I’m a big fan of Bret Victor’s writings. Particularly at the start of TW5 his ideas were very influential for me.
I’d also recommend the writing of Steve Witten at https://acko.net/. His writing is more technical, but grounded in unusual perspectives. He’s got a way with words, too. This quote from his latest article hits hard for me:
Every templating language wants to become a programming language
I did like this talk, when I saw it the first time — a long time ago. The presented IDEs (software editors) are nice. … It would be nice if it would be available other than the demos.
What is not shown in the presentation is, how to evaluate the code in real-time. There is a lot of (hidden) software that makes that possible. Especially if the code on the left is “incomplete” or “invalid”.
We can see this with our TW preview area, which occasionally goes “haywire” if procedure calls use invalid parameters. So the “backend” has to be very fault tolerant and specific at the same time to make live editing happen.
IMO an other downside is, that the “backend” also has to be quite use-case specific and probably fails with unknown generic examples. That may be the reason, why this IDEs have not taken over the market by storm. – May be they have, … I just do not know them.
Very interesting.
I particularly like the graphic-audio design—stellar.
The points made about “the” DOM are beyond me.
I assume it doesn’t involve bondage?
What I do understand is that “standardisation” (of HTML, CSS, JS, SVG) is something of a cleft-stick.
Just Roadblock or a MegaTech-Pocket?
Just wondering.
Donning jimjams I enjoyed it as an example of something I couldn’t quite grasp—“All Roads Lead To GitLab or Nowhere”?
I fear real danger
This world ain’t simple
But I’m strong, I know how to get out
And I’ll find my way ‘cause
’Cause it’s love, real simple
And that’s how it works
So won’t you just give it up ‘cause you don’t understand
Big it up but you don’t understand
And it’s really nice, but you don’t understand
So big it up, ‘cause you don’t understand
‘Cause you don’t understand baby
I feel it’s fallin’ down, I know I’ll catch it
You crazy world, crazy world, yeah
I feel real passionate
You feel the sun comes down
I’ll make it shine, yeah
You crazy world, crazy world yeah
I can see your fear ‘cause
This world ain’t simple
But I’m strong, I know how to stay out
And I’ll find my way ‘cause
‘Cause it’s love, it’s love, it’s love, it’s love, it’s loving yeah
So won’t you just give it up
‘Cause you don’t understand
Big it up, but you don’t understand
And it’s really nice, but you don’t understand
So big it up, ‘cause you don’t understand
‘Cause you don’t understand baby
I feel it’s fallin’ down, I know I’ll catch it
You crazy world, crazy world, yeah.
I feel real passionate
You feel the sun comes down,
I’ll make it shine, yeah
You crazy world, crazy world yeah
I feel it’s fallin’ down, I know I’ll catch it
You crazy world, crazy world, yeah.
I feel real passionate
You feel the sun comes down,
I’ll make it shine, yeah
You crazy world, crazy world yeah
Crazy world, crazy world yeah
Crazy world, crazy world yeah
reminds me of some interesting history behind gfx chips
and similar afair ( cant find the link/reff atm ) old parallel ? hw prototype designs
failing because of some contamination in part of manufacturing process
among other factors