Future of Coding Weekly 2021/05 Week 3

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💻 Information Software Builder 👓 3D Spreadsheets 🧠 Philosophy of Programming 🎨 Stop Motion Software

Two Minute Week

🎥 Card Auto Title: Ctrl + Double Click on a Card Title to set Auto Title via Mariano Guerra

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Default titles are set on card creation, since they are empty the title is just the card type.

Once the card is configured it can generate a more descriptive name, setting it manually takes time and the title is almost always a description of the card's configuration.

Auto title will generate the title from the configuration when the user Ctrl + Double Clicks on the card title.

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🎥 Pluto Prototype 2 via Paul Sonnentag

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Here is a quick demo of my prototype Pluto, a tool for building information software.

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💬 Martin Sosic

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Last week at Wasp:

• We published a demo note-taking app called "Thoughts": wasp-thoughts.netlify.app (code: wasp-lang/wasp/examples/thoughts).
• We had an open source contributor, who contributed only once in the past, present us with a 10 page LaTeX proposal (that he has been secretly working on on his own) for a new design of Wasp language!! It has formal grammar definition, implementation suggestions and more! Crazy, I can't remember last time I was so positively shocked 😄! Here is a link to it on github wasp-lang/wasp/issues/109 . Made my week!

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Our Work

💻 Phenakistiscope Animation via forresto

🧵 conversation 💡 Description of Meemoo and GIF in the conversation

A program to turn a still image into a rotating animated GIF, with each frame rotated by n/16 turns, for previewing Phenakistiscope design.

Very niche app, but that's one of the points of Meemoo. I have to remind myself that it's still chugging along after all these years, and useful for these niche problems.

(You have to increment the frame input manually from 0-15, and then press "play" or "make gif" in the "animation" box.)

More about Meemoo:

Other services for learning code (like Code Academy) start with “this is a var.” You complete the lessons, get badges, and maybe get a fundamental concept of programming, but what can you really do with it? Meemoo starts with “this is a stop motion application.” Use it as is, or look under the hood and hack it if you like. I think that this design for hackability feeds curiosity and encourages learning in a more natural way, much closer to how I and many other actually learned coding.

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Thinking Together

💬 Breck Yunits

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Does anyone know of any 3-D spreadsheet projects like this one from Alan Kay in 1984?

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💬 Breck Yunits

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In a new language I am working on instead of writing one word links like this you write links like this🕸http://example.com. [word]🕸[url]. It compiles to an a tag. HTTPS is assumed. Anything wrong with this? Which emoji should I use?

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Content

🔗 Why OpenDoc failed, and then failed 3 more times? via Mariano Guerra

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The plot thickens: Why OpenDoc failed, and then failed 3 more times?

Summary of reasons found around the web and comparing them with other implementations of the same concept:

• ActiveX
• KParts
• Bonobo

And a short mention of Web Components

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📝 LinkBack via Mariano Guerra

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LinkBack is an open source framework for Mac OS X that helps developers integrate content from other applications into their own. A user can paste content from any LinkBack-enabled application into another and reopen that content later for editing with just a double-click. Changes will automatically appear in the original document again when you save.

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🎥 Philosophy of Programming, Simulating the Commodore 64, and More with Tomas Petricek via Mariano Guerra

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📝 From "Habitability and Piecemeal Growth" by Richard Gabriel via Kartik Agaram

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I posit that a truly comprehensible programming environment - one forever and by design devoid of dark corners and mysterious, voodoo-encouraging subtle malfunctions - must obey this rule: the programmer is expected to inhabit the bedrock abstraction level. And thus, the latter must be habitable. http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55 (inline link mine)

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📝 The return of fancy tools via Ivan Reese

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Charming little blog post on complexity and simplicity.

The friction of having to write, to structure thoughts in plain text, to remember the name of the person I need to reference on this page: that is the point. Frictionless note-taking produces notes, but it doesn’t - for me - produce memory.

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🎥 Dark Lang with Paul Biggar via Mariano Guerra

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💬 Janne Aukia

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I’m thinking if it would make sense and be feasible to create a “two-way” editor, where the ground truth would be in code, but you could edit the elements visually, too.

Any examples of:

• Two-way editors, where you could edit the same data in both visual (think Sketch, Blockly, nodes, etc) and code format (JS, Python, custom markup)? Ideally something, where formatting would be preserved when moving between these two domains.
• Papers related to “two-way” transformations, either from a parser point-of-view or on some higher abstraction level (strategies in general, UI:s, etc)?

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