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Future of Coding Weekly 2024/06 Week 3 #252

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šŸŽ„ Snappets: Procedural Animation for children (in VR!) šŸ§® iPadOS "math notes" šŸ’” Some possible goals for the future of software

Two Minute Week

šŸ’¬ Marek Rogalski

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Things are moving again in the right direction šŸ™‚ This week two new objects got finished - the Timeline and the Key Presser. Just one more and the MVP will be complete ^^

šŸŽ„ Video

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Our Work

šŸŽ„ HypoTalk: Let's put JavaScript back in the event handlers via Mariano Guerra

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A demo of HypoTalk, a live environment to develop and compose UIs with the least amount of logic possible.

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šŸŽ„ Snappets: Procedural Animation for children (in VR!) via Hamish Todd

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Hey folks, a video of the mathematical animation program I've been working on!

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šŸ“ You Are A Coder (zine) by enderverse via ender

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ā€œEnd usersā€ are always already programming. I made a (digital) zine about this.

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Devlog Together

šŸ’¬ Oleksandr Kryvonos

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very small update to my new project (name selection pending)

šŸŽ„ Demo

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Thinking Together

šŸ’¬ Oleksandr Kryvonos

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A spreadsheet with the FoC projects

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šŸ’¬ ender

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I am currently thinking about working on one or more of these ideas:

I will probably converge on a visual programming language with a spreadsheet GUI that compiles to WebAssembly. Any resources for intuition about compilers, spreadsheets, or DSLs that help me understand these topics would much appreciate.

(think: x explained visually, explorable explanations)

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šŸ’”šŸ’¬ Kartik Agaram

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Some possible goals for the future of software

After some šŸ’¬ #linking-together@2024-06-06 discussions, I spent some time searching the archives of this community for the word 'manifesto', then skimming the manifestos I found in search of their goals, phrased as problems they saw in the world. Then I clustered them by these problems. Here's what I ended up with, possible problems we have seen in the past:

If the problem you're chasing doesn't quite fit in any of these buckets, please share it in a similar format. (One sentence, not describing a solution.) If it does fit one or more of these buckets, please mention them. (Alternative wordings are also appreciated, but for me the primary goal here is to cluster ourselves.)

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šŸ’¬ Don Abrams

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we keep telling computers how to work instead of what they should do

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Content

šŸ˜ Explorable explanations for great good via Kartik Agaram

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šŸ§® iPadOS "math notes" brings some spreadsheet/Calca mechanics to handwriting via Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin

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Oh, and they even added Bret Victor style variable "scrubbing".

(Desktop also got builtin Math Notes, minus handwriting, briefly flashed 51:57 ā€” looks very much like Calca.io / Soulver / NoteCalc etc.?)

So, are we "Magic Ink" yet? (I'm not so much thinking of Bret Victor's essay as Ink&Switch's experiments like inkandswitch.com/inkbase, CrossCut & Untangle ...)

On one hand nothing revolutionary, spreadsheets had much more power for decades.

And yet a solid chunk of useful functionality is starting to move into taken-for-granted "this is just how futuristic paper naturally works" territory šŸ‘.

I expect long term it might make such "what-if" explorations accessibleĀ¹ to more people, and more importantly prepare people for more complex interactions on top?

Ā¹ well, once/IF it waters down to lower-end hardware. Good-enough stylus tech remains expensive enough to be niche, not evenly distributed šŸ˜ž

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šŸ’¬ Alex McLean

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I always thought field was well ahead of its time. Prefigured a lot of Bret Victor's demos and future of coding work that followed in 'real world' use.. Happy to see it is still active. Has anyone used it?

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šŸ“ arcprize.org via Nilesh Trivedi

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This is an AGI benchmark where LLMs currently perform 34%. A prize has been announced for the first team to reach 85% performance: arcprize.org

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Present Company

šŸ’¬ Iacob Nasca

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anyone around here working in a R&D department ? I need some pointers. Thanks!