inspiration - Jerome Covington

Jazz improvisation, "licks" and the path of least astonishment

Here is a hidden message in many creative disciplines, which seems to go counter to what we may think our goals of originality mean: "It is better to sound like somebody else than nobody at all." There is much pressure in the creative arts, in which I do

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JavaScript, Bill Evans, and the universal mind

I will always be a musician. And I will always hold the music of jazz pianist Bill Evans dear. Like most great jazz musicians that I love to listen to, not only could he play elegantly, but he could speak eloquently. There was a great session of his playing and

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Creation Myths

The more I work and think about web development, the more I think that the mystical, magical state of starting from zero and creating an innovative language, framework or web app "from scratch" is a well cultivated, but false, myth. Everything starts from something, and the ability to

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Return to Atlantis

A lot of developers my age who grew up in the states probably, like me, grew up with the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books of R.A. Montgomery. As I learned how to program games using BASIC, Mr. Montgomery's special blend of mind-expanding interactive fiction made a priceless