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Future of Coding Weekly 2025/05 Week 2
2025-05-11 23:35
🪡 Stitch: Prototype quickly on modern technology 🎥 FoC Virtual Meetup 10 📝 The Unix Binary wants to be a Smalltalk Method, Not an Object
Two Minute Week
💬 Marek Rogalski
Here is an overview of a the most complex macro that Automat played so far. It has a little bit of everything: OCR, Assembly, hacky string processing, fine-tuned keystroke sequences. The end result is about 2x faster than manual execution and pretty satisfying to watch.
🎥 Skyrim Ingredient Farming #2
Our Work
🧮 ActuarialPlayground.com via Declan
As an example of how I've been using model composition in calculang, I added notes to ActuarialPlayground.com on manipulating the formulas to do mortgage protection - by composing with an old loan calculator model (via just a plain old URL).
Here are the formula changes, you can interactively swap them on the website, under 💬
🪡 Stitch: Prototype quickly on modern technology. Free and open source via Nick Arner
Hey all! Excited to share a new project some of us (Elliot Boschewitz, Christian Clampitt, Adam Menges, and myself) have been hacking on, Stitch: stitchdesign.app
We’re ready to add people in mass to the TestFlight. It’s an open source version of a visual programming environment, similar to Origami or Quartz Composer.
In addition to being able to build anything those two can, it also supports AR, CoreML, and native 3D support. As well as being built in SwiftUI, so it runs on basically any Apple device and is easy to hack on and improve.
It’s open source, and we welcome new contributions! github.com/StitchDesign/Stitch
💬 Dave Mason
Teaching Computer Science in the AI Age - discuss!
💬 Isaac Carrasco-Ortiz
From a health webpage on mental overstimulation. This phrase is particularly interesting to me:
“It can feel like you have too many tabs opened on your mental browser and your brain doesn’t know what to do.”
What’s the idea behind using technological metaphors to describe something human? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? What does that tell us about the way we make sense of our everyday technologies? Hmm… 🤔
Content
📝 What If We Made Advertising Illegal? via Andreas S
Only the good things from HN 🙂 simone.org/advertising
📝 The Google Zanzibar Paper, annotated by AuthZed via Walker Griggs
Perhaps a meta question for sharing annotations -- does anyone know if this is an off-the-shelf solution for hosting paper annotations? It reminds me of Fermet's Margins solution but didn't find a clear signal in the source at first glance
📝 The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything via Maximilian Ernestus
Talking about feelings again:
notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing
This resonated a lot with me. Not sure yet what will come out of it in the coming days.
📝 The Unix Binary wants to be a Smalltalk Method, Not an Object via Konrad Hinsen
The Unix Binary wants to be a Smalltalk Method, Not an Object by @Joel Jakubovic. A bit lengthy, but has interesting insights.
📝 An Overview + Detail Layout for Visualizing Compound Graphs via Nilesh Trivedi
I stumbled upon this solution to the problem of visualizing large compound graphs (where nodes can be nested inside each other)
🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥 via Andreas S
Like mastodon but with values?
Has anyone heard of it or can make meaningful distinctions?
🦀 Rust Dependencies Scare Me via Andreas S
Complexity..
Present Company
🎥 Virtual Meetup 10 • April 30, 2025 via Ivan Reese
Here's the recording of the most recent F# or C# virtual meetup.
👨🏽💻 By 🐘 @marianoguerra@hachyderm.io 🐦 @warianoguerra
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