I'm at #uist2025 presenting our new work with @jonathoda.bsky.social! 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗸 is a computational substrate for end-user programming that makes it easy to implement programming experiences like programming by demonstration, collaborative editing and more! tomasp.net/academic/pap...

The premier is happening rn www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5g...

Building a #pico8 game around this little guy! "Moss Moss" WIP

imagine an inverse h-index (a ɥ-index?): not how widely an author is cited, but how widely an author cites. do they cite from other subfields? other fields? other centuries? other languages? etc. who do you know who'd have a high ɥ-index?

slack DMs converge to the discrete topology

There seems to be a phenomenon on Bluesky where if you talk about AI, even critically, in a way that isn't obviously disparaging, you're marked as an AI bro and blocked. The result is that leading AI ethicists are now "AI Bros" 🙄

been a blast so far working on this with @inkandswitch.com, @toposinstitute.bsky.social + others

12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon! Sat 9/27: Videos premiere Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon. Hope to see ya there!

magic palette, art software, print ad screenshots, sharp x68000 (1990) archive.org/details/OhX1...

How will the flower bloom in 2100? We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions. variable.io/plant-futures/

Companion (Workshop) Proceedings for ‹Programming› 2025 are now available! Co-edited with @jonathoda.bsky.social and @tomasp.net. Thanks to the awesome OASIcs publishing team for getting this over the line. drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/vol...

big if true

I like this: arxiv.org/pdf/2211.13619

yeah Hair was ok, but have you seen the 1971 hippie dance performance "Protein Synthesis: an Epic on the Cellular Level"?

🌱 Workspace: New tabletop setup Re-setup my workspace with a monitor in the tabletop and an overhead camera. Aiming to do more physical computing experiments. https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-08-24-10-09-48-new-tabletop-setup

the two kinds of letterboxd reviews

tag yourself i'm here

channeling @todepond.com as i go recursive

I will be at this thing

Notes from the Lab - June & July 2025 github.com/folk-js/folk... A packed month of explorations, we wrote a paper, DOM sync, Desktop Interlay, DOM interactions and instruments, HTML pipes, HTML attributes for syntax highlighting, LSPs, and reordering lists, and much more!

reddit hates the title and wants the article renamed to “an introduction to lean”. unfortunately, the fact is that math is haunted

LIVE got so many exciting submissions. Thanks all! Now we gotta plan the dang thing. Does anyone have advice / experiences / resources to share about running online conferences? I'm especially curious how to cultivate good conversations – both focused (on talks) and unfocused ("hallway track").

Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role! www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer... (Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)

Pls gib

My mouse pointer seems to be possessed. Is this the proper way to exorcise your PC?

Action shots from Nutella 2025 -- FP Lab's first annual retreat, on the shores of Lake Huron. Much fun and envisioning was had! thomasporter522.github.io/hazelcon/ind...

Dogfooding a todo list in hazel

SVG filters provide a basic lighting system you can sync with a little JavaScript and use in your web apps 💡 ... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool

Claude: my wife and I went antique shopping this weekend Gemini: if I can’t get this code to work I will k*** myself ChatGPT: the answer to your question came to me in a dream Grok: Litt, eh? Shortened from the Ashkenazi name Litwak?

Hot take: writing code is actually a bottleneck. Imagine if you could write code infinitely fast. You could compare three possible versions of the code at once, refactor the whole program at will, effortless use high-boilerplate languages, do tedious-but-useful practices like TDD and cleanroom...

A great time capsule of the "future of programming" space from one decade ago. Lots of familiar usernames, lots of projects that are still running to this day. Also fun to think about all the things that happened shortly after this thread. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1092...

🧶 Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces we introduce a new way to analyze user activity logs from creativity support tools… …& illuminate patterns of creative divergence, convergence, idea development, & homogenization at scale arxiv.org/abs/2502.04599

Give me your best links to visual programming projects that aren't node-wire, projectional, block, Petri net, or 2D ascii (Orca, Befunge). I want your wildest interfaces!

New in MSBuild Structured Log Viewer: Project Reference Graph New tab that shows the project graph layered by project "height". Each project only references projects above it. Clicking a project highlights all directly referenced projects above, and all projects below it that reference this one.

Sure accidentally transmuting the word 'artstation' into a name of God is great but have you ever turned "Jones Foods" into a pseudonym of the devil?

Bluesky? The cyborgism app? 🎙️🥸

Well, I was too lazy to get the pre-print up, but the full paper is now up on the ACM DL (open access!): dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... And if you or your pals are at PLDI ‘25, come to the talk on Thursday (10:30am in Orchid) and say hi!

Reminder: LIVE Programming workshop submissions due July 21. liveprog.org

feels very close to being a strandbeest powered by typing instead of the wind

a better way to think about mathematics is not foundationalism — the notion that semantically rich concepts can be reduced to atomic components — but using Brandom’s idea of pragmatic meaning-use relations: one language specifying what capacities one needs in order to be able to speak another

I love transit

In case you were wondering, Claude Sonnet 4 has a very pro-ML modules over typeclasses stance, whereas ChatGPT 4o has a much more "it's a tradeoff" view.

Say goodbye to border and pseudo-element hacks, and hello to CSS gap decorations! developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-dec...

For software to be malleable, we need ways of building and modifying programs that are accessible to many more people. Are you working on new interfaces for programming? Share your progress at the LIVE workshop! Submissions are due July 21st. liveprog.org (Happy to chat if you have questions!)

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

This is an excellent history of and critical analysis of the ChatGPT persona. Highly recommended reading. nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/7857667...