Luis Tapia

Tapi

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@theo T3 Cloud!

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@theo gstack (yet again)

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@juliboyavx 0x8D0699d7d99CB5F09cb86cc2af6371Df5326734E

tapi

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions.

It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we��d call him a boomer.

Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use optimizing assemblers.

"You never know where it's going to put things”, he said.

Everyone else in the company was moving on to FORTRAN, and they didn’t understand why Mel was so stubborn about using new tools. He *loved* self-modifying code.

“If a program can’t rewrite its own code”, he asked, “what good is it?”

Mel eventually left the company, and other engineers were tasked with understanding what was left.

Mel’s hand-optimized routines always beat the assemblers; but some of it looked absolutely bizarre.

One engineer took ~2 weeks to understand why there were loops with no exit condition…yet the program worked fine.

I won’t spoil all the details, you should really read it, it’s short. But it’s a fantastic piece on “what defines a real programmer?”…which is becoming increasingly relevant in this vibe-coded era.

I strive to understand computers as deeply as Mel! If we aren’t careful, we’re going to lose the “Mels” of this world to time.

That’s part of why I go so deep in my youtube videos. I hope that younger viewers are genuinely fascinated by the inner workings of our machines, instead of handing everything off to higher abstractions.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@jullerino should. it's a fork. will figure out.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@theo @maria_rcks worth it

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

maybe we all suck at grammar and LLMs made it embarrassingly evident

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@dudousxd @jullerino would love the native app to work with wsl. currently i use just the browser for wsl.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

double-down on it.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@midudev midu ya es patrocinador oficial de la velada :)

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

both people who know how to ship AI-written & hand-written code will win, imo. those who do just one but not the other won't.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

value. not money. value.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

🌯

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@theo touch grass

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

maybe the new "learn how to code" is "learn grammar & writing"?

[Patrick Collins @PatrickAlphaC]

Who is doing the thankless job of going to the web2 conferences, the banking conferences where we are hated, and converting them to crypto?

That’s where the alpha is.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@theo htmx? php?

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

Beyond code or tech, marketing (& trust!) is likely a compelling moat accelerator.

[Luis Tapia @tapilew]

@theo T3 OS