marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

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marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🛸 Clojure Dart 📑 UIs for Programming Languages 🤔 What Even is Code? 🎴 The Origin of HyperCard

Our Work

Hi 👋, I'm creating a code explorer inspired by Code bubbles. The difference is that bubbles are not draggable, and everything has an automatic layout.

Here is a video with the progress of the first weeks.

You can give it a try to this really early version at minimalistidev2.netlify.app

🎥 Minimalist Dev Demo

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

Thinking Together

💬 xyzzy

🧵 conversation

In many aspects visual programming, hygienic macros, adts from functional programming are already hitting mainstream popularity with things like Unity and Rust becoming so popular. I view blockchain, quantum and AI as storage / db improvements rather than programming improvements fundamentally and they have their place.

I think the next interesting wave of programming is going to be around improving the tools around programming like voice based programming, programming with the help of mobile phones and VR based programming IDEs. Thoughts ?

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

💬 Steve Dekorte

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For your FoC work, which missing frameworks/platforms/features/tools (that are not specific to the project) do you feel would most help you implement your project? (for example, have you had to take any significant detours from working on your project specific code to build such missing pieces?)

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

💬 William Taysom

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Straw poll... As a rule, which is more challenging in the software systems you work on:

🤯 Changing an algorithm. (Example: Need to switch to recursion because nested loops aren't going to cut it anymore.)
😭 Changing the data model. (Example: A user should be able to register more than one email address.)
😮 Some other change is my main source of stress. (Example: It always takes an unreasonable amount futzing to convince the linker to use the updated version of a library.)

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

💬 Personal Dynamic Media

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I've been pondering how to define a metric for how programmable a user's overall environment is. One thought I've had is to add up, for each application used in an average day, the percent of time it is used times the percent of features that can be programmed. Call it something like Overall Average Programmability.

I know this doesn't account for differences in how easy it is to use the programmability of a given app (mailx is much easier to automate than Gmail) or the importance of individual features that can or cannot be automated, or the ease of integrating applications with different built-in scripting languages, but I think this is a relatively well-defined metric that might still contain some meaning.

Does this sound like a meaningful and/or useful concept?

Would you estimate, over the course of your career, that your environment's Overall Average Programmability has trended upwards or downwards?

Any thoughts on the forces that may have impacted the trends?

Personally, I think mine has trended downwards, and I suspect it has something to do with the increasing roles played in my life by mobile apps, web apps, and services that make their money from advertising and want to maximize user engagement rather than productivity.

Thoughts?

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

💬 Gregor

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I vaguely remember seeing a tool for visualizing data flows between systems, e.g. you'd describe a queue with multiple consumers and would describe what e.g. fan-out does and then you can trigger that action, seeing how data travels along the queue vertices to its consumers.

Anyone know what I'm talking about or sth in that direction?

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🐦 Tweet from @conaw via Andreas S

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Do we have a thread about how roamResearch build their mobile strategy on ClojureDart? I mean how cool is that! Clojure and Lisp getting a huge push.

🐦 Conor White-Sullivan: @0x1B We built it in ClojureDart. Or rather, we brought on @cgrand and @BaptisteDupuch to build the ClojureDart compiler so we could build cross platform mobile apps.

Aiming to deploy Android at the same time but 🤞🙏 still many unknowns

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

Content

🗨️ Conversation: The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up / A City is not a Tree via Kartik Agaram

🧵 conversation

I just reread a great old thread of ours

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🌎 User Interfaces for Programming Languages via Christopher Shank

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There are so many resources linked from Cyrus Omar’s course called “User Interfaces for Programming Languages”!

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🎈 The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) via Shubhadeep Roychowdhury

🧵 conversation

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

📅 Newspeak: Live, Modular and Secure Development in the Web Browser via Steve Dekorte

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marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🎥 "What even is code? Building a non-code coding interface" - Katie Bell via Kartik Agaram

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This is a pretty awesome story about a bunch of attempts at a somewhat-visual, more accessible programming language by @Katie Bell

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🎴 The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind via Christopher Galtenberg

🧵 conversation

"Let’s call the category of people between users and programmers 'authors'"

"Authors will be using widgets and programmers will be creating them, but the inverse will be true as well — programmers will want to use this ecosystem to share code, and authors will share widgets they’ve modified or composed from smaller pieces."

An imaginary transcribed talk from 1990, at the edge of HyperCard's extinction

Worth seeing just for the added alternate-universe screenshots

Image from iOS