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chapters/00. Coding Contingencies.md

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ These contingencies are situated in contexts.
 Programming then is not just sharing code, but sharing context.
 It's providing a point of view and a perspective to look at the world, before attempting to get some grip onto it with a script.
 
+### Benefits
+
 Using the simulation as a writing machine we can articulate these CC with some benefits:
 
 -   **Suspension of judgment**
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ Using the simulation as a writing machine we can articulate these CC with some b
     By design, the simulation articulates software as a mean to orientate, as well as being oriented by, these trajectories.  
     How does certain programming languages facilitate certain ways of thinking, and totally block some others?
 
+### Stages
+
 The simulation is structured as a series of stages:
 
 1. **Requirements**
@@ -210,45 +214,44 @@ Notes:
 
 -   Discrete Temporality
 
-    1.  Temporality could also be a way to explore events of the past
+    1.  Temporality could also be a way to explore events of the past  
         not every simulation must be set in the present
 
-        ie: Ulman account on childish developers culture (Close to the machine, Life in code)
+        ie: Ulman account on childish developers culture (Close to the machine, Life in code)  
         ie: Richard Gabriel timeline for example (Pattern of software)
 
-    2.  Temporality could also be non uniform!
+    2.  Temporality could also be non uniform!  
         ie: updating using commits in a version control system, gradually fading away when a project stops being maintained
 
 -   Suspension of Judgement
 
-    1.  exploration of margins
-        uncommon or absurd setup
-        why are they absurd?
+    1.  exploration of margins  
+        uncommon or absurd setup  
+        why are they absurd?  
         what is the norm?
 
-    2.  proxy exploration
-        exploring thing we dont understand
+    2.  proxy exploration  
+        exploring thing we dont understand  
         software as unknown?
 
         ie: esolangs
 
-    3.  a way to investigate and build on disproportion of means:
-        ie: contemporary infrastracture to code a TODOs app
+    3.  a way to investigate and build on disproportion of means:  
+        ie: contemporary infrastracture to code a TODOs app  
         ie: quest for frugality in permacomputing projects
 
--   Partiality
+-   Partiality  
     that could also be read as multiplicity
 
     1.  Focus on the same actor in different contexts:
 
-        ie redstone circuits
-        used to develop a virtual minecraft into minecraft itself
-        but also cited by hito steyerl refering to the overflowing of internet into real life,
-        as well as the sinking of real life into internet (steyerl)
+        ie redstone circuits  
+        used to develop a virtual minecraft into minecraft itself  
+        but also cited by hito steyerl refering to the overflowing of internet into real life (and the other way around)  
         but also expanded by modders to build different red stone dialects, forking the original one
 
-        ie reclaimed technology
-        tech deployed for military purposes recontextualized for medical uses
+        ie reclaimed technology  
+        tech deployed for military purposes recontextualized for medical uses  
         (find exact references maybe in ways of being) (bridle)
 
 -   Orientation
@@ -257,12 +260,12 @@ Notes:
 
 1.  zoom out to outline trends
 
-    ie coding language hype
-    how languages get popular and then forgotten
+    ie coding language hype  
+    how languages get popular and then forgotten  
     trending on yt, threads on twitter, conferences, investors! sponsor! etc.
 
-    less about single characters
-    more about their surroundings
+    less about single characters  
+    more about their surroundings  
     online communities!
 
 -   When things are vivid enough go on