For anyone looking to kill some time, I threw up a little page about some sound design that I did for the FoC podcast, with a few links to various places on the internet. https://ivanish.ca/wormhole/

Tried this out on an iPad: https://docs.circles.software. Not much programming or different from other visual tools. But it seems making box and wires “gooey” goes a long way for mobile usability.

If anyone wants an invite for Bluesky, DM me (I’ve got a bunch). With its locked open API, there’s a lot more potential for programmability than Twitter. In particular, I’m interested in end-user programming feed algorithms I’m robhaisfield.com there

I would be interested in brainstorming (opinions, discussions, experience, etc.) on low-cost monetization for essays and pamphlets regarding services like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, Leanpub, etc.

If anyone is near Portland, Maine, I think this generative AI game jam will be fun!

hi everyone! my name is pine and i previously worked on vscode and on underlay (a distributed knowledge platform). i do a lot of open source projects on github as well: https://github.com/octref i'm looking for a job in the developer-tooling, tools-for-thoughts or generative-media space. i can work in US but would love to explore living in other countries in EU or Japan. if your company is hiring, would love to chat :p feel free to DM me or email me at hi@matsu.io

For anyone using sveltekit - I recently wrote a little clarifier on what is going on with stores (as compared to how we get to use them in svelte). Though they aren't TECHNICALLY broken, they don't work as expected and leak data .. sooo... (what is that computation theory called where things should work how we expect them to work? ). How to avoid that is there too: https://dev.to/brendanmatkin/safe-sveltekit-stores-for-ssr-5a0h

Not sure if this is allowed here, so please don’t hesitate to let me know if it isn’t! Wanted to share that libro.fm is currently hiring for a senior android dev., I worked here briefly and loved it. I’d be happy to make an introduction or recommendation for anyone interested in the opportunity. From my experience, the team was wicked chill, and down to earth.

If anyone out there is an experienced Scala dev with some patience for newbs, let me know. Just trying to get an old project to compile. TIA.

Does anyone have suggestions for a snapshot history UX for multi-dimensional data (like Excel, but with more dimensions)? It seems that most implementations for Figma, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Office 365 are pretty basic, but maybe that’s all people expect, so it’s not worth the effort to try to be clever. What do others think? I’d be pretty curious for people to suggest products which were able to “double count” the typical “snapshot” UX by thoughtfully pairing it with another need like audit-ability. For example: Procreate has a way to see the timelapse of changes to a piece of art over time. Or, you could use snapshots as a way to tell a story with data, by selecting interesting snapshots to be used as “key frames” in a presentation.

I finally had occasion to try out Obsidian today. Some notes after 5 minutes of use. • The initial experience is a blank screen without bullets. I thought the outliner view was the #1 selling point of such tools? Do people use Obsidian to write free-form text? • I can copy a set of nested bullets from Obsidian to LogSeq and it works great. In the other direction, though, Obsidian loses all the nested structure I copied from LogSeq. Overall the experience has been surprising. The open source clone felt like a more polished onboarding experience than the relatively proprietary and centrally coordinated product. I'm curious if that matches other people's experience.

GDC (Game Developers Conf) is running a Showcase event at the end of June. They've sent me some codes for free passes — DM me if you want one.

Anyone have any idea how system-wide UI affordances for contextual commands work (or might work) in Apple visionOS? They're adapting the WIMP interface metaphor in some sense, but I haven't seen anything like a contextual or system-wide menu for things like copy-paste, undo-redo, etc. Hopefully this won't be a repeat of iOS where we go for years without these essentials.

What are good web based node-based programming environments for implementing simple arithmetic and boolean logic?

anyone wants a bluesky invite?

Yes, please

I also have 2 going, if anyone else needs one

✋ I would love one, if folks are open to sharing

I have two as well. DM me if you want one.

i would like to have a bsky invite too 🙏

I have 2 invites I can offer — DM if you want one

#past-company When the industry switched over from mainframes and minicomputers to personal computers, how big a regression was the performance of a typical PC versus that of a mainframe / mini at the time? (Keeping this question vague because I'm not quite sure how to phrase it. Feel free to interpret it however you like.)

I'm planning to go to Portugal around https://2023.splashcon.org/ (Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2023 Cascais, Portugal) I don't know if I will attend but I will try to meet people there. Anyone wants to join? we can go by train 😄

Is anyone else at https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer23/?

I wrote a blog post reflecting on my journey with my groceries app, the state of the web, and Calm Technology: https://gfor.rest/blog/calm-tools (This is the right channel, yeah?)

I made a poem in celebration of comments. https://elk.zone/universeodon.com/@TodePond/110700164929966414

Just wanted to shout out that #thinking-together has been excellent lately. Y'all are doing a wonderful job bringing deep discussion prompts and exploring the whole space in the replies.

Content warning on language on this one. But it’s a meme that really hits on my FoC sensibilities 🧵

If you're in NY and wanted to work on a FoC company full time, @Tom MacWright and I are hiring at Val Town. We're trying to make programming more fun, composable, and light. I've tried to take many of the ideas I've learned from this community and package them up into a practical product that's VC-fundable. Come join! https://about.val.town/founding-engineer-at-val-town

(Hopefully this question isn’t too far outside of “coding” and into “using”.) I’ve always had an interest in associative data management, but I’ve never found a tool I love for my use case. What I want to be able to do is catalog and visually explore: • Ideas in some area of research • Sources for those ideas: who has presented them • Chains of reasoning: person A argues that because of ideas X and Y, therefore Z is true • Commentary on those ideas: supporting, refuting, adapting General mind-mapping tools don’t feel structured enough, but coding it from scratch has been intimidating. It feels like this must exist and I must just be bad at finding it. Do any of you have a tool you like for this use?