A Situated Programming Manifesto [Note: the print-friendly zine-style packaging of this text can be found at http://senters.info/situated-programming/] PREFACE In the folklore of computing, the turn of phrase “bicycle for the mind”¹ characterizes the aims of intelligence amplification (IA) efforts by way of reference to the well-established scientific fact that bicycles come…

A sizable group of engineers including myself over at Funding Circle (a Clojure and Clojurescript shop, we’re hiring!) have been gathering every couple of weeks over lunch to discuss a paper that one of us has decided to present to the group. Yesterday, the paper we discussed was Temporal Higher-Order…

Two competing theories of the fundamental nature of system organization underly this contentious debate in computing — The early history of computers was both a story of mathematical and electrical engineering achievements, and because of this, early there emerged two distinct but interacting cultures of computing. …