Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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some major abstraction for a six-year-old

This was one of my first programs—it was something like K equals grab the next char. Then I said if K equals “a”, print “a”; if K is “b”, print “b”. I pretty much did every letter, number, and some punctuation. Then at one point I was like, “Wait, I could just say, 'Print the variable!'” and I repl…

—p.51 Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming 2. Brad Fitzpatrick (49) by Peter Seibel
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getting something on the screen

Zawinski: Yeah. Maybe there'd be a vague description of the division between library and front end. But probably not. If I was working alone I wouldn't bother with that because that part is just kind of obvious to me. And then the first thing I would do with something like that is either start at t…

—p.27 1. Jamie Zawinski (1) by Peter Seibel
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you don't have a job anymore project/panopticon

Zawinski: I know it's kind of a cliché but it comes back to worse is better. If you spend the time to build the perfect framework that's going to do what you want and that's going to carry you from release 1.0 through release 5.0 and everything's going to be great; well guess what: release 1.0 is g…

—p.22 1. Jamie Zawinski (1) by Peter Seibel
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you don't have a job anymore project/panopticon

Zawinski: I know it's kind of a cliché but it comes back to worse is better. If you spend the time to build the perfect framework that's going to do what you want and that's going to carry you from release 1.0 through release 5.0 and everything's going to be great; well guess what: release 1.0 is g…

—p.22 1. Jamie Zawinski (1) by Peter Seibel
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