Future of Coding Weekly 2025/03 Week 4

🥞 Linear Logic and Permutation Stacks 🎥 Malleable UIs using AI ✍️ Code Editing with Free-form AI-Interpreted Sketching

Two Minute Week

💬 Marek Rogalski

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I'm getting feedback about the state of the game using basic OCR now. Unfortunately the OCR that I'm using is optimized towards "natural" text - so it doesn't handle game UIs too well.

🎥 OCR

Devlog Together

🧮 Spreadsheet #3 – ezhik.jp via Ezhik

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Joining Kartik Agaram in the Lua club. I got Lua running in the browser (using wasmoon) and ported my spreadsheet experiments to it: ezhik.jp/spreadsheet-3

I think I'd like to experiment more with properties. I've already got the ability to change styling of cells, but what if we could go even further? Move cells around? Make them round? Make them spin? Make them not cells but images? I want to mess with the spreadsheet formula (pun intended) even further.

What if Spreadsheet #2 was Lua? You get Spreadsheet #3.

Thinking Together

💬 Denny Vrandečić

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I found the holy grail: Vibe computing + Literate programming = ❤️‍🔥

Content

✍️🎥 CHI25 CodeShaping Video Presentation via Christopher Shank

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"Code Shaping: Iterative Code Editing with Free-form AI-Interpreted Sketching" by Ryan Yen, Jian Zhao, & Daniel Vogel (2025)

1️⃣ Unit: Next Generation Visual Programming System via Fuzz

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Unit is a General Purpose Visual Programming Language and Environment built with a primary focus on Developer Experience.

It is heavily inspired by Live, Data Flow, Reactive, Functional and Object Oriented Programming paradigms. Formally, units are Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) Finite State Machines (FSM). A program in Unit is represented as a Graph.

🥞 Linear Logic and Permutation Stacks--The Forth Shall Be First via Paul Tarvydas

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The real Achilles' heel for these languages, however, is their innate inability to deal with parallel or distributed computation.

Perhaps it is time to move on to the next theorem.

further: my thoughts and references

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🎥 Malleable UIs using AI, from Haijun Xia's lab in UC San Diego via Kartik Agaram

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Malleable UIs using AI, from Haijun Xia's lab in UC San Diego

Yining Cao's Jelly work referenced here doesn't seem to be on the lab's site, but this seems to be the paper.

🤖 crawlers by AI companies are not respecting robots.txt and so hostile to the open web via Kartik Agaram

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It seems like a pretty big negative of AI that crawlers by AI companies are not respecting robots.txt and so hostile to the open web.

I've been hearing about this for years, and I've never understood it. Reading robots.txt is mature technology. I'm curious if anyone here has perspective on the technical/political aspects. (Goes without saying that it's not a good look.)

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👨🏽‍💻 By 🐘 @marianoguerra@hachyderm.io 🐦 @warianoguerra

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