Added some filters and shadows to QuickPoint. "We are mere shadows and filters Horatio"

Hey Guys I've been working on a way to code in VR in an effective way. The code is open source and is available here: https://github.com/felipereigosa/kairon, for the full video where I show how it works and build a few things with it, please see here: , let me know if you like it.

Hey folks, I've been working on "Tools for thought" based on GA for a while, and I'm going to start streaming development of my current one on Tuesday at 4pm. Here's the current back catalogue although my next one will be more about coding something new and (hopefully) answering GA audience questions 🙂 here's the link I'll be streaming to https://www.twitch.tv/hamish_todd

Hey folks, I’ve just launched the beta of the side project app I shared a video about a few months ago. I’ve settled on the name Riverbed. It allows you to create mini-apps to track your personal information on cards, including columns that automatically filter your cards and buttons that allow you to configure simple actions on them. It’s maybe an “almost-no-code” system? You can choose actions from a list instead of typing in scripts. Some of the things I’m exploring include: • How many types of app this card-and-column UX is helpful for, • How much we can accomplish in this domain in an “almost-no-code” approach, where instead of a scripting language we have a set of actions to choose from a dropdown, to make it more accessible to non-programmers, and • To what degree a focus on matching the UX of non-user-configurable apps is achievable or the best use of effort It’s free to use and OSS. More info and video here, including ideas for how I might develop it in the future; I would love any input folks in this community would like to provide! https://about.riverbed.app/

Today with @Patrick Dubroy we are officially launching the Early Access of our book WebAssembly from the Ground Up: https://wasmgroundup.com/ We decided to go "digital first" to support features like interactive inspectors, code highlight on hover, REPLs for examples and other ideas from the Explorable Explanation world. The book explores the fundamentals of WebAssembly by building a compiler for a simple programming language step by step using JavaScript and OhmJS We would love to get your feedback!

(I shared a very early version of Magnet when it was just a Mac Desktop app - but now it fully runs on the web) We just shipped a web version of 🧲 Magnet https://magnet.run - an AI coding assistant. The sign ups are growing pretty quickly and there’s a lot of love from the early users. We think you’ll like it too. It’s free to use if you put in your own OpenAI API key, and over time we’ll charge for more advanced features like integrations and access to the latest unreleased models. If you’re using ChatGPT to help with coding tasks, and finding yourself copying and pasting, Magnet is similar, but built specifically for working with code. You can open local code repos, connect GitHub issues, and pick files and issues as context of for the task at hand. Try it at: https://magnet.run https://www.loom.com/share/3c5563abb08c454fabfa51ba8fcce139?sid=685cd391-86d1-49ee-ae7a-8b1dc9e9afc1 There are lots of interesting future of programming explorations we’re thinking about in the context of Magnet, and hoping to write more about it soon. Would love feedback from folks / suggestions on what you would like us to build next!

Some reasons to make WebAssembly from the Ground Up a digital first book: 1. Code highlight on hover 2. Interactive WebAssembly binary module inspector with "hexdump" and outline views 3. Copy code snippets as you go or "Copy up to here" on checkpoints 4. Open checkpoints in Stackblitz, run tests and play with the code 5. An interactive Wasm interpreter with builtin spec instruction reference (GIF in replies, can't attach after creation)

QuickPoint. Adding a video while editing on mobile while thinking about Alan Kay, images, symbols, chickens and eggs.

👋 howdy folks! We just shipped an integration for Linear & Github issues in Magnet (www.magnet.run) our AI coding assistant that is powered by GPT-4. This gives you a way to quickly take an issue, and go end-to-end on getting suggestion for relevant files, having Magnet ask clarifying questions, and having it make suggestions on how to implement the feature across your entire stack, e.g. front-end, backend, and database. https://twitter.com/NicolaeRusan/status/1689428120695390208 Lots of fun explorations as we’ve built this, and we’re going to be diving deeper into some of the research questions that have come up in terms of how to give AI appropriate context on the task at hand

🎥 Here’s a Loom video of me starting from an issue in Linear and getting to a working feature using Magnet if you want to skip the thread above: https://www.loom.com/share/e20772ec32b248ba977bbb9d526c0951?t=1

Hey all 👋 I just published a tutorial on how to use Flyde (https://www.flyde.dev) to build a Discord bot - https://medium.com/@gabrielgrinberg/visual-programming-in-vscode-create-discord-bots-the-easy-way-dcccc6a9528d - an attempt to provide a real-world use-case to visual flow-based programming 🚀 Looking forward to any feedback or comment 🙏 PS: It's more beginners oriented, as that's the direction I'm taking Flyde at the moment, so expect it to be laid simpler than the usual content here 🙃

You can now make any app end-user-programmable -- as long as it's built in LÖVE https://forum.malleable.systems/t/adding-malleability-to-any-love-app/90

Future of Coding • Episode 66 Bonnie Nardi • A Small Matter of Programming 𒂶 https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/066 This community is a big tent. We welcome folks from all backgrounds, and all levels of experience with computers. Heck, on our last episode, we celebrated an article written by someone who is, rounding down, a lawyer! A constant question I ponder is: what's the best way to introduce someone to the world of FoC? If someone is a workaday programmer, or a non-programmer, what can we share with them to help them understand our area of interest? A personal favourite is the New Media Reader, but it's long and dense. An obvious crowd-pleaser is . Bonnie Nardi's A Small Matter of Programming deserves a place on the list, especially if the reader is already an avid programmer who doesn't yet understand the point of end-user programming. They might ask, "Why should typical computer users bother learning to program?" Well, that's the wrong question! Instead, we should start broader. Why do we use computers? What do we use them to do? What happens when they don't do what we want? Who controls what they do? Will this ever change? What change do we want? Nardi challenges us to explore these questions, and gives the reader a gentle but definitive push in a positive direction. Also of note — we've launched a Patreon! If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting it with a small (or not-so-small) monthly contribution. You'll get bonus episodes and a warm feeling in your heart (disclaimer: warm feeling is a metaphor; if you actually feel an increase of body heat please do not discontinue support but do talk to a doctor)

It's now easier to build and run little LÖVE apps for yourself on Android 1. Install LÖVE from the app store (see https://love2d.org) 2. Download MiniIDE.love from https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=94852. I've been contributing to this app and vouch for it. cc @Konrad Hinsen who's been waiting for this 🙂 (MiniIDE has also been tested on iOS without limitations. But I gather LÖVE is quite tortuous to install on iOS, so you're on your own there..)

I’ve been digging into how we might interact with AI, beyond chatbots, and whether we could have NPCs as colleagues... In particular I’ve been writing actual code (ulp) around actual multiplayer apps (ulp) to see what the interactions and issues might be It is slightly ridiculous to imagine AI NPCs as dolphins... but why not, right? We’ve got a lot of language around “companion species” as a metaphor for AI, so let’s jump and see if that works. So here’s a Twitter/X thread of my first sketches: multiplayer cursors that look like other users, but are actually NPCs Big lessons: escaping the chatbot format might let us answer the AI affordance issue (ie how do we know what the AI can do). Here the NPC can proactively tell you. But also apps will need significant re-engineering to present a machine API and NPC runtime Gonna dig in this direction for a couple weeks, so up for chatting with anyone about the intersection of AI/multiplayer/collaboration/etc https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1697261981814985139

Hi all, a project I’ve been helping out with is looking going to be looking for Test Flight users soon - more details here 🙂 https://twitter.com/adammenges/status/1699093455371477343?s=20

This might be of interest to folks here: https://frest.substack.com/p/distributed-relational

I'm building an automatic brand (and theme) design tool. Any comments are welcome 🙂. Current plan is to add signup + payments + basic documentation / export functionality, and then launch it.

I have been trying to create a video demoing some of the work I have been doing for the past 3 years (on the side) and it’s turning out to be a lot harder than I expected … I do have phone anxiety but this isn’t a phone 😳 Anyhow, feedback welcomed. I will be re-recording it. I know it’s way too long and that I am yapping too much …

Latest update from my project. This has finally got me to the point where I can consider deployment as just passing continuations from a build script to a server. The same is true for a client just being a continuation from the server. I think I need a better name for what I'm doing. In this is the video I try and explain it. https://vimeo.com/863287985

at unison-lang.org we're getting ready to open up the ability for users to easily deploy any function from

HttpRequest -> HttpResponse

as a web service. here's a simple example of what one might look like: https://stew.unison-services.cloud/s/dice-roll/

🧬 UI Combinators: express complex UIs by composing a small set of combinators and terminals 🌳 Combinators: Option, Alternatives, List & Record 🍁 Terminals: Int, Float, Bool, ConstantSet (select), Text, Color, Date, Time etc

Folks here might get a kick out of this essay I wrote: https://arbesman.substack.com/p/computation-as-philology

🐢 UI Combinators all the Way Down 🛠️ UI Combinator builder to create & preview components ⏪ Undo history implementation 🎥

The REAMDE.md below tells the story of how I used the user-friendly declarative logic tool I built over the last couple of years to encode a small portion of Canada's Privacy Act, and then had that code used as a tool by a langchain agent. Very interested in anyone's thoughts on both content and form. It's not as easy as it ought to be to talk publicly about what you are doing inside GoC, but evidently documentation for an open source software repository is something of an exception to the usual rule. https://github.com/PHACDataHub/privacy_rac_demo

My plan for a new visual programming language, currently named Fractal bucket

This isn’t as interesting as what most people here are doing but I wrote a blog post about building products with machine learning at their core. I’ve been working on ML focused products for the last 4 years and have learned a lot. Hopefully it may be useful to someone out there 😇 Always happy to chat ML products if anyone’s interested https://www.papercup.com/blog/machine-learning-product-management

The Meaning of Live: From Art Without Audience to Programs Without Users with Julian Rohrhuber and Renate Weiser https://zenodo.org/record/7843567 It includes critique of what we saw as the common approach to 'liveness' in future of coding community. We explain ways in which live debugging is the opposite of live coding.

Yesterday I finished implementing the core functionality for the visual stepper in GRASP (and so I made this rather cheesy demo video):

💬 Graphical Command Interfaces 🐟 Stop asking dead questions Prototype of a conversational UI that uses LLMs to reply to questions in human language with graphical and interactive UI components. 🎥