I learned the term “friendcatcher” in 2021. It was internet-minted in 2009 from a HackerNews comment. If you look closely it was first uttered by none other than @patio11’s mom. I have been working on a small repertoire of cocktails which always makes gatherings more fun and very much in the spirit of the word “friendcatcher”. (You know you were just punned right?)| Moontowermeta
Jimmy Wales: [On hard cases of conduct] What about a contributor who’s like super productive in writing in some area but they’re also quite rude and kind of jerky to other people. Maybe they’re just on the borderline of the sort of thing that would get them blocked, they’re basically a negative energy in the space and they’re causing a lot of trouble. That’s the ones that the community really does struggle with. And I think any system would struggle with this because it’s like ...| Moontowermeta
This is a giant work-in-progress. I'll add to it as I revisit posts that were meaningful. The posts are scattered through my files and workspaces.| Moontowermeta
The US is the most prosperous nation on Earth. But it feels unnecessarily unbalanced. ⚖️| Moontowermeta
I’m taking liberties when I say computational thinking is a sub-category of what I’d just call “rigorous thinking”. One of the defining attributes of said rigor is being methodical in your thought process. The code, the argument, the theoretical price, the ruling — they should all be laid out in steps that lend themselves to debugging. From this perspective, good writing is as much a child of rigorous thinking as computation is.| Moontowermeta