Dan Cook 2020-07-19 22:52:26
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Future of Coding History
In this update, I share.. some books I've been reading, to help me knock down a few barriers in my ongoing development of Hest. My current focus is on representing and rendering objects in space, so that includes things like: coordinate systems, affine transformations, cameras and perspective/ortho projection, vertex and fragment shaders on the GPU… and then carefully abstracting all of this so that the artist using Hest will have the right degree of control, and can (for instance) have objects that encode their graphics in various formats (eg: HTML, SVG, glTF) which all coexist in the same space, efficiently.
3blue1browm is great. I now somehow have a spacial understanding of quaternions ... I think
It is the end of my first "full time" week, and it is really cool (yet a bit weird for now) to have the "future of programming" as the main thing to think about. So some video watching, some chat, some reading, etc. And, some archeology on an old project with a bit of coding to refresh tiny parts and try new things.
It is what I then called zed, an editor highly inspired by PureData and Max/MSP but to mix visual programming with text programming for the web platform (and, sorry, no audio for now). The podcast episode with Miller Puckette (the father of PureData and Max/MSP) two month ago made me want to make a TMW video on this zed project, in echo of the discussions following the podcast (and didn't have time then): https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1589265827352600
So here is a quick (2 minutes is really short...) presentation of this old project of mine which I will kept some ideas for my future work: https://archive.org/details/ogadaki_foc_tmw_1
Yes, I wanted to do that as an exercice to see how far a tool can be used to explain things even present itself. And that's why I have tried to do the same with Scratch for my second video. It was very fun and insightful to do so.
Hi, I am working on a flow-based-programming editor and this is an update of some interactive debugging features that I am working on which help me to find bugs, fix peformance and memory leaks but also to understand some math formulas and algorithms better. https://youtu.be/ivzEnInAzt4
It's looking really cool Maikel van de Lisdonk!
Is the project open source?
Well, I am using open platforms to develop big parts of it but I am not yet communicating that openly. There's a few reasons: I need to write proper documentation and examples to make it useful and haven't got the time yet, also I still want to change some parts of it and don't want people/projects to dependent on it already. And furthermore I probably need some marketing around it to reach people. And then there's the business part I am thinking of (can I make a business out of my project so should I open source it at all). What are the thoughts here about open sourcing a project such as mine?
A small update on the live coding tool. This shows an experiment I tried with generation of a musical pattern, in a similar way to Extempore.
in many places you keep a reference to the thing and ask it to stop or have a general function that stops everything, how does it work here?
Yeah, both. I don't have it yet, but I was planning to add a way to stop all notes, and possibly individual synthesizers. In terms of pattern, what I've seen is that each pattern has a name, and can be individually stopped/started. I don't show it in the vid, but you can make different named patterns and play different synths at the same time.
In extempore you disable a pattern by using a different operator, I copied that by adding a ! after the pat command.
In the video I stop/start stuff because I haven't yet added the code to have the pattern wait for the next cycle before updating itself. I think I'll need to keep the last pattern around until beat 0 comes around and swap in the updated copy.
I will refresh my memory on Tidal Cycles, and have a look at FoxDot/Ixi lang to see what they do too.
Today's demo is a half-baked snapshot of what a spreadsheet for trees might look like:
https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2min-2020-07-25
Lately I'm most excited by two ideas:
"Show all the data," as Pane puts it (http://joshuahhh.com/projects/pane)
Embodied instruction pointer, as championed by https://github.com/batman-nair/IRCIS and @nicolas decoster's https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C0120A3L30R/p1594669872107700
This demo kinda engages with the first. I'm still noodling on how to whether there's a clean way to work in the second.
It reminds me of mind-mapping software or the Gingko app: https://gingkoapp.com/
awesome! i really like all these prototypes of like... alternate history of desktop applications. one thing that was a little confusing is that you’re always affecting the objects to the right of your highlighted box, so it took me a second to understand the “create a child” command. i think @Ionuț G. Stan ‘s ginkgo suggestion has an interface that’s slightly easier to understand in terms of what’s changing—i think the cursor moves to children when you create a child
I like the idea of creating an horizontal hierarchy. And that it fills all the space (compared to mindmap nodes).
And I also like that prototyping with text force you to go to essential things!
Kartik Agaram - If saving the instruction pointer includes saving the execution state at that point as well, then I think you're talking about continuations. There are multiple ways those can be modeled.
The options I'm aware of are:
if we’re talking continuations i’m going to insert my compulsive plug for concatenative programming: a continuation is just the state of the stack plus the rest of the tokens in the program. and you could absolutely implement it with a tree instead of a stack