Future of Coding Weekly 2020/08 Week 2

marianoguerra commented 4 years ago

Two Minute Week

🎥 Instadeq Grid and Table Charts by Mariano Guerra

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Half demo half two-minute-week, grid and table charts with settings, small examples of conditionals and functions

marianoguerra commented 4 years ago

Our Work

🎥 Geometric Algebra as a tool in technical communication via hamish todd

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Hey folks, so for anyone who has all the time in the world, here's an outline of what I'm trying to accomplish with my current project - I talk about a text editor I plan to create which you can think of as shadertoy, matlab, and a Bret Victor thing smooshed together and focussed on teaching high school students and physics undergrads about a semi-obscure area of maths called Clifford Algebra

📝 Enso Dev Blog — Friday 31st July via Joe Nash

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Latest news from development of Enso (formerly Luna) is out with this week’s devblog: https://medium.com/@enso_org/enso-dev-blog-friday-31st-july-d301900818c1

Highlights this week:

A new documentation viewer, parser and generator lands in the IDE.
Text editing with multiple cursors.
Generating Scala ASTs from Rust.

plus breadcrumbs, modules, launcher CLI UX

🎥 Instadeq New Area Map Chart via Mariano Guerra

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Quick demo of the new Area Map Chart using the Wiki Table Source to get Portugal's populations per district

marianoguerra commented 4 years ago

Content and Conversations

💬 Matei Adriel

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Question for everyone who's making a desktop visual lang: what do you use for rendering and why?

marianoguerra commented 4 years ago

📝 "Studying Programming through Making" at the PL+HCI via Ope

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Slides of the talk from the PL+HCI summer school

🐦 Amy J. Ko: I just gave a talk titled "Studying Programming through Making" at the PL+HCI "Swimmer" School. I've also posted the link on my talks page, where you can find other keynotes and invited talks I've given. http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/talks

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Another awesome talk at #PLHCISwimmer school. Synthesizing Hints Using Code from Peers and Teachers

marianoguerra commented 4 years ago

💬 Mariano Guerra

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How does the future of coding handles missing/mixed data like undefined, null or values that change type over time?

marianoguerra commented 4 years ago

🎥 Jonathan Blow on Deep Work: The Shape of a Problem Doesn't Start Anywhere via Steve Peak

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Some nice thoughts in here

marianoguerra commented 4 years ago

💻 31 Sustaining the Underfunded - Nadia Eghbal via Pine Wu

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Experimenting with podcast. Would love to learn what you think about it

Asking since I converted Ep 31 with my tool, and the community survey reveals a high concentration of podcast-transcript readers.

Endgoal: to have a text format similar to SRT/WebVTT, but allow HTML content. Have a CLI or website to convert audio + text to this interactive app.

I noticed some common shortcomings in podcasts:

can't talk about visual matters
linerality (as you can't easily reference)

I think these limitations exclude certain topics and ways-of-talking. I'm making a podcast myself. Being aware of these shortcomings, I first made this tool/presentation before recording my podcast.

My questions are: