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Feeling of Computing Weekly 2026/05 Week 2
2026-05-11 11:22
devlog-together
💬 Tom Larkworthy
Lopecode is still horribly difficult to use. One step in the right direction is LSP support. So this sniffs the live runtime for auto-complete information. There are no types to source from, so this is the dynamic language version of it. Quite cool that it can autocomplete on data (it has its disadvantageous too, not sure if I can figure out function arguments dynamically for instance)
💬 Tom Larkworthy: http://lopecode.com/
I now own http://lopecode.com/ and I am putting on a notebook discovery feed for Notebooks hosted on atproto... and the landing page itself is a Lopecode document, itself hosted on atproto (https://did-plc-j7nm3lrd5h7fm3sfhcv3lhfv.lopecode.com/r/3mkxrk7yt4m2c). As Lopecode is primarily local-first, you can download anything to local file and work there. I have clear no mechanism to upload a file, hence this is definitely a devlog entry!
linking-together
💬 Tom Larkworthy: @sebastian.eurosky.social on Bluesky
This post exemplifies why I am quite excited by atmosphere, in multiple ways.
@sebastian.eurosky.social on Bluesky
Cloud data sharing across apps, and the author has their social data hosted on European servers.
💬 Konrad Hinsen: A desktop made for one – Geir's Everything
Vibe-coding your own desktop environment: https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
As this toot points out, however, this personalization comes at the price of making oneself dependent on a coding agent.
of-ai
💬 Kartik Agaram: Ashe Vazquez Nuñez
The thing I want to impress with this article is the consistency with which we as a species underestimate our own willingness to give up our culture, economy and autonomy to AI, even without monetary incentives.
(Take out the "to AI". It's cleaner.)
present-company
💬 Ivan Reese: April 2026 - YouTube
Would you look at that!
share-your-work
💬 Ivan Reese: Feeling of Computing • Episode 80 • Technical Dimensions of Feedback in Live Programming Systems
Feeling of Computing • Episode 80 • Technical Dimensions of Feedback in Live Programming Systems by @Joshua Horowitz
The podcast is back!! Woof this one took a long time to edit. But, the good news, the good news: this paper is a banger, and I'm not just saying that because I've gazed longingly into Josh's eyes (and I'm not saying I have done that, either). More good news — several of you probably know that this paper is a banger, for reasons that will become clear to the rest of you as you listen. (Have I said too much? Is it too easy to figure out all these secrets? Keep mum.)
What's the paper about? I mean… you have live programming systems. They give you feedback on your program as you edit it. The design of the feedback mechanism(s) is an interesting space to explore, and there are tradeoffs and (Margaret) qualia to balance and stretch and enrich. In the paper, Josh maps out the space and gives us hints as to how to make live programming systems way the hell better. Personally, I left this paper wanting feeling super jazzed to go make even wilder visual programming systems. Hopefully you'll find it similarly exciting.
And I hope you enjoy the podcast. Let me know what you think — sincerely.
💬 Nilesh Trivedi (QwikBuild): [2605.04637] SWE-WebDevBench: Evaluating Coding Agent Application Platforms as Virtual Software Agencies
Building an open benchmark - SWE-WebDevBench - for evaluating AI coding platforms like ourselves but also Replit, Lovable etc for real-world webapp development on complete software dev lifecycle.
Created a "lite" version for now, and did a comparative run against 6 major AI coding products. The Arxiv paper describes the framework.
💬 Mariano Guerra: Can a Stochastic Parrot Learn new Tricks? Introducing Tutuca-Bench
Can a Stochastic Parrot Learn new Tricks? Introducing Tutuca-Bench
Ask coding agents to use a new framework not in the training set* to solve 3 problems:
- Todo-MVC
- Temperature converter
- 7GUIs CRUD
Results:
- Claude Code
- Gemini CLI (best style)
- OpenCode + Big Pickle
Codex required identity verification so it was disqualified
- Using skills and a framework CLI to guide them
thinking-together
💬 Kartik Agaram: The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
Your inability to imagine a world where you don't get exactly what you want becomes a manifesto.
The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
💬 Jasmine Otto: wanix.site design document and sketch implementation from claude. origin: https://claude.ai/share/1458e67f-3d39-4fdf-b7f4-00f681e7d27b · GitHub
latest on wanix from progrium: a local first fork/exec model for websites. feels very close to @Tom Larkworthy's Lopecode goals
ive been thinking about this design after apptron's built-in offline support for public pages, while also trying to think about a more gist-like version of apptron projects. i was also inspired by the #web/caches wanix fs that lets you interact with the caches api used with service workers for offline sites.
👨🏽💻 By 🐘 @[email protected] 🦋 @marianoguerra.org
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