(Short) thread ahead

[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram]

Now that I scheduled a bunch of interviews and am making it a Real Thing, I wanna hype y'all on my new project:

What makes software engineering different from 'traditional' kinds of engineering?

Short request: pause and think about that for a few seconds before reading on.

[Dan Luu @danluu]

Using files is fraught with peril

https://t.co/YuGaOWSuUR

[Firefox DevTools @FirefoxDevTools]

In this video, DevTools designer @violasong gives an overview of all 7 of our new CSS tools, plus stories from the design process and a sneak peek at future ideas! https://t.co/k0lOcvF6ib

[Lin Clark @linclark]

Magic, coming soon to WebAssembly…

The same .wasm file running and using high-level types in:

✨ pure WebAssembly
✨ Python
✨ Rust
✨ Node
✨ The web

with no glue code required? 🤯

See how it works ↓

https://t.co/EHxPElDCr8