Tag: Fictions

Mental Models, Programming Fictions, and Wittgenstein

This is a follow-up essay to my previous one about Empathy and Debuggers, where I confessed to my preference for empathically understanding the code rather than for line-oriented debugging. Here, I would like to expand that slightly mystic notion of empathic understanding with a more exact o...

In real life, not science fiction!

 Zendaya opted for a two-piece from Attico’s S/S 2024 collection, unbuttoning her jacket to her sternum and pairing it with Christian Louboutin pumps, looking as confident as if she’d just fought a battle with alien sandworms and emerged victorious. RB/Bauer-Griffin, Getty Im...