Tomas Petricek 2025-02-04 21:25:57 I do not have a cool video to share - only dry text! 🙂 but I think there is a very interesting "interaction pattern" that comes up in a lot of simple programming systems (at least the ones that I sometimes work on) - so this is an attempt to capture that...
Choose-your-own-adventure calculus: tomasp.net/blog/2025/adventure-calculus
Federico Pereiro 2025-02-05 16:55:07
"The basic motivation for a lot of my recent work has been the fact that programming systems are much more interesting and important than programming languages. A language is always embedded in some system, but the properties of the system matter more than the properties of the language. And while we know very well how to study programming languages, we only know little about how to study programming systems."
I really like this point.
Conrad Godfrey 2025-02-05 15:44:21 I'm getting increasingly more and more into the "app as a home cooked meal" paradigm, and this is me sharing some of that playful approach to coding with a non technical audience.
I hope that part of the future of coding, particularly AI facilitated, is more people able to satisfy their curiosity with code, in a playful way.
I wonder if there is a world where there are lots of programs that are totally ephemeral and just spun up on demand.
youtube.com/shorts/1tQQEyzqbAE?si=dRqizqIJdvrp1zxP
Project itself is at conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain
Konrad Hinsen 2025-02-05 19:34:10 Much of scientific computing is like that. Exploring datasets, or computational models, using one-off code. Computational notebooks were invented for that mode of working. But it's still too much like programming for most people, including most scientists.
Mimi Reyburn 2025-02-07 11:29:05 Love this! I'm curious what features would emerge from the data - you could present them with the visualisation tool you've already made
Mimi Reyburn 2025-02-07 11:32:29 Been down a rabbit hole and can't see that anyone's done it before 👀
