Carson Kahn 2022-04-25 21:58:51 Some amazing engineers that @Ryan Atallah, @Robin Stewart, and I sponsor on GitHub for their important contributions to our field (i.e. visual programming, low-math optimization, thought-as-code, etc):
âť“Looking for recs: Who else on GitHub should we know about?
Carson Kahn 2022-04-25 22:59:14 (P.S. Apologies if this isn’t the right channel for this post — let us know where would be better!)
Ivan Reese 2022-04-25 23:36:01 Nah, let's have a discussion about this!
What's the thinking behind routing the links through your own website? Is it just that you want to track how many clicks each of them get?
Carson Kahn 2022-04-25 23:41:12 Ivan Reese Nothing that nefarious or coordinated: I just pasted from our social media ask with the same content—which does automatically use our link shortener for that purpose—and didn’t update the URLs. This invites two questions: (1) Should I/we manually edit/resolve URLs in that kind of situation? (2) If the post/ask/link is already on a social media account somewhere, (a) does it make more sense to share the original link instead and/or (b) does the fact that it was a company’s social media account disqualify from this Slack (for risking being implicitly promotional)?
Jack Rusher 2022-04-26 07:31:50 I've gone 4/5ths of the way to setting up a Github sponsor thingy, but have questions about how potential sponsor organizations see the whole thing. Could you talk about that a bit, @Carson Kahn?
Vijay Chakravarthy 2022-04-27 00:01:30 Ivan Reese 2022-04-27 03:30:05 [moved from top level, original posts by @Vijay Chakravarthy]
^ Slack indexing as a service
I guess it collides with the business model for Slack so it will be interesting to see where this goes..
Ivan Reese 2022-04-27 03:30:48 Yeah, this looks interesting. Thanks for flagging it! (Also had someone reach out to me via DMs with this link. You all rock!)
Ivan Reese 2022-04-27 03:51:25 I would likely only want to do this if we could pay the dev and have it run on our own domain (if not self-hosted, which would be even more preferable).
Ivan Reese 2022-04-27 03:51:42 But I've entered my name into the (surely quite long) queue of people who are interested. So we'll see what comes of this.
Ben Kirwin 2022-04-30 03:53:36 Ben Kirwin 2022-04-30 03:57:53 and to be clear, it's not implemented in itself or anything - it's a knuth-style weave and tangle literate program setup, using C and some other things
Tom Larkworthy 2022-04-30 06:23:22 I recently discovered reactflow which is a react component for node and wire interfaces (!) Are there any others, I have been hunting for a while https://reactflow.dev/
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2022-04-30 15:32:14 I am building something that is comparable I think. The visual editor component that I use in the visual webassembly compiler which I am building is generic. I use it myself for other implementations as well. But it is still in an experimental stage unfortunately. React-flow is much more mature I think and has a broader focus. At least thats my impression
nicolas decoster 2022-05-01 10:10:17 Looks nice! I would like to find similar tools in a framework agnostic way.
Christopher Shank 2022-04-30 15:24:33 “Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects” by @Maggie Appleton
Honestly a really important reframing of the bias to computation we attach to the phrase “Tool for Thought”!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uhvFGPUE0
Jamie Brandon 2022-05-01 07:03:46 All the talks are up now at hytradboi.com (click on the talk title).
Mariano Guerra 2022-05-01 20:18:16 An Immersive Environment for Embodied Code
The increasing sophistication and availability of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) technologies wield the potential to transform how we teach and learn computational concepts and coding. This project develops a platform for creative coding in virtual and augmented reality. The Embodied Coding Environment (ECE) is a flow-based visual coding system designed to increase physical engagement with programming and lower the barrier to entry for novice programmers. It is conceptualized as a merged digital/physical workspace where spatial representation of code, the visual outputs of the code, and user interactions and edit histories are co-located in a virtual 3D space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxNalVZSkU
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2022/program/content/72166
Ivan Lugo 2022-05-02 05:27:19 Hey there! This project is fantastic, and if you’re in any way affiliated with the team part of this, I’d love to get in contact with them. There are a number of ideas expressed here I’d have a great deal of excitement in discussing.
