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Future of Coding Weekly 2021/10 Week 2 #99

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πŸ›Έ Clojure Literate Notebook πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Hedy: A gradual programming language πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό Work for WikiMedia or GithubNext

Our Work

πŸ’¬ Sophie Smithburg

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think i'm close to a docker container with everything prepped for symbolic execution of ruby (in a real hacky minimalist way, but, it's a start, yknow)

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🐦 Tweet from @mkvlr via Jack Rusher

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Clerk, an aforementioned Clojure namespace to literate notebook tool we've been working on over at Nextjournal, is now available in beta. Announcement thread on Twitter:

🐦 Martin Kavalar: πŸš€ Just released a very first preview version of Clerk, a local-first notebook built on top of regular Clojure namespaces. 🧡

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marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

Thinking Together

πŸ’¬ Diego Moya

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Do you know of any techniques that combines ML with deductive reasoning, using the first to "learn" about a problem domain and the second to "clean up" inconsistencies and errors in the solutions created "by gut feel" with the former?

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

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🐦 Tweet from @adamtowerz via Andreas S

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I post the whole text here to read: β€œThe modern operating system only implemented 2 metaphors for builders to extend: the file and the application.

What if they also implemented β€œevent”, β€œplace”, β€œperson”, β€œfeed” abstractly: letting tools that the user invites into their life collaboratively extend those core connected metaphors as well?

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marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό Javelin Software via David Brooks

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Is anyone here familiar with Javelin Software ? I'm interested in the idea of "next-gen spreadsheets" and this came up a number of times in my research. I like the idea of periodicity of data.

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

🐦 Tweet from @GitHubNext via Daniel Garcia

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This looks like a cool job

🐦 GitHub Next: Calling all hybrids! The Developer Experience team at @GitHubNext prototypes the future of development. From creative tools, to collaboration, to data and Copilot β€” we build what we imagine! Bring your frontend chops + all your other skills to bear. GitHub Next: Research Engineer (Prototyping)

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Hedy: A gradual programming language via Kartik Agaram

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I somehow missed Hedy until now, an environment that tries to teach programming over multiple levels the way we teach reading or math over multiple levels. Have others seen it or played with it?

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

πŸ’» Polytope Editor via Ivan Reese

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Polytope is a code editor (work in progress!) that enables you to embed domain-specific editors into a traditional text-based code editor. Actually that's only half of the story β€” Polytope doesn't draw a distinction between text-based code editors and domain-specific editors, they are all just editors.

Nice shout out to our community (and many other great references) at the bottom of the page, too.

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

πŸŽ₯ DeepUI Vector - Automated Vector Drawing (Prototype Demo v0.1) via Ivan Reese

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The DeepUI guy is back with a new prototype: Automated Vector Drawing

The tool seems to have a 3-pane workspace. On the right is a live-updating preview of the artwork you create. On the top left is a workspace for drawing vector graphics, with lots of extra widgets and annotations and such for manipulating the graphics you draw. On the bottom left is a node-and-wire editor, where (as far as I can tell) each vector graphic element you create the top left pane gets a corresponding node, exposing some programmatic attributes for that element. There's also a left sidebar with various drawing tools and a list of common functions (measurements, data type conversions, etc). An interesting idea seems to be that the vector graphic you construct in the top left is actually a "function", and you can effectively call other functions inside the definition of a new function by nesting them. This gives you some "step and repeat"-like behaviour as a natural consequence.

Putting on my "visual programming critic" hat for a sec, this looks superficially like Toby Schachman's Cuttle, but with a GUI that seems heavily inspired by 3D / compositing apps like Blender, Houdini, or something from Autodesk. The video has no link to a website, no way to follow the progress of the project. I tracked this guy down on LinkedIn a few years back, and at the time he said he had no plans to keep working on DeepUI stuff, thinking instead that something like Enso was a more promising direction for visual programming. In any event, I'm really glad he's back and made this video, even if nothing else ever comes of it. I went frame-by-frame through parts of this video. There's some interesting thinking on display here.

marianoguerra commented 2 years ago

present-company

πŸ‘” Graph Consultant at Wikimedia Foundation via Denny VrandečiΔ‡

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Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a specialist in Graph databases and/or RDF stores in order to support Wikidata, the largest and most actively edited open Knowledge Graph in the world for a five month consultation contract.

Wikidata had more than 400,000 contributors and data from Wikidata is seen by more than a billion people every month. The SPARQL endpoint contains more than 12 billion triples and answers millions of queries per day. Wikidata is the most edited wiki in the world with 1.5 billion edits. You work in a completely open source environment and can openly share what you are doing. Check out our public dashboards about the query service: WikiData Query Service

We are a non-profit supporting an active global community. And we're having a really big challenge to crack! If this excites you, if you can and want to help Wikipedia - Join us!

And / or spread the word!

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