New video about my browser for FoC archives (5 minutes): https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-08-15 You can try it out by downloading two files (and installing Qemu): • http://akkartik.name/mu/foc-data-20210814.img.gz • http://akkartik.name/mu/mu-browser-20210815.img.gz Then:

gunzip foc-data-20210814.img.gz
gunzip mu-browser-20210815.img.gz
qemu-system-i386 -m 2G -hda mu-browser-20210815.img -hdb foc-data-20210814.img

Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

I wrote a live repl for imp. https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-live-repl/ Still very much a hacky prototype, but it feels fun already.

Hi all. I've recently met many from this community who have recommended I post here (Shout out to @Breck Yunits and @stevekrouse and @szymon_k). Me: I'm Michael Gummelt, a Stanford alum and former co-founder of Heap Analytics. I've written here about the future of the low-code market. Product: My new company, Plato, is a low-code platform for building internal tools. You can think of it as if Retool and Airtable had a beautiful baby. Unlike Retool, it's built for citizen developers. Unlike Airtable, it integrates with a company's existing databases and APIs. And unlike any product, it innovates primarily through features for Programming by Example. I believe the only way to democratize computing is by letting users think concretely rather than symbolically. Company: Our customers are ops teams at tech-enabled services companies in sectors like financial services, logistics, and healthcare. I just raised a $2M round from SV Angel, the former CTO of Dropbox, the co-founder of Quora, and lots of others. Job: I'm looking for a founding engineer eager to democratize computing and earn a lot of equity. If you or someone you know is interested, hit me up at mgummelt@plato.io and I'll show you a demo!

I took Lingdong's fishdraw generative art source and broke apart the code onto this natto canvas (my spatial live JS project). I think it's an interesting test of whether the environment scales and how the coding experience differs from a traditional editor. I share some detail videos in this thread. Check it out and would love to hear your thoughts!

This is a prototype demo for Compose (new-ish startup): Would love to hear points of confusion, excitement, and other feedback ☺️

Hi Every one, I am working on an interactive programming language named Flourish, which aims to be programmable only in run time. The only available programming style being exploratory programming, I believe it implicitly forces TDD. Even the concept of dependency injection is somewhat inclusive of language design. https://github.com/FlourishLang/flourish1.5 Please give your thoughts.

So I’ve been triggered (in no bad meaning) by the ironic connotations about

growth hackers

notion in @Ivan Reese https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/CEXED56UR/p1632872466023400 post. I’ve (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomascerkasas/, https://github.com/toinbis) been identifying myself professionally as a

growth hacker

for the past 10 years already. Have to say, growth hackers use ‘devs’ (shortening of ‘software developers’) word with same ironic connotations more often than not 🙂 So I have this 4-hours trainings, pretentiously named

how to tell a story via web medium

, prepared that I run for development+marketing teams being brought together in the same room. It is at the same time attempt to introduce

ubiquitous language

(in domain-driven-design (DDD) context) for daily communication in marketing+development teams cooperation. In an attempt to de-mystify some common myths of what

growth hackers(marketing communication specialists)

actually do and how

developers/admins/devopsers/u-name-it

could help them do their work better (or at least stop creating huge roadblocks, such as instroducing react&friends in acquisition funnel websites, to give an example) - I would like to propose to an online webinar for FoC community those above mentioned

how to tell a story via web medium

trainings (free of charge) . Please put ➕ if you’d be interested in joining this webinar. In case at least 4-5 people would express interest, we could start arrange’ing date&time in a thread, including any special topics you’d like to be addressed and included for me to prepare on top of current content.

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)

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: https://twitter.com/mkvlr/status/1446425912321392640

Nodes & Wires & Block Programming for "Real Time" Data Visualization. Screenshots in Thread

Programming by Demonstration Data Manipulation and Visualization The Video Shows the Data Manipulation by Demonstration part

I was a core contributor for many years on RxJava 1 & 2. My largest impact was to identify and pushing Erik Meijer and Ben Christensen to incorporate back pressure in to RxJava 2 which influenced reactive streams and eventually JDK 9+ Flow.

I saw this illustration of a node-wire visual programming language in an App Store "featured app" story. The app looked pretty bad, but this totally unrelated illustration is quietly brilliant. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I decided to "review" this fake-ass programming system. It's full of stuff that (A) is totally fake, (B) would totally work, and (C) is better than any other node-wire programming tool I've ever seen. Here's my review: https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex/blob/main/impressions/app-store-illustration.md

Hello FoC Community, I am part of a team -- including @Daniel Krasner -- that has long been thinking about issues of personal computing, malleability, programming, and authorship. Last year we had funding for a lab and worked on a web-based authoring system we call Simpletalk (you can see a live version of it here). I recently gave about the wider vision and motivations for this work, as well as a short demo of the system. You can read more detail about our motivation in this document. We would like to propose two things to the community here. The first would be a live talk / demo session, and we would like to gauge your interest in attending. Second, we will soon have test accounts for people to make their own Simpletalk stacks and worlds. If you are interested in participating, feel free to DM either of us and we will let you know when it is ready. Any feedback and/or discussion is always welcome. PS - Simpletalk is not a "product" and is still experimental. Use the latest versions of Firefox for the best experience. Thanks!

Hey guys, I don't know if you remember my program MockMechanics? I know it's been a while, I've been working on the code instead of making videos and I was also busy with work, but here's a new video, I show how I recreated that 4 color memory game (Simon) without using any code. I'll try to make machine videos more regularly from now on. So what do you think? Here's a preview:

Hi everyone, we recently updated our website with some new ideas for how we are aiming to explain our programming environment at story.ai We’ve definitely been mostly focused on implementation and technical challenges mostly, but it’s really nice to have something more substantial on our website to talk about our work. 🙂 And here’s a little teaser from a pitch deck we’re currently working on, too!

Recently built a tool that enables climate and community action orgs to sync their public calendars, so people on the ground can get a view of all of the organizing activities happening near them and where to plug-in: https://rebrand.ly/just-start If this sounds useful, feel free to try it out and share! Anybody can post events and calendars directly from the main page, no login or account required. (Most of the calendars/data are US-based right now, so if you're somewhere else, just try searching a large US city.) It's also open source (https://github.com/sbutler-gh/just-start) — collaboration from all backgrounds welcome! There are some big questions to come around permissions, data rights and sovereignty, respectful ways to work with calendar data, and general features/capabilities/vision, and it would be great to have perspective from a number of communities/fields on that. The vision is that this could serve other organizing use cases as well, like coordinating with attendees after an initial meeting, a place for discussions and sharing artifacts (alternative to FB groups), designing leaflets and posters, mapping local organizations and resources, knowledge sharing across networks, opportunities for engagement and civic action, viewing helpful local data, accessing funding for organizing and local initiatives, and more ... If you have any questions, ideas, feedback, wishes, or other thoughts, would love to hear your perspective and collaborate! (In case I don't see a response here, here's a Discord channel for the project)

Hi All! I’ve created a new Domain Specific Language (DSL) for people to express “product definitions” of consumer products (apps+web apps), which can then be “compiled” into full running software, and a platform that actually generates the app builds, generates and hosts the backend and web apps etc. My belief is that it is too hard to build consumer software today. This difficulty is in large part because we build at too low a level of abstraction. I believe we should raise the level of abstraction to the conceptual level for defining most features, and only write custom code for things that can’t be expressed at this high level. With that approach, we can compile the high-level abstraction to native UI for all platforms and make developing polished x-platform software ~1000X+ easier. Would love any thoughts / feedback, and would love to find people interested in this space to collaborate with (and just raised some money to enable that)! https://www.notion.so/Intro-to-Sutro-raising-the-level-of-abstraction-for-programming-by-multiple-orders-of-magnitude-06f2566973714b3298d8f3cf0ad29c66

We open sourced our Clojure computational notebook library, Clerk, today. Here's an example of combining Clerk with my WikiData wrapper, Mundaneum, to interactively ask for some physicists and what they invented/discovered. Not bad.

Hey guys, tiny machine this time. I created a drawing program using only 9 lines of code using MockMechanics. Check out the explanation on youtube:

I can never remember jq's syntax so I wrote a json processor that parses json input onto a stack, and transforms the JSON by chaining simple stack operations together. It feels a lot more natural to me, but maybe I'm too close to the code 🙂 https://github.com/dnmfarrell/jp

Here's the new project I mentioned a few days ago[1]: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva [1] https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1634445846387500

Future of Coding • Episode 53 Scott Anderson • End-user Programming in VR @Scott Anderson has spent the better part of a decade working on end-user programming features for VR and the metaverse. He’s worked on playful creation tools in the indie game Luna, scripting for Oculus Home and Horizon Worlds at Facebook, and a bunch of concepts for novel programming interfaces in virtual reality. Talking to Scott felt a little bit like peeking into what’s coming around the bend for programming. For now, most of us do our programming work on a little 2D rectangle, with a clear split between the world around the computer and the one inside it. That might change — we may find ourselves inside a virtual environment where the code we write and the effects of running it happen in the space around us. We may find ourselves in that space with other people, also doing their own programming. This space might be designed, operated, and owned by a single megacorp with a specific profit motive. Scott takes us through these possibilities — how things are actually shaping up right now and how he feels about where they’re going, having spent so much time exploring this space. • https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/053

https://twitter.com/heartpunkk/status/1457747480301510659 no code shared publicly anywhere yet but i could throw a snapshot up somewhere as soon as folks are interested.

Just joined. There's a lot of interest in spatial computing and Codex enabled code editing. Wanted to share a recent creation that combines both of these in a voice controlled interface in VR:

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Who else is gearing up for Advent of Code? This year I'm planning to do it in Lua, on my https://github.com/akkartik/teliva environment. Here's a 15-minute video of me warming up: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-11-30

🚀 Advent of Future of Code Day 01 is out! BMI Calculator with Flowrunner-canvas Check instructions here: https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-1-bmi-calculator-with/ 🧵 Conversation about the task as comments to this message! Subscribe to the mailing list to avoid missing the announcements or keep an eye on this channel, one message like this every day 🙂

🏗️ Day 2 of Advent of Future of Code: Brutalist Convivial Computing with Teliva Check instructions here: https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-2-brutalist-convivial-computing/ 🧵 Conversation about the task as comments to this message!

Hi, I have built a serverless runtime for observablehq.com called https://webcode.run. This extends Observable's reactive notebooks to the backend. Its unique features are instant deploys, and it can redirect traffic to your browser, so you can do devtool or console.log debugging against production traffic. It's a unique way of sharing code across frontend and backend. My aim is to create a serverless environment that is a pleasure to use as a developer. I am really desperate for feedback, so if you give it a go let know the positives and negatives.