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It's come to my attention that John Bradley, author of the "xv" tool has died. I never knew John, but I used "xv" a LOT in the early days of my career as a graduate student working in computational physics.

In many ways "xv" might have been more pivotal to my early career than even Python.

In this thread, I'm going to offer my tribute to "xv" and say a bit about its role in my 1990s "vibe"-coding project that definitely did NOT involve any AI.

This will probably meander a bit. 1/n?