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Possibly, there had to be a runtime patch:

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In Jer. 22:24—30 a curse is pronounced upon this former king of Judah. There it is predicted that none of his seed should prosper sitting upon David's throne. Had the Lord been the natural son of Joseph, who was descended from Jeconiah, He could never reign in power and righteousness because of the curse. But Christ came through Mary's line, not Joseph's. As the adopted son of Joseph, the curse upon Jeconiah's seed did not affect Him.

-- Scofield NIV, Matthew 1:11, note 2


Some public libraries offer Udemy. Maybe Coursera will be similarly accessible.

Reminds me of a Go-based version of JMeter and Taurus.

As a riff on Parkinson's Law [1], "Book collections eventually expand to fill all available space."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law


Author does not present an alternative, but one seen is based on timestamp, like version 2025.12.23.

Some alternatives:

- Finger to the wind ("this feels like a big change"). - Domain-specific versioning scheme (so Ruff uses [this variant](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/versioning/#version-changes) that seems reasonable to me; it's described as a SemVer variant, but the work to specify how various cases are handled seems very useful to me). - As you say, time stamps. FWIW I don't like that very much, because time is often so weakly correlated with progress / "breakingness," but it has its proponents.


> knows your business... will never happen

Why not?

> new concepts, programming languages, paradigms

We're seeing AI-assisted proofs, drug discovery, and novel materials & methods.

> novelist or scriptwriter

That's interesting, because in some sense the book or screenplay is a "program" to persuade someone to suspend belief, or to finish reading it and "go to" the next step (acquire film rights, update their worldview, etc).


Reminds me of Node.js using CSS queries for package stuff.

Still looking for unconventional uses of Make or Gradle, using its dependency resolution for non-programming tasks.


Is there a working title or some way to follow for updates?

> useful one evening seven winters hence... transient goals in sight

From Antinet (2022), zettelkasten is to publish, not merely to collect facts. Shortform blog posts could anchor parts of a larger outline for a later book.


True, but then I suppose one could view the short form blog posts as those very transient goals this post speaks of.

Is it coming for the branch or the fox?

Something we haven't observed yet are hyperlinks automatically created from a web of documents. This is usually a manual process: which word or words to select, and which specific URL to go to.


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