https://enchant.games/journal/ Updates from Land of Enchantment Games Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://enchant.games/journal/2026-05-23-its-not-all-about-speed/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2026-05-23-its-not-all-about-speed Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I keep having to remind myself it&39;s not about speed Yes, there&39;s an easy button now, "AI." But what good is it if AI owns my project, and not me? If it takes me longer, but I grok it, then that is extremely important. "You will own nothing and be happy--" who knew at the… https://enchant.games/journal/2026-03-12-love-for-the-game/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2026-03-12-love-for-the-game Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 You don&39;t love programming enough Up to now I have been arguing: The modern programmer does not love software too much; he loves it too little - for he no longer loves the making of it. If you did, you would be up in arms about what is going down right now in software culture. The low quality… https://enchant.games/journal/2026-03-08-on-the-progressive-surrender-of-technical-autonomy/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2026-03-08-on-the-progressive-surrender-of-technical-autonomy Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Software Engineers may be the only "engineers" in the world who have gradually surrendered control over their own tools. The Environment First it was the environment. Companies decided what operating system you ought to use. Your workstation became a company-issued laptop preloaded with… https://enchant.games/journal/2026-03-07-ai-llms-fall-of-the-software-engineer-rise-of-the-software-artisan/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2026-03-07-ai-llms-fall-of-the-software-engineer-rise-of-the-software-artisan Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The modern programmer does not love software too much; he loves it too little - for he no longer loves the making of it. G.K. Chesterton, if he were alive today. Should we begin exploring software engineering alternatives? The question online increasingly seems to be: Should I become a carpenter?… https://enchant.games/journal/2026-03-06-dijkstra-was-right-human-computer-interface-pt-2/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2026-03-06-dijkstra-was-right-human-computer-interface-pt-2 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 In my first essay The Problem of the Human-Computer Interface and Why LLMs are not the Solution I attempt to explain why natural languages are terrible for computer programming. It has now come to my attention, that Dijkstra predicted this debate 50 years ago. in his article, On the foolishness of… https://enchant.games/journal/2026-03-01-the-interface-problem/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2026-03-01-the-interface-problem Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How computer programming actually works The CPU must be spoken to in a language it understands, that is represented in binary. Hence we have executable files, called binaries, that are computer programs compiled down to cpu-native computer language. And so it follows that we use higher level… https://enchant.games/journal/2025-12-26-on-santa-claus-and-answering-the-question-plainly/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2025-12-26-on-santa-claus-and-answering-the-question-plainly Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Answering the Question Plainly In 1897, an eight-year-old girl named Virginia O’Hanlon wrote to a New York newspaper asking whether Santa Claus was real. Some of her friends said no. Her father suggested she write to the paper and ask. Francis P. Church&39;s reply did not beat around the bush,… https://enchant.games/journal/2025-05-05-emacs-hacking-01/ https://enchant.games/?slug=journal&article=2025-05-05-emacs-hacking-01 Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000