silly business

I am a programmer from the United States. This website is a collection of my creative works and writing. All opinions expressed here are my own. Find me on LinkedIn and GitHub or decode my GPG key and send me an email. If you're feeling lazy, you can fetch and decode my email address and public key with the following…

Popular posts: 1
Total points: 292
HN comments: 251
Rank: #9,125 personal

Visit silly.business → RSS feedOn Hacker News Mar 2026 – Mar 2026

Software Engineering 1 AI & Machine Learning 1

Most points Most discussed Most cited Newest

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era

2026292 points251 comments Software Engineering details

Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader could read a code base as a narrative, and come away with an understanding of how it works and what it does. Although I have long been intrigued by this idea, and have found uses for it in a couple1 of different…