Irresponsible journalism.
PGP.
- charlie: the basic metaphor for pgp that i like is
- charlie: imagine a safe with two keys
- ashley: i'm imagining it
- ashley: in my mind's eye
- charlie: one key you give to everybody, but they can only put things into the safe
- charlie: and another key you keep yourself that lets you open the safe and take things out
- ashley: OH
- ashley: dude why has noone ever just SAID that to me before
- ashley: in passing, on the street perhaps
This is why it’s important to do an image search for ‘Frasier’ every now and again.
Charlie Hoey: The Tumblr: Programming Moments
Looking through some code, listening to Jackie Mittoo, realizing I just spent a good 20 minutes getting a lot done entirely inside my head. Just clicking around, reminding myself of where things are, reading some docs, sipping my coffee, making decisions. Untangling a knot.
I try not to forget that everyday we are building machines with our minds, little repeatable electron storms. Keyboards convert our ideas into tiny etchings of magnetic information on a hard drive, that when played back through an electronic brain, breathe and react to stimulus. Monitors magnify that process. Isn’t crazy to think about it that way? A terminal window full of code files is just a microscope for your hard drive. You’re writing things that move a little arm around that makes tiny electromagnetic dots on it. All these things are happening all day long. We’re instructing a robotic stylus how to etch a whirring platinum disc just so.
