Mariano Guerra 2025-07-29 15:13:34 Jasmine Otto 2025-07-29 15:37:37 end of a big ol' stumbling block! and local editing with Vite! lovely infrastructure improvements
Jasmine Otto 2025-07-29 15:40:34 more big QoL
And notebooks are now “full bleed”, meaning they extend to the full width of the window rather than being limited to a central column.
Tom Larkworthy 2025-07-30 06:27:53 after 30 mins of playing with it, where I think there are differences between Notebook 2.0 and Lopecode bsky.app/profile/larkworthy.bsky.social/post/3lv5vyemd7c2h
I have also noticed they have hardened the runtime a little so my previous hack for getting the runtime reference doesn't work. So I need to recrack it if I want to migrate to authoring using that tool
Tom Larkworthy 2025-07-31 10:20:46 Both notebook versions hide a reference to the runtime from userspace. To make your own userspace editor and serializer you need meta programming access via the runtime. The runtime is the spreadsheet engine. Lopecode is built on that reference.
I don't think anything was deliberately broken but the front end language semantics have changed which needed some repairs. Still not got everything working but a good chunk is unblocked. There might have been changes to the runtime I can't quite tell yet
github.com/observablehq/notebook-kit/discussions/20
Jasmine Otto 2025-07-31 16:01:48 pipeline synthesis via domain-specific visual programming. obviously they're over-claiming ('generate any stable, isolable molecule') as chemists, but as a PL person this sounds great! if you're a constructivist getting into assembly theory, I think this was written for us
Linking this framework to assembly theory strengthens the definition of a molecule by demanding practical synthesizability and error correction becomes a prerequisite for universality.
bsky.app/profile/leecronin.bsky.social/post/3lrnuxfiyns2c
Jasmine Otto 2025-07-31 16:02:56 https://bsky.app/profile/khinsen.net|@khinsen.net: Just listened to this episode. :test_tube:
Fascinating, impressive... and scary. "Novel entities" is one of the already transgressed planetary boundaries. Lee Cronin proposes to make it a lot easier to design and produce even more novel entities. With venture capital funding. What could possibly go wrong?
Konrad Hinsen 2025-07-31 18:59:37 Assembly theory is definitely worth a look, it's an interesting attempt at describing the complexification of chemistry over the history of our planet, ultimately leading to life.
The authors also over-claim the virtues of assembly theory, but it remains interesting even if you don't buy into "we explain the origins of life".
Denny Vrandečić 2025-08-02 14:58:22 That links to the Gallery of programming UIs, but the link there seems dead (and the Internet Archive is no help): alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=1068 --- does anyone have a copy?
📝 Gallery of programming UIs
I’ve assembled a gallery of notable/interesting user interfaces for programming, as inspiration for the next Subtext. [Google Slides]
