Heather Mccormick posted a beautiful picture with the legend “Stop imaging the apocalypse; start imaging the revolution”. I’ve been watching @DamiLeeArch. She introduced me to the term “Solarpunk”. Cyberpunk imagines technology creating a dystopian future. I might love the art but it’s not a world I want to live in. I replied “Solarpunk not cyberpunk”.
I write software. Architecture is a term used in computing to describe the structure of the programs. The design reference was called Design Patterns. It’s a collect of common design idioms. It’s modelled on a collection of architectural patterns from the 1950’s.
Many of these design patterns have been obsoleted by improvements in the languages. My main language is C++ and there’s huge difference between the current standard (2023) and when the design bible was published (1995). This is crux of my rant; Biden’s Whitehouse said don’t use C++. The NSA says it’s inherently insecure. This is just wrong. Here’s Bjarne Stroustrup explaining why.
And my life is only bearable (cyberpunk, outdated knowledge, people in authority talking about thing they don’t know, the oncoming apocalypse in climate, war, ecomics, etc) with music. Here’s Aircooled supporting The Jesus and Mary Chain at The Roundhouse, Camden. I bought a ticket for Saturday but I saw they were playing on Friday, so I bought another ticket. I’ll see JAMC twice ‘cos I’ve loved them for 30+ years.