Good morning, Internet!
This morning, I need to test on my Linux machine whether my X11 menu software (written in Go) works well in real conditions. I was developing it yesterday in a Docker container, with VNC, and all the good stuff, but now, it's time to test whether it can replace dmenu on my Linux workstation.
I have some ideas to improve this website.
- Bringing the breadcrumbs I brought to anedcotes pages for all the website.
- Add more anecdotes, and more content about software history. Maybe even a /software-history/timeline, with events that interest me the most.
- maybe more to come...
Scrolling on LinkedIn, I found out about Dosu, a SF startup that does what I was envisioning for my B2B take on Wikistral. I did not act on it, and lost faith in the project, but it might revive my faith in the project: it's probably not that hard to approach CTO, considering I've got tons on them in my LinkedIn connections.
Conclusion of the X11 menu written in Go: Go is definitely not the right language to write such a thing, it'd make way more sense to use a language that is made to really interface well with C, like C++, Zig, ...
Good afternoon Internet.
I started reading some of John McCarthy writings, compiled in "Defending AI Research, A Collection of Essays and Reviews", that I downloaded from Zlib, and converted to EPUB, thanks to Claude Code. There are tons of interesting aspects, about history of AI research, philosophy of science, and political aspects. It is fun to realize that McCarthy is criticising the left for being anti AI (and even anti science), something that is still actual nowadays. It really has a lot in it, much to discuss, that's an interesting read.
During my daily walk, earlier today, I was listening to an episode of the Founders podcast, about the life of Jesus. There were important points in there, and it definitely makes me want to read that book. Obviously, David Senra thinks about how entrepreneurs could learn from the life of Jesus, and actually, a lot of it makes sense. Like "recruiting early allies" (apostles), the need for "faith", ... That's an unusual framing, that most people could find ridiculous, but it actually could be useful for an entrepreneur to study Jesus's life this way.
I definitely need to keep pushing on getting a better historical understanding of computing, Internet, startups, software, ... I need to be able to have a lot of historical background on our craft, ... This could be a real edge.
Maybe I could use LLMs to dig into old, forgotten software, and reveal hidden gems?