Hatvani Péter 💻

Month: July 2026

  • A Library You Can Ask

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    P. Hatvani
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    The Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár — MEK, the digital library of the National Széchényi Library — is one of those quietly enormous public goods: thousands upon thousands of Hungarian books, free to anyone. You can browse it, search it, download from it. What you can’t do is ask it anything — point at the whole collection…

  • This is the Softest Software has ever been

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    P. Hatvani
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    Uncle Bob has this punchline: “Software” is a compound word = “soft” (changeable) + “ware” (product). “If it’s hard to change, you have just reinvented Hardware.” Uncle Bob means soft as a virtue, the kind you earn. Code stays changeable because someone had the discipline to keep it that way. Which is where my train…