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We poets walk amongst you on HN also. Our poems aren’t very good, but then our code isn’t either ;)

by shove 2y ago

jvm___ 2y ago
We're bad poets and we know it - our git history shows it.
- layman51 2y ago
  You reminded me of the “Git and GitHub for Poets” tutorial videos that Daniel Shiffman did for his Coding Train YouTube channel.
ubertaco 2y ago
I wrote one once that I tried to also express using bad UML, as a sort of artistic experiment. It was...not great. I still think the work was a decent expression of my emotional state at the time, even if the UML-ified version sucked. (but then, _a lot_ of UML sucks, so....)
- ioblomov 2y ago
  Reminds me of Norvig’s PowerPoint of the Gettysburg address (not strictly poetry, but certainly some of the most poetic prose in English rhetoric)… http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm
zerojames 2y ago
with our eyes wide and bright on the orange site, we write in curiosity, we find delight here: a land of the bit and the byte
greenie_beans 2y ago
do you also do line breaks in your code like you would in a poem? the linter doesn't understand. i broke the line like that for a reason, mainly because it makes it more readable. have never worked with a programmer who understood that.
- samplatt 2y ago
  In chat programs today and all the way back to my early IRC years, I've been putting a space between a ? or ! and the preceding word, if the word is at the end of the line/paragraph. Coffee? Yes, please ! It's probably just a neurodivergent quirk, but it's always felt far more readable and just... right.
- mometsi 2y ago
  I have freed the symbols from your clumsy lines which the linter probably considers in error Indulge me it's more readable neat functions in neat form
- rikroots 2y ago
  Not in Python. Whitespace and lineation can be important in some poems and Python just doesn't have the flexibility. I have experimented with Javascript eval(``) ... but prefer not to talk about it.
  - greenie_beans 2y ago
    python is one of the languages where i do this. it's more using good typographical practices with line breaks, rather than using whitespace. especially with code comments

We poets walk amongst you on HN also. Our poems aren’t very good, but then our code isn’t either ;)

by shove 2y ago

We poets walk amongst you on HN also. Our poems aren’t very good, but then our code isn’t either ;)

jvm___ 2y ago

We're bad poets and we know it - our git history shows it.

layman51 2y ago
You reminded me of the “Git and GitHub for Poets” tutorial videos that Daniel Shiffman did for his Coding Train YouTube channel.

ubertaco 2y ago

I wrote one once that I tried to also express using bad UML, as a sort of artistic experiment. It was...not great. I still think the work was a decent expression of my emotional state at the time, even if the UML-ified version sucked. (but then, _a lot_ of UML sucks, so....)

ioblomov 2y ago
Reminds me of Norvig’s PowerPoint of the Gettysburg address (not strictly poetry, but certainly some of the most poetic prose in English rhetoric)… http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm

zerojames 2y ago

with our eyes wide and bright on the orange site, we write in curiosity, we find delight here: a land of the bit and the byte

greenie_beans 2y ago

do you also do line breaks in your code like you would in a poem? the linter doesn't understand. i broke the line like that for a reason, mainly because it makes it more readable. have never worked with a programmer who understood that.

samplatt 2y ago
In chat programs today and all the way back to my early IRC years, I've been putting a space between a ? or ! and the preceding word, if the word is at the end of the line/paragraph. Coffee? Yes, please ! It's probably just a neurodivergent quirk, but it's always felt far more readable and just... right.
mometsi 2y ago
I have freed the symbols from your clumsy lines which the linter probably considers in error Indulge me it's more readable neat functions in neat form
rikroots 2y ago
Not in Python. Whitespace and lineation can be important in some poems and Python just doesn't have the flexibility. I have experimented with Javascript eval(``) ... but prefer not to talk about it.
- greenie_beans 2y ago
  python is one of the languages where i do this. it's more using good typographical practices with line breaks, rather than using whitespace. especially with code comments