I think it's also worth pointing out that computer...
# thinking-togethery
yaxu
12/04/2019, 11:21 AMI think it's also worth pointing out that computer programming is latent and implicit. Coding is such a strange thing to do and we aren't actually able to introspect on what we're doing while we do it. If I've learned anything from the psychology of programming field it's that programmers have no idea what they're doing
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jarm
12/04/2019, 11:35 AMThis is why I am so fascinated by Realtalk / Dynamicland. What happens when you make programming extremely understandable and visible?
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yaxu
12/04/2019, 11:38 AMtacitly understandable without having to put it into words?
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jarm
12/04/2019, 11:40 AMIt's seems that programming becomes more material than interface, it has more 'thisness', 'thingness'
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yaxu
12/04/2019, 11:44 AMYes it's good to think with the whole body
yaxu
12/04/2019, 11:45 AMI think it's good to think about novels at this point though. Can good fiction create visceral thinginess though nothing more than abstract text on a page?
yaxu
12/04/2019, 11:46 AMWould sellotaping fur to the cover of a book about a cat make it a more engaging physical experience?
yaxu
12/04/2019, 11:47 AMit's pretty amazing what the mind can conjure from 'plain text'
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Dan Cook
12/06/2019, 2:22 AMI basically agree with the ironically statement, but I'd say that things like source control and "infrastructure as code" are about moving more toward explicitness about what's happening / happened.
Also, I know I'm not the only one exploring the idea of recording and storing edits "as code".
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