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OurPaint is a new paint program that uses programmable brushes using a visual language. Node-based visual programming/editing environments are quite fascinating to me, as they provide immediate feedback, make structures tangible (as opposed to text), and can be picked up quickly.
🐦 Sébastien Pierre: OurPaint is a new paint program that uses programmable brushes using a visual language. Node-based visual programming/editing environments are quite fascinating to me, as they provide immediate feedback, make structures tangible (as opposed to text), and can be picked up quickly. https://twitter.com/ChengduLittleA/status/1609921080923402241
🐦 @ChengduLittleA@mastodon.art: Our Paint 0.1 is released for Linux! Yay!
Download at http://ChengduLittleA.com/ourpaint
Borderless canvas, nodes brushes, color management, wacom support, and more!
(I have no idea if it runs on your machine, but there's an AppImage if anyone wants to try, otherwise you can compile)
I wonder if any of you will have better luck than me tracking this down: twitter.com/atax1a/status/1610330977108385795 (warning: I’m usually pretty good at googling, and I’ve found nothing)
🐦 alex tax1a - 2020 (2) (copy) 🏳️⚧️🍳: does anyone remember a classic mac programming environment called CAUSE? we remember it called its runtime EFFECT and you could include EFFECT with your code so as to have a "regular app".
as you might imagine, searching this is impossible
but we remember the software, manuals
Hey all if you haven't been following along with Dave Ackley's quest to make artificial life, he's finally done it! The project is incredible. His goal is to construct an entirely new computational stack that is:
The whole thing is a massive inspiration to me and I would have never got into the world of computing without it! Maybe it'll inspire you too.
And this week, he finally produced a self-replicating 'cell'. I found it oddly emotional to see the project get to this milestone! Anyway, happy new year! youtu.be/O8kOkLPwNNw
speaking of which... I think it would be great to have dave on the podcast at some point... take my vote ✋ Ivan Reese 👀
(Tangent — I had actually scheduled an interview with Dave for the show ! But this was in the pandemic turmoil period where I ended up putting the podcast on hiatus because doing interviews was too stressful. So now the show is back in a much more manageable format thanks to Jimmy Miller, but having guests on the show still presents all the same downsides as before, so it remains to be seen what we'll do. It's something I'd like to do once in a while, and Dave would be fantastic , I agree!)
What do y'all make of this: handmade.network ?
I’ve enjoyed following this! IIRC some of this was kicked off by the Handmade Hero streams by Casey.
Not that you asked, but the FoC POV (if I had to guess) is more that we should reinvent programming (esp to support expressive use by more people!). I love the Handmade network ethos, but my understanding is that it’s more about building existing things for programmers (like CLI’s or IDE’s) from scratch, “by hand”, etc
I've followed a bit of Casey's stuff and quite a bit of Jonathan Blow's (author of games Braid and Witness as well as the Jai programming language) stuff who also deeply shares the same ethos of current-state-of-software-is-rubbish-because-of-massive-accidental-complexity-due-to-excessive-abstraction-and-reuse. If you want an introduction to the 'ethos', this should help: youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
Blow is clearly an extremely productive developer, but does thing completely differently from what is the norm in the wider software industry or academia so I would recommend any programmer to take a look to get another perspective on programming.
Loads of good FOC stuff here:
It's a pity I can't read most of the text in this demo when playing the video on my 13" laptop screen. But even without the details, it's very impressive!
Coming from my current Smalltalk-dominated point of view, I recognize the "textual code in-the-small" approach, but with a different structure in-the-large. Whereas a Smalltalk image is a database of code, a Data Rabbit canvas is a graph with code in the nodes and data in the edges.
Makes me wonder: how large is the set of useful large-scale structures for information processing systems? Is it combinations of a small number of primitives, or a large number of non-decomposable structures?
This reminds me (in a very good way) of Casey Muratori's Moustache demo: youtube.com/watch?v=msZa2EzI3zc. I particularly appreciate that it's only 25 minutes.
Konrad Hinsen I'd like to read you expanding on your wondering there, fleshing out the question with some exploration 🙂
Sure... Let me think about it... and start a thread in #thinking-together tomorrow!
Berkeley's Snap! visual programming language goes far beyond the popular ones like Scratch! snap.berkeley.edu
It's got first-class lists and functions, procedures as data, continuations, APL-like hyperblocks / higher-order functions, converters to traditional languages like Javascript, Python, C etc, metaprogramming, object-oriented programming with inheritance/polymorphism, ability to access hardware and the Internet.
How to Get 1.5 TFlops of FP32 Performance on a Single M1 CPU Core - jott.live/markdown/1.5tflop_m1
Really interesting exploration of pattern matching, logic programming, and ink on cavas from Ink and Switch. Personally my favorite of the series so far.
Example application with constraints on color and shape.
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