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Future of Coding Weekly 2024/01 Week 5 #229

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marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

📍 Spatial Computing 🧑‍🏫 Future of Kids Coding

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📝 Structured data. Not too much. Mostly text. via Kartik Agaram

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marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

📍 Spatial Computing with links not apps via Duncan Cragg

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My latest article:

Spatial Computing with links not apps

Freedom from the Metal to the Metaverse

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

Devlog Together

💬 Jason Morris

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This week I paid off some technical debt, and refactored a single 7500-line file into 134 different JavaScript modules. I did this to myself. No one to blame but me. But it's finished.

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

Thinking Together

💬 Mariano Guerra

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Why aren't you using one of these? What's missing in them? is your use case not covered?

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

💬 Jacob Zimmerman

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Just curious for all your thoughts, is being ahead of your time a good thing? I’m thinking of a conversation I had with @Toby Schachman in the Cuttle discord a while back where he mentioned that Cuttle aimed certain details at a status-quo of programming style unlike it’s predecessor Apparatus, I thought that was quite profound. I’m thinking also of Fortran vs Lisp (or perhaps Forth). When is it not worth it to meet people where they are?

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

📍💬 Eli Mellen

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I wanted to bounce 2 terms I've been thinking of off of this group:

I dig visual programming, but think the term is like a little bit of a brain poison because it isn't really descriptive of the goals, and, like, almost all textual programming is inherently visual, too...just...in the way text is.

I think Ivan Reese was the person I first heard float the term "spatial programming," which I dig, but at least for me, it also misses the real value add of what I'm looking for in a "visual" system.

So, the two terms I've been kicking around:

Neither are perfect, and both feel exhaustingly pretentious (a good thing, may haps?) but my intention with both terms is to highlight that these sorts of systems, unlike text-based programming, help make the relationships between different elements (classes, data flow, inheritance, etc.) meaningful using information other than similar names.

Useful? Stupid? Prior art?

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

Content

🎥 The Only Unbreakable Law via Konrad Hinsen

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A nice talk about Conway's law

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

📝 Visualization of Cultural Heritage Collection Data: State of the Art and Future Challenges via Jasmine Otto

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Given recent discussion of what social scientists need from computing (and is it plain-text scripting?), sharing this recent survey of cultural heritage visualization systems (16p). Section 3.4 (Granularity and Interactivity) will be especially interesting; the authors avoid flattening this idea to a 'file system'.

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

💬 Eli Mellen

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Another one of those developer thriving comics from pluralsight’s research folks. I like that this one hits on contest culture, and its relationship to AI. (also, love that the PDF includes accessible text)

📄 Brilliant Blobs.pdf

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

🧑‍🏫🎥 Testing a new programming approach with 11 and 12 year-old children by Agustín R. Martínez via Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin

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Whoa. Similar to Lu Wilson's probabilistic rule-driven VMs,

plus a touch of Orca? (Specifically the way the kid built a timer out of a character pacing back and forth, see around 11:10-14:30)

I particularly love the use of user-drawn icons in lieu of symbols. Naming is hard (and requires literacy).

marianoguerra commented 7 months ago

End User Programming

📝 Myths and Mythconceptions via Stephen De Gabrielle

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Almost finished listening to the marathon podcast on this paper.