Viewpoint demo by Scott Kim. Towards a computer for visual thinkers.
Viewpoint demo by Scott Kim. Towards a computer for visual thinkers.
Visual Programming Cortex - featuring lots of interesting experimental language examples.
From: https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex/blob/master/implementations.md
Visible structure, from A Pattern Language. On the importance of giving uses a direct sense of a building's structure. Thinking about this in relation to code and Minecraft. Via Yoshiki's notes.
From: https://www.notion.so/A-Pattern-Language-for-Interfaces-c2f88d6b16d84293995c006042e79d88
"WebGL is only a rasterization API." That... actually helps.
From: https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-fundamentals.html
Why the #wasmsummit website isn't written in wasm - talk by Ashley Williams. This is one of the best, most concrete examples I've seen of thinking through the political and philosophical implications of a specific language/approach.
Avara: "The placement of its nodes is exclusively based on a rough square grid. The original reason of this design choice was to facilitate collaboration on the font, and it now results in the radical and highly constrained shapes of this type family."
Fantastic talk by Joseph White on the motivations for the PICO-8 fantasy console. I love the attention to how the process of designing and coding should feel (cozy, inviting).
Kid Pix 1.0 blender modes.
From: https://archive.org/details/KID_PIX_DOS via https://cybre.space/@SuricrasiaOnline/104632534685909027
Cellular automata demos by Rudy Rucker using "CA Lab" software.
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZUzakG3bE via @whistlegraph
The more I understand what Base16 is: a structured way for setting up and applying color palettes (a design system), the more I am impressed by it. From: http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/
Light and dark mode with hotkey. Mostly done using pywal, though Vim turned out to be tricky because the gruvbox package needs to have the background set. I might try using base16-shell instead...
Thread by @helvetica on how genre conventions are a shortcut for the cognitive load of game rules. And why that hinders movement towards new, less toxic conventions. From: https://twitter.com/helvetica/status/1274450330726645762