A one-sheet on posture toward the people around you The principle, and its known failure Jon Postel wrote it for computers talking to each other: send strictly correct output, accept anything you can reasonably interpret. It let a fragile early internet work despite everyone's software being slightly wrong. Engineers later turned against it. Broken implementations … Continue reading Be Conservative in What You Send, Liberal in What You Receive
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The Room That Can Tell You the Truth
On why making things requires other people, and what kind of people, and how A nine-year-old writes a rap for a rap battle. She's rapping about turtles. Her sister is rapping about dogs. She wants to read her rap to the family but she's embarrassed — they might laugh. Her mom reads both raps aloud … Continue reading The Room That Can Tell You the Truth
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