[esperent]

The source code is much more interesting than some Twitter bro's hot take.

"We took a wrong turn w/ software."

... apparently.

Save your energy and check out the repo instead.

I don't totally blame the guy though. If you want to play the stupid Twitter game, you have to add a trite but provocative hot take to every post you make, lest your writings languish in obscurity. The only way to win is not to play, truly.

[defrost]

Takes me back .. once upon a time I was an admin on old OG Freenode + #C + #lisp and recall when that was floated to take potshots at and use as a beta test crowd.

The first non reddit team submissions were some very dry comp sci papers and tech manuals .. the cats came not long after.

[optbuild]

He is not a Twitter bro though. He has developed software extensively. He is a PL researcher, a professor at BrownU, now working in computing education.

[esperent]

No doubt in real life he's a smart guy. I don't dispute that. It proves my point even more - when on Twitter, even the smartest people get reduced to playing the dumb hot take games.

[wiseowise]

That’s the point.