2022-06-28 skipped a few
Channel: dorian taylor
Date: 28/06/2022

I didn't do warmups last week because I was doing a bigger video (that I still need to finish). This week I'm going to be writing my second chapter of Nature of Software (subscribe ($): https://buttondown.email/natureofsoftware/). I also stumbled across a Twitter thread celebrating the architect Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, who appears to exhibit a lot of the Alexandrian properties in his work (https://twitter.com/Furmadamadam/status/1541503291380711425). I wrap up by talking about how Christopher Alexander's contribution is important for both buildings and software, and my appeal to start talking about computers as an ordinary (if idiosyncratic) part of everyday life.

00:00 - didn't do warmups last week
00:36 - gonna write chapter 2 this week
01:13 - alexander makes buildings like we make software
01:47 - hiroyuki wakabayashi is definitely not nostalgic
02:35 - not sure if anybody's tried this yet because google is trash
03:17 - describing alexander's 15 properties/transformations
04:17 - why is LEVELS OF SCALE good, anyway?
05:49 - this process is natural and ordinary
06:10 - we could benefit from demystification
07:07 - software is an ordinary part of life now
08:43 - boomers had the first tvs; genx had the first pcs