Here's to history: programming through archaeology

HERE’S TO HISTORY: PROGRAMMING THROUGH ARCHAEOLOGY @ELEANORKH @THECONVERSATIONEDU @THECONVERSATIONUS

@eleanorkh G’day! or, χαίρετε!

A very accurate line

@eleanorkh

Suzie Maclean

Zoos Victoria

Natalie Su

@THECONVERSATIONUS

@eleanorkh Modern languages: Hello, how are you? My name is
Eleanor. I would like to go to the zoo please.

@eleanorkh $ irb >> puts "Hello, world!" Hello, world!

@eleanorkh Ancient languages: If some god shall wreck me in
the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suﬀered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of war

Demeter 350BC-330BC British Museum

@eleanorkh history != programming…?

@eleanorkh της κῠβερνάω to steer, to govern

@eleanorkh κῠβερνήτης captain

@eleanorkh κῠβερνήτης kubernetes

Kunsthistorisches Museum Austria

@eleanorkh the whole is greater than the sum of its
part - Metaphysics , Book 8

130 - 150 AD British Museum

κῠβερνήτης kubernetes

κῠβερνήτης kubernetes PROGRAMMING

@eleanorkh 1. Human intention in the archaeological record

@eleanorkh 2. Stratigraphy and context

@eleanorkh 3. Technology

@eleanorkh history! hooray!

@eleanorkh git bisect start

@eleanorkh why?

@eleanorkh commit f522f112d9eed271180b2a8e782e51f09fb7a44d Author: Odysseus Date: Sun Jul 1 22:44:38
2009 +1000 Trickery

@eleanorkh commit fc1f8ca93623b37d5f601c97b34fa6ce94bd9977 Author: Helen of Troy Date: Sun Aug
6 22:44:38 2010 +1000 Woe is me

@eleanorkh our decisions, for better or worse, are preserved

@eleanorkh commit fc1f8ca93623b37d5f601c97b34fa6ce94bd9977 Author: Odysseus Date: Sun Aug 6 22:44:38
2010 +1000 Can’t believe I’m lost again

@eleanorkh What is archaeology?

David Kryzaniak

British Museum

David Kryzaniak

Brian Klug

@eleanorkh archaeology is a study

@eleanorkh of cultural history

@eleanorkh of material culture

@eleanorkh of human interactions

@eleanorkh archaeology is a never-ending detective story

@eleanorkh programming is a never-ending detective story

Çatalhöyük Excavation in South Area

Column Krater British Museum

Carbonised loaf of bread Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici
di Napoli e Pompei

@eleanorkh archaeology is an interpretation

@eleanorkh 1. Human intention in the archaeological record

@eleanorkh individual action and human intention

Ostracon Ancient Agora Museum  Athens

@eleanorkh intention

@eleanorkh purpose

@eleanorkh individuality

Kunsthistorisches Museum Austria

@eleanorkh activities performed for their own sake

@eleanorkh πρᾶξις praxis

@eleanorkh πρᾶξις practice

@eleanorkh πρᾶξις practices

@eleanorkh history lesson

@eleanorkh ἡ πρᾶξις praxis

@eleanorkh πράττω pratto, prasso

@eleanorkh knowledge of the world

@eleanorkh through observation

@eleanorkh through excavation

@eleanorkh interpretation

@eleanorkh interpretation a story

@eleanorkh we write code certain ways

@eleanorkh we write code certain ways why?

@eleanorkh code is interpretation

Duncan Rawlinson

@eleanorkh code forces code

@eleanorkh potential for alternate explanations

@eleanorkh πρᾶξις praxis

@eleanorkh πρᾶξις excavation

@eleanorkh interpretation

@eleanorkh code as cultural history

@eleanorkh our expressions

Ostracon Ancient Agora Museum  Athens

@eleanorkh our  decisions

@eleanorkh 2. Context and stratigraphy

@eleanorkh git log

@eleanorkh git commit — amend

@eleanorkh git rebase -i HEAD~2

@eleanorkh commit fc1f8ca93623b37d5f601c97b34fa6ce94bd99 Author: Odysseus Date: Sun Aug 6 22:44:38
2010 +100 Dead code goes to the grave

@eleanorkh git show e865426

Çatalhöyük Excavation in South Area

@eleanorkh git push -f origin master

@eleanorkh stratigraphy is a sequence

@eleanorkh why events occurred

@eleanorkh how events occurred

@eleanorkh formed and preserved

@eleanorkh relationships through association

@eleanorkh relationships through location

@eleanorkh architecture

@eleanorkh architecture krater fragment

@eleanorkh context

@eleanorkh context association

Archaic Kouros Martí Carandell

Corinthian Aryballos British Museum

@eleanorkh context in the archaeological record

@eleanorkh Where does this belong?

@eleanorkh Where do we belong?

Jessie Dade Figgins

Anton Sharov

@eleanorkh Pleistocene: 2.5mya - 11,700 ya

British Museum American Museum of Natural History

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

@eleanorkh programmers

@eleanorkh archaeologists

@eleanorkh historians

@eleanorkh history, issues, pull requests

@eleanorkh age, use, meaning

@eleanorkh Simple

@eleanorkh Simple Easy

@eleanorkh git checkout master

@eleanorkh 403 forbidden 404 not found

@eleanorkh git bisect start

@eleanorkh git blame

@eleanorkh git checkout edf34d

@eleanorkh commit c5h7d6d4b37d5f601c97b34fa6ce94bd9977 Author: Ron Weasley Date: Monday Jul 2
22:44:38 2009 +1000 Remove CanCan from Draft Controller

@eleanorkh programming is a never-ending detective story

@eleanorkh

@eleanorkh Hello

@eleanorkh Bonjour

@eleanorkh Hallo

@eleanorkh

@eleanorkh git biset

@eleanorkh - timeframe - isolate problem - identify problem

@eleanorkh commit 912999791298e610a2ed069d03fe3906b266315d Author: Percy Weasley Date: Thu Jan 11
13:45:15 2018 Add acceptance spec for LINE Today feed

@eleanorkh - timeframe - isolate problem - identify problem

@eleanorkh Simple

@eleanorkh Simple Easy

@eleanorkh What is the whole story?

British Museum American Museum of Natural History

@eleanorkh commit 912999791298e610a2ed069d03fe3906b266315d Author: Percy Weasley Date: Thu Jan 11
13:45:15 2018 Add acceptance spec for LINE Today feed

@eleanorkh commit f522f112d9eed271180b2a8e782e51f09fb7a44d Author: Odysseus Date: Sun Jul 1 22:44:38
2009 +1000 Trickery

@eleanorkh - short (<72 chars) summary in the imperative

@eleanorkh - ﬁx - add - change

@eleanorkh If applied, this commit will <your subject line here>

@eleanorkh code isn’t always self-evident

@eleanorkh context

@eleanorkh git commit

@eleanorkh 3. τέχνη

@eleanorkh ἡ τέχνη tekne @eleanorkh

@eleanorkh skill with art

@eleanorkh skill with craft

@eleanorkh ὁ λόγος ho logos

@eleanorkh λέγω lego

@eleanorkh human intent and desire of making and creating

@eleanorkh technology has deﬁned us

@eleanorkh we aren’t the sole users of tools

@eleanorkh we depend on technology

@eleanorkh technology for the mundane

@eleanorkh technological changes as adaptions to problems

@eleanorkh population growth

@eleanorkh perceived needs

Antikythera Mechanism National Archaeological Museum, Athens

@eleanorkh technological changes as adaptions to problems

Antikythera Mechanism National Archaeological Museum, Athens

@eleanorkh code

@eleanorkh intentions

@eleanorkh decisions

@eleanorkh commits

@eleanorkh What’s your intention in the archaeological record?

Here's to history: programming through archaeology

Here's to history: programming through archaeology

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