Geert Roumen 2025-04-25 09:13:03 Hey all,
I've built a plugin for Figma that allows designers to do more with data visualisation, inspired by the 'Drawing Dynamic Visualisations' but than building on top of the already existing experience and knowledge of designers in Figma. It is using the Figma API to adjust instances of components to represent types of data.
I made two versions for now, one that is build with Monaco to allow the designers to use text to couple data from JSON into a Figma Frame (which was originally a tool I needed myself) and one that is having UI where users can couple data to properties of the elements (which I'm happy to get feedback on this concept; and if there is cool examples in this space let me know).
If you want to read more on the process or want to check it out; see the Medium Article: medium.com/@geert.roumen/figmata-a76bf9008806
Ivan Reese 2025-04-27 04:41:22 Future of Coding • Episode 76
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing
With special guest: Felienne Hermans
Hey, everyone? We've had this community for, what, like, 8 years now? We've shared a lot of great links, had lots of discussions. Surely most all of us know the name Turing, know about the Turing test. Heck, those Hollywood tastemakers put "Eggs" Benedict Cumberbatch in a movie called The Imitation Game, and it did numbers ! Turing is top-tier pop culture for our field.
So… why the hell doesn't anyone ever say, "This paper is proper messed. It's very very very very bad." Because, now that I've read this paper, I'm cursed! If anyone mentions Turing near me, I won't be able to resist the screaming. This lil Alan of all time has taken on an entirely new texture in my life. And if you don't know what you're in for, well, I cannot wait to welcome you into this new baffled, corrupted awareness.
Now, I should say it was truly an honour to have Felienne Hermans, author of one of our all-time favourite papers, A Case for Feminism In Programming Language Design, join us. This episode format — a guest who discusses a work with us, but not their own work — is something Jimmy has been encouraging us to try for a while now, and I think it turned out fabulously. And we couldn't have asked for a better first guest — or a worse first work. Enjoy!
Personal Dynamic Media 2025-04-27 14:47:23 I have heard it said that when people are impressed by a pig dancing, they are not impressed by how well it dances. They are impressed that it is dancing at all.
Similarly, I have not heard this paper praised for its depth, rigor, or comprehensiveness. It is usually praised for the fact that he was able to think about these ideas at all given the extreme limitations of the computers that were functioning at the time.
The discussion of rules, and the fact that there must be rules for interpreting them, reminds me of the excellent discussion in Formalization in Program Development (1982) by Peter Naur.
Peter Naur was also skeptical of Turing's thinking on AI. See Thinking and Turing's Test (1986).
Ivan Reese 2025-04-27 20:26:41 If you just can't get enough of the FoC podcast (whatever the hell it is), there's a just-released episode you can lis-
No, no, not the Turing one, silly bean, that came out like 16 hours ago. Old news.
There's a just -released bonus episode where Jimmy and Ivan (whoever the hell they are) talk about… the Turing episode. And Blue Prince. And end with a C02 joke. How's that for theme and variation.
Give us $5, enjoy.
Ivan Reese 2025-04-28 00:46:49 Yeah, Lu turned into a ghost halfway through the Turing ep, which is why their closing thoughts appear at the very beginning.
Ivan Reese 2025-04-28 00:47:40 And as for the bonus ep, Lu couldn't make it today for that. (And I won't be on the next one, most likely.)
Ivan Reese 2025-04-28 00:48:46 Scheduling is one of the hard problems of (the "of all time" joke is getting worn out).
