Hello 👋 Future of coding, I hope you are doing well :) So I found one of those interesting HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41131181 I hadn’t heard of 100 rabbits before : https://100r.co/site/about_us.html The comments in the HN are also very interesting. For me they feel very much related to the future of coding. Like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41136056 In this respect, their page for hacking baguettes by sun&sea is my personal favourite https://100r.co/site/solar_cooking_experiment.html 100Rabbits is like the coming true of Grothendieck's 1972 permatech lecture given at CERN* https://github.com/Lapin0t/grothendieck-cern >"I think that agriculture, stockbreeding, decentralized energy production, medicine of a certain kind, very different from the medicine that prevails today, will come to the fore. It's impossible to say which part purely creative joy will play in these new developments. My hope is, it will be a creative development in which there will be no essential difference between conceptual activities and manual physical activities. When people become masters of their own needs to the point where an appreciable part of their creativity remains free---and this will take a time we can't predict, it may be a generation, it may be ten, no one knows---at that point, anyone, not just a certain scientific elite, will be able to devote a significant part of their time to purely creative, purely speculative, purely playful research"

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Well, they would, if not for it being... Slack

@Ivan Reese why do we use Slack anyway? I recently pondered the thought of using a wiki. Which I think would be much better suited to our needs?

This community dates back to 2017. Slack was hype and easy and the community was just a little fun space for Steve Krouse and some friends. It took a long time for the community to settle into its current form, where Slack makes much less sense.

I think there have been polls to change it ? Do you want to make another poll? What do you think should the process of change or transition look like?

Great question. We've been talking about it a fair bit across a few recent threads, like this one. After looking at a bunch of alternatives, the current very, very loose plan is to figure out if we could build our own new thing, sort of like a hybrid of a forum and a chat. A few of us have volunteered to explore this. Realistically, it'll probably not work out, and take a really long time, and there are a lot of hard questions and choices to make. But at the same time, if it does work out, it'll give us plenty of opportunities to experiment in ways Slack never did, which is well aligned with the ethos of the community.

Very interesting. For me also the “history” hostage part is very unfortunate. There are so many great things , thoughts buried here. I maintained some of the stuff in my Zettelkasten. I also would like to have some sort of semantic overlay. Once the data(repository ?)would be available I think I also would like to work on something that works a bit like my Zettelkasten but available to everyone. Maybe Stephan Kreuzer would help me with that.

Yes, making the conversation history fully public, easy to link to, easy to clone, easy to parse — very important.

@curious_reader current solutions for de-hostaging history: https://futureofcoding.org/community#tools In particular, I'm partial to having a local copy of history I can search with my standard OS tools.

@Ivan Reese what tool did you use? Excalidraw? Running that tool locally is quite useful to me these days. I like the keyboard shortcuts.