class: center, middle # Outlining a UI for Tremor Mariano Guerra - 🐦 [@warianoguerra](https://twitter.com/warianoguerra) --- # About - Tremor User -- - [Future of Coding](https://futureofcoding.org/) -- - [Instadeq](https://instadeq.com/) -- - [GlooData](https://gloodata.com/) --- class: center, middle # Disclaimer --- # UI? What For? - Monitoring - Troubleshooting - Developing --- class: center, middle # Community, Resources, Skills and Collaboration --- class: center, middle  --- Convivial tools give each user the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision -- Convivial tools encourage users to be actively engaged and to generate creative extensions to the artifacts given to them -- For Example Emacs --- The goal of making tools modifiable by the user does not imply transferring the responsibility of good tool design to the user -- Convivial tools will remove from the maintainers the impossible task of anticipating all possible uses of a tool and all People’s needs -- Most systems belong to one of the extremes of the spectrum of conviviality --- # General purpose programming languages -- - Powerful -- - But hard to learn -- - Often too far away from the conceptual structure of the problem -- - Takes too long to get a task done or a problem solved --- class: center, middle # Beware the Turing tar-pit # in which everything is possible # but nothing of interest is easy --- # Turn-key systems -- - Easy to use -- - No special training required -- - Can't be modified by the user --- class: center, middle # Beware the over-specialized system # where operations are easy # but little of interest is possible --- class: center, middle # Properties of a Live System From liveprog.org --- # Live Live programming systems give the programmer immediate feedback on the output of a program as it is being edited -- Replacing the edit-compile-debug cycle with a fluid programming experience --- # Structure “Structure-aware” programming environments understand and preserve that structure -- Allow operations at the level of the structure, rather than at the level of raw text --- # Tangible In the traditional view of programs, execution takes place behind the scenes, and leaves little record of what happened -- We are interested in programming systems that make execution transparent, tangible and explorable --- # Concrete People find it easier to start with concrete examples and generalise afterwards --- background-image: url(design-emergence.webp) --- background-image: url(long-tail.webp) ??? https://rhizomerd.substack.com/p/when-to-design-for-emergence --- # Monitoring (System Level) - Tremor in Tremor --- # Troubleshooting - Erlang's Observer - eBPF/dtrace-style dynamic probes --- background-image: url(observer-remote.png) --- # Developing - REPL: libtremor or Transient Pipelines - Record Sample Traces - eBPF/dtrace-style probes --- class: center, middle # Standing on The Shoulders of Giants Headless UI / Tool Server --- class: center, middle # Glamorous Toolkit ## Moldable Development in SmallTalk gtoolkit.com --- background-image: url(lepiter-jenkins.png) --- class: center, middle # Livebook ## Interactive & collaborative code notebooks in Elixir livebook.dev --- background-image: url(livebook.png) --- class: center, middle # Nushell ## A new type of shell nushell.sh --- background-image: url(ls-example.png) --- background-image: url(fetch-example.png) --- # Low Code / No Code - Node and Wire [enso.org](https://enso.org/) - Block Editor [scratch.mit.edu](https://scratch.mit.edu/) - Structured Editor [darklang.com](https://darklang.com/) & [hazel.org](https://hazel.org/) - Or ... --- class: center, middle # Thanks Mariano Guerra - 🐦 [@warianoguerra](https://twitter.com/warianoguerra) --- - [Tools for Conviviality](https://ia801707.us.archive.org/29/items/illich-conviviality/Illich_Conviviality.pdf) - [Constrained Design Processes: Steps Towards Convivial Computing](https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/54846379.pdf) - [When to Design for Emergence](rhizomerd.substack.com/p/when-to-design-for-emergence) - gtoolkit.com - livebook.dev - nushell.sh - futureofcoding.org - instadeq.com - gloodata.com