Recording of today's Future of Coding virtual meetup #3
This one featured a demo of LabView + AI from @Jim Kring, a smalltalk-esq browser for Lisp from Konrad Hinsen, plus a nice discussion about collaboration within the community led by Kartik Agaram.
Here's my chance to comment my own presentation, with something I forgot to say: I'd really love to have something like my Common Lisp inspector for JavaScript, in the browser. Something going beyond the typical element inspector in letting me define custom GUI representations and interaction elements for my code and data. Maybe that something already exists, e.g. as a browser extension. Any ideas?
Kartik Agaram - FWIW: first impressions, while I can still remember them, completely orthogonal to your talk:
a) When I saw your diagram, I immediately thought “this is a Kinopio diagram”. I.E. like brainstorming, flying off in multiple directions. One thing that attracts me to Kinopio is that it lets you elide busy-ness by linking to other diagrams (the “/“ operator) and replacing whole sub-diagrams by a single rectangle (albeit, manually). (kinopio.club)
b) More agency over computers. My first impression is that you were talking about /all/ people. I don’t believe that /all/ people want more agency over their computers - if anything they want more agency over their own problem domains. Programmers want more agency over computers, dentists’ receptionists want more agency over scheduling and patient records.
📝 Kinopio – Thinking Canvas
Create spaces to mindmap, moodboard, research, whiteboard, brainstorm, plan, and take notes
As for agency, I see three categories of people:
- Those who some agency over computers and want more of it (roughly: us here)
- Those for whom computers are tools like many others and who just want more agency in their domain. They often see computers/software as increasingly damaging to their agency.
- Those who have no idea that one can actually have agency over computers and who would profit from it if they knew.
