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The Cache Flush
by Avdi Grimm
A programmer's audio scrapbook, from Avdi Grimm. Short selected readings from books and papers at the intersection of code and ethics, sociology, psychology, politics, history, and systems thinking.
Episodes
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The Cache Flush Episode 13: The Grammar of Systems
Systems can be simple, complicated, complex, or chaotic… but even that model is too simple, because they can also be all of these at once! Notes:
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The Cache Flush 012: Computer Power and Human Reason
In 1964, Joseph Weizenbaum created the famous "ELIZA" program, with which a human user could hold a simulated "therapy" session. The implications of the human reactions to ELIZA and later research inspired Weizenbaum to write one of the formative cautionary reflections on ethics in artificial...
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The Cache Flush Episode 11: The Closed World
In this episode, selections from Chapter 2 of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Notes Transcript This is the Cache Flush, a programmer’s audio scrapbook. This is episode 11, recorded Sunday, April 30th, 2023. Today I have some selections from chapter…
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The Cache Flush Episode 010: Making Errors, Making Sense, Making Use
A semi-reboot of the show. I'll be reading selections from my "software humanities" library - books and papers at the intersection of code and history, psychology, politics, ethics, ecology, and systems thinking.
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009 Sponsorship Specifications
Booknotes from Domain-Driven Design and Reactive Design Patterns, and some notes on mentorship vs sponsorship.
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008 Reconstituted sophisticated opinions
Thoughts on strong opinions and terms for complexity; some booknotes from Reactive Design Patterns and Domain-Driven Design; notes from Jessica Kerr.
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007 Silver duct tape factories
Booknotes on Domain Driven Design, and conversations with Jessica Kerr about silver bullets and why your own codebase always feels full of holes.
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006 Persistence of Impostor Relationships
Musings on the over-use of the term “impostor syndrome”, what it means to persist an object, and some booknotes on “Understanding Systems”.
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005 Jessica Kerr on the true barriers to change
A conversation I had with Jessica Kerr, who says that when it comes to change, technical debt is not our biggest obstacle.
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004 Kids, Editors, Engineering
Musings on the meaning of software engineering, editor evolution, and balancing parenting with work.
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A programmer's audio scrapbook, from Avdi Grimm. Short selected readings from books and papers at the intersection of code and ethics, sociology, psychology, politics, history, and systems thinking.
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A programmer's audio scrapbook, from Avdi Grimm. Short selected readings from books and papers at the intersection of code and ethics, sociology, psychology, politics, history, and systems thinking.
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