philosophy of information systems (applied) https://aboutmako.makopool.com alt for foodposts: https://bsky.app/profile/makoconstruct-food.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3ltv6guouic2chttps://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1889#discussioncomment-13746502 Passed comment on a potential `$extensions` field for atproto objects. I think it's necessary (though not sufficient) to escape the need for the mutation of lexicon types and actually decentralize the evolution of the protocol.14 Jul 2025 00:54 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltv6guouic2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3ls5u4divns2dMutable globals are good actually as long as you can confine mutations to scopes (but we can't just yet because it's hard to reconcile that with async) https://github.com/makoConstruct/global_scoping22 Jun 2025 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls5u4divns2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lrzbprtyyc2fDiscovered a datastructure for upcastable/downcastable objects. Basically just a sorted array of (Type, k) pairs where k is the pre-order index of each segment/component of the inheritance heirarchy. Given this, upcasts and downcasts run in logarithmic time. https://github.com/makoConstruct/modular_web/blob/main/rust_object_algos/src/lib.rs20 Jun 2025 05:13 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrzbprtyyc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lr4scmjq222hI don't believe in pure functional programming languages, and some pure functional programming languages seem to be coming around to agreeing with me: post: https://hackmd.io/@xZDxp0NgTQefu1QoquLbGg/Hy-4kn0Geg08 Jun 2025 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr4scmjq222hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lqvqpwnhz22f(blog post: https://hackmd.io/@xZDxp0NgTQefu1QoquLbGg/ry3swtkXxg) Privacy-preserving real identity systems are totally possible, and it's disturbing that no one is talking about that given what's currently going on (age verification discourse, llm spam apocalypse, generally languishing democracies)06 Jun 2025 02:05 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqvqpwnhz22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lomle6zr5223Wow, important? imo that most valuable cognitive work is *like language*, or language processing is deeply involved in most work, so I think this isn't just about language learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w07 May 2025 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lomle6zr5223https://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3loc26l3m3k2dTim Sweeny (Unreal engine, Verse (logic programming language for a new web)) essentially advocating for the distributed type system I'm currently working on (that he could not have seen because the reference deserializer/interpreter isn't out yet)03 May 2025 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3loc26l3m3k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3llw7apjk2s2uTaking a week or two to make a timer app with an extreme focus ergonomics (eg, support one-handed use, other things) Galled that flutter/android never established a standard way of getting the screen size in mms,03 Apr 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3llw7apjk2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3ll3jie6oxs2a#obsidian still doesn't fully get trees (see video comparison), which means it's not really good for reprioritizing todolist items (that have nesting), and reprioritizing todolists is a really important activity!24 Mar 2025 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll3jie6oxs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3liy6bewx3k2f"Internet Computer" seems to be the current best in class? internetcomputer.org/how-it-works infinite TPS globally (while any individual actor is 900tps), so it has that crucial but currently very rare quality that it wouldn't just become prohibitively expensive and choke if it saw global adoption. https://internetcomputer.org/how-it-works25 Feb 2025 05:52 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3liy6bewx3k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lgluwjenfk2tIroh's explanation of advanced bloom filters for set reconciliation was great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIN2a-CIvNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B943F4IpLWo Apparently 40x faster than merkle stuff. I can now see why. But I look forward to forgetting why and just using someone else's implementation cause it's a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIN2a-CIvNA&t=331s25 Jan 2025 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgluwjenfk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lfvlmgwwvs2aEvery RPC protocol surface with promise pipelining is essentially a cloud vm for a weird programming language.17 Jan 2025 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfvlmgwwvs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lcp5dmzz2k2tI've noticed a way of representing cyclic structures in content-addressed datastructures. Please talk me out of making it a load-bearing feature of the APC protocol. https://whtwnd.com/makoconstruct.bsky.social/3lcdzw5oqh62t07 Dec 2024 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcp5dmzz2k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lbq33zvenc27Dear neuroscientists: https://whtwnd.com/makoconstruct.bsky.social/3lbpu4cgleu2p24 Nov 2024 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbq33zvenc27https://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lbkqi2r33k23Hey @jimrutt.bsky.social ! I loved Network Wars, but I'm never sure whether to recommend it to people, because it's so addictive. Has there been there evidence of any skill transfer to other tasks? Like any game, it certainly feels like I'm learning something from it, but it's hard to nail it down.22 Nov 2024 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkqi2r33k23https://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lbiupxtunk22Tell me something you think we should be able to do with social media systems that isn't really happening in any of the systems we currently have, and I will struggle to figure out why it isn't happening and then weave a solution into the stuff I'm building.22 Nov 2024 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbiupxtunk22https://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3lapwezcg7c2o@shazow.net Why room-scale VR specifically? :]12 Nov 2024 03:48 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lapwezcg7c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3l64c7ffudr2z@faircompanies.bsky.social Hey, the contact form at faircompanies.com/contact/ is broken, and you also can't be DM'd here. https://faircompanies.com/contact/09 Oct 2024 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3l64c7ffudr2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3l4a5om6w4o26Are graph databases anything more than relational databases that include a table where two of the columns are external ids of the same type? I feel like they *shouldn't be*? Like from what I can gather, "specialist" graph dbs never needed to be a thing,15 Sep 2024 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4a5om6w4o26https://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3l3hsssuxj32v*doing protocol research for the UX demo* *has a bit of a cry about IPLD::dag-cbor only allowing keys to be strings* ... You know what? I don't accept this. If you're going to introduce a special type for binary-encoding CIDs in values, you should also allow that type when CIDs are used as keys,06 Sep 2024 07:17 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3hsssuxj32vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mako.dreamshrine.org/post/3kzq37lgyor2fNever put a book or an article down without skim-reading it. If you're willing to put it down then you're willing to do a quick half-assed reading. The optimal amount of attention to pay to anything that made it to you is never zero.15 Aug 2024 03:18 +0000at://did:plc:2mfp3fiamge4hp6s5xmki7vm/app.bsky.feed.post/3kzq37lgyor2f