Ivan Reese 2021-10-25 15:00:16 New (nicely illustrated) post from Nick Arner: Some Thoughts on Interfaces
The way we’ve interacted with computers has evolved considerably - from the early days of punch cards fed into a giant, room sized machine to the command line interface, to the Graphical User Interface developed at PARC (and subsequently popularized by Apple, and eventually Microsoft), to multitouch-based smartphones, to emerging computing paradigms like Augmented-Reality, Virtual-Reality, and ubiquitous computing.
Seems like a good summary of the conceptual space of UI design, including stuff like latency.
https://nickarner.com/notes/some-thoughts-on-interfaces-october-24th-2021/
Shubhadeep Roychowdhury 2021-10-25 18:29:56 Andreas S. 2021-10-26 10:09:34
🐦 Andy Matuschak: "Export considered harmful"
Because software rarely operate on "files in folders" anymore, "export" is increasingly the way software exposes data. But usually you don't want a dead snapshot; you want to "use this data elsewhere"—which requires repeatedly exporting & reconciling.
🔗 Twitter conversation started by @andy_matuschak
Chris Knott 2021-10-26 17:13:52 If it's an ad supported service then they are unlikely to provide anything that let's you avoid the ads, like the API you'd actually want. So a clunky Export function is probably the best you can hope for. In the current economic paradigm I think these things might have to be built antagonistically, like a web scraper.
Scott Anderson 2021-10-26 21:15:40 I've spent a lot of time talking about programming in VR on here over the years but not showing too much (which reminds me that I should do more prototyping :)) This demo of a quantum computing programming environment is kind of in the space I'm talking about
https://twitter.com/LuisZanforlin/status/1452720092203134983
🐦 Luís Zanforlin: Implementing two #qubit gates (CNOT) on our #QuantumComputing interface in #VR for my #MIT grant project🌐🧪🔬
Xandor Schiefer 2021-10-29 06:39:37 Konrad Hinsen 2021-10-30 05:58:51 I like the "edge" framing, though I'd prefer calling it something else. "Edge" suggests the end of the universe, but it's really about interfaces between subsystems.
His "platform" concept reminds me of the object capabilities approach, as e.g. implemented in Newspeak.
Mariano Guerra 2021-10-29 14:27:34 Chris Granger 2021-10-29 15:34:29 Yeah, I've been loving his thoughts. He's basically on a parallel path with what we're working on 🙂
