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advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing.
"Live Programming in Hostile Territory", a paper by me and
@chrisshank.com
, just got accepted to LIVEPROG!
folkjs.org/live-2025/
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Live Programming in Hostile Territory
Live programming research gravitates towards the creation of isolated environments whose success is measured by domination: achieving adoption by displacing rather than integrating with existing tools...
https://folkjs.org/live-2025/
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3 months ago
Really enjoyed "Live Programming in Hostile Territory" by
@chrisshank.com
and
@orionreed.com
:
folkjs.org/live-2025/
They are doing some great stuff with
@folkjs.org
, y'all should check it out.
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please claude don't spoil the em dash, it's the best dash, I want my em dash! ā em dash enjoyer
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www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149
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4 months ago
Dave Smith, 2000
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folkjs
4 months ago
Notes from the Lab - May 2025 [Better late than never!]
github.com/folk-js/folk...
Adversarial malleability was on our mind this month... canvasifying web pages, network indications, peer presence on any web page, and much more.
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Notes from the Lab - May 2025 Ā· folk-js folkjs Ā· Discussion #39
This month is all about adversarial malleability and ways to do this on the web! Orion's Talk on "User Agency in Other People's Websites" Recently Orion gave a talk at J On The Beach summarized as:...
https://github.com/folk-js/folkjs/discussions/39
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I enjoyed making the sketches for this post, they're just custom html elements I chucked straight into the markdown. This post was low stakes, just describing a thing I did. Next time will be spicier.
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QR data transfer protocols
www.orionreed.com/posts/qrtp/
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QR Transfer Protocols
Offline data transfer using QR codes
https://www.orionreed.com/posts/qrtp/
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most sane typescript type
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anyone know of a good way to subscribe to specific researchers, RSS-style? Something that's not tied to a specific journal...
4 months ago
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Luke
5 months ago
It occured to me that the web doesn't provide any utility functions for working with the geometry primitives (e.g. DOMRect), so I've proposed adding some:
github.com/w3c/fxtf-dra...
Seems like an obvious addition to me, but curious if others agree? Any other obvious ones beyond what I've mentioned?
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[geometry-1] Proposal: Geometry Utility Methods Ā· Issue #602 Ā· w3c/fxtf-drafts
Proposal: Geometry Utility Methods Summary This proposal adds common utility methods to the DOMRectReadOnly interface. These methods are widely used across DOM APIs and developer code, but currentl...
https://github.com/w3c/fxtf-drafts/issues/602
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UPDATE: I am going full-time on applied & independent research! After the last year with
@websimai.bsky.social
and ~5 years at BlockScience, it's time to give my research the attention it deserves. (1/4)
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Josh Horowitz
5 months ago
Computing could be a more harmonious and empowering force in our lives if we could mold it to our needs. We wrote a little about this vision of "malleable software" ā past, present, and future.
www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...
https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
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What if browsers shipped with servers? You could open *folders* of html/css/js, open local files with HTTPS, update your āsoftwareā via filesystem APIs when online⦠shifting agency toward users and creating new possibilities for authorship and distributionā¦
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This was a lot of fun! After seeing PVHās gorgeous slides I really want to make my future talks look that good. As always, after the talk people came up and said āhave you heard of X/Y/Z?ā and now I have so many better examples I wish I knew about when preparing the talk.
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6 months ago
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Whoās headed to Local-First conf in Berlin?
6 months ago
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7 months ago
@orionreed.bsky.social
and I have been working on a custom HTML attribute that binds a language server (LSP) to a input/textarea/contenteditable, which adds functionality like diagnostics, autocomplete, semantic renaming, etc.
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Hereās a multimodal protocol that uses QR codes to stream data and audio to ābackchannelā acknowledgement of received chunks. About 1-2KB/s Multimodality helps when thereās an asymmetry, like here where you need to aim the phone camera.
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8 months ago
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Another low-tech and very local-first webRTC signalling approach for folk canvas with
@chrisshank.com
, this time over sound via ggwave (using MFSK)
folk.systems/canvas/netwo...
(careful of volume)
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8 months ago
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A tiny protocol to stream data over QR codes in both directions at once. Each device confirms receipt of the previous chunk, so it handles interruptions smoothly. Made this for webRTC signalling and other things as part of the Folk Canvas project with
@chrisshank.com
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8 months ago
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9 months ago
We can now generate a ZUI like this from a directory of markdown files that uses wiki-style links (e.g. Obsidian, Bear, etc.)!
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What if hypertext were zoomable? Then you could zoom forever, in circles... I made this the other day and came up with a data structure that allows the coordinate origin to move through the graph, to keep memory fixed and avoid floating point precision limits.
folk.systems/canvas/space...
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9 months ago
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should I migrate all my past tweets to Bsky?
9 months ago
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Had a fantastic and surprising hang out with
@wintergatan.bsky.social
recently seeing Book of Mormon in NYC. Thanks for the great conversations Martin! Hope we get to hang out again sometime.
9 months ago
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Alright. Very extended internet holiday over, for real this time. Hey again! Iāve been away, err, working super hardā¦
9 months ago
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Okay ā I've been summoned. I think it's time to end my holiday away from the internet. Hey bsky!
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11 months ago
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Finishing the sound design for short #1 (Well, 4th short). But now we're releasing a short every two weeks. We hope.
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