"Let’s call the category of people between users and programmers 'authors'" "Authors will be using widgets and programmers will be creating them, but the inverse will be true as well — programmers will want to use this ecosystem to share code, and authors will share widgets they’ve modified or composed from smaller pieces." An imaginary transcribed talk from 1990, at the edge of HyperCard's extinction Worth seeing just for the added alternate-universe screenshots https://medium.com/@modernserf/the-origin-of-hypercard-in-the-breakdown-of-the-bicycle-for-the-mind-8d0f3287e561

As the last remaining daily user of CoffeeScript, the idea that a "CoffeeTalk" could hypothetically exist makes me swoon.

Hoo boy, that's one sweet title.

Quote from the article: "And in my darkest moments, I can imagine a 2015 in which everyone is constantly connected to a global network of computers, but the whole system is designed to show us ads and spy on us."

@Kartik Agaram Have you read that book? It's pretty wild

@Kartik Agaram @Eric Gade - Nice to see others who've read it. I always think of it when I see eyes on ancient things! As I recall, it didn't mention Easter Island? If true, very odd.

Have to say that Job's computer as a "bicycle for the mind" is a terrible metaphor

I just read OP. The section on frameworks is particularly powerful stuff.

If a framework allows people to be productive even when they barely understand how to program, then the system works! If some people are content remaining at that level of expertise, that’s their prerogative. And if they outgrow the framework — well, that doesn’t mean that the framework was bad, its just not for them anymore. We don’t need to perpetuate the “rot your brain” canard; no matter how many times you repeat this, Dijkstra’s still gonna think you’re an idiot because you didn’t learn by writing proofs.