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writing bits talks projects about May 21, 2014 Computer Positivity Let's face it, we've all been there, your database just decided to split brains, Linux just killed Apache on your web servers because another process was using a bit more memory, your app is broken because the type system of the language you wrote it in has interesting assumptions about what object you just passed to a function and your laptop keeps disconnecting from the Wi-Fi. It's fair to say computers are horrible right? And with all that certainty in mind, we reach for the small phone in our pocket, open an app, type into a text field and hit "Tweet", so that the little message gets send off to thousands of servers, which process it, find and extract data and then make our proclamation available to millions of people all over the world within a second: Computers are terrible. Nothing works. We...