Last Week In Code 007

E007… Yaay. That's 7 weeks old. Frikin 49 days.

There's a joy in watching sth grow as you nature it from one line idea to project. Seen that happen in a whole lot of projects I've taken on. (Hard to stick to projects but its been a consistent feeling for those I've stuck with). Recently took time off to build an app I have had in my projects folder for ages (under different names). Built teh complete version.. felt overwhelmed.. then built a real simple does one thing version.. and added onto that to graduallly have what I have now. (getting kinda the same feeling with this site, with compouding knowlege… more on that in a bit) Have heard of the unix philosophy and its one of those things I am reading about now. Its rather been hard to adopt. But I think theres something about the efficiency of this that is Unix philosophy Speaking of wc.

On space between thought to idea

  • I use firefly
  • Now I use a ledger file , the script i mentioned i wrote.
  • The Problem of Transfer

Anyhow, you heard about the problem of transfer? You know the guy that breaks locks at work for a living.. But has door of similar make at home… wc, they don't know how to unlock the door?

Or how about the programmer that uses Git for version control daily for their coding .. but while doing writing work, wonders how they are going to be able to show one version of a post online while they keep one offline (serving both from the same storage point).

If you aint catchin my drift yet, here's another one. Student back in class learns the sum of counting numbers formula.. then back home he is given a task.. "Johny, those 100 chicken in the barn, they all got number tags.. 1 to 100.. i think each will get as many shots as its tag number.. go buy all the shots.." Uses a calculator?

  • A random thought.

Notes to to-be Undergrad CS students.

In the news:

So age verification is coming for wikipedia? https://www.theregister.com/security/2025/08/11/wikipedia-host-loses-challenge-to-online-safety-act-regs/334404

The Kettle

  • Ads are coming to AI

As always, I hope you learnt something. Hope to see you around in e008.