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Future of Coding Weekly 2025/09 Week 1
2025-08-31 22:09
🧑💻 Write your own tiny programming systems 🎥 Python: The Documentary 🗓️ FoC Meetup
Two Minute Week
🗨️ Ivan Reese: 🎥 automerge cards
Share Your Work
🗨️ Dany:
I recently finished (and released) my first app built in my miqula programming system: https://danybittel.ch/marbling
Overall it worked quite well. Still some dearly missing features (like constants)... and bugs are super demotivating when I need to switch back to C++.
I really need to look for some paid work right now.. that's why I've been a bit quite in here.
Reading Together
🗨️ When Leggett:
I just got finished reading "The Dream Machine" about Licklider - great book, I recommend it to anyone who ever enjoyed an Alan Kay talk
Thinking Together
🗨️ Eli: 📝 Oatmeal - To the surprise of literally no one, I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own
Inspired by conversation last night at the virtual meetup, I wrote a blog post to introduce the toy language I’ve been working on.
Inspired by conversation at a recent Future of Coding event, I decided I’d write up a little something about the programming language I’ve been
Linking Together
🗨️ Stefan: 🧑💻 Write your own tiny programming systems
Came across tomasp's teaching materials and would like to especially highlight these two courses here:
- Write your own tiny programming systems — build your own tiny versions of ML, Basic, HM type system, Prolog, Self, Excel
- Programming Language Design — fantastic resources that embed technical language features into a broader perspective of design and culture
This is the kind of resource that is absolutely amazing to be publicly available under such permissive license.
Seriously, look at the tiny programming systems and bootstrap your way into your favorite programming environment in an afternoon or weekend. Don't miss the source code for the demos in the same repo. The only things missing are a TinyLisp and a TinyForth, but you can find those easily somewhere else on the Internet.
🗨️ Craig Abell:
Saw Will's Rust for Everyone! talk earlier oh his research into tooling to help people understand programs. The program slicer (highlights all lines impacted by the current line) seems particularity useful for understanding large functions.
🗨️ Konrad Hinsen: 🎥 Python: The Documentary | An origin story
Python: The Documentary | An origin story is a somewhat surprising movie, in the sense that I haven't seen anything similar yet in the Open Source universe. I'd summarize it as an autobiography of the Python community. In general, I am not particularly interested in autobiographies. But as an ex-member of the Python community, it was nice to see the aged faces of people I interacted with in the past, or even just faces to put on the names of people I never met but exchanged lots of e-mails with at some time.
Still, I'd be much more interested in a history of Python and its community, written by a trained historian and adding historical context and outsider views to the memories of the main protagonists.
Present Company
🗨️ When Leggett:
I guess this isn't exactly a presentation, but I'll be at the IIW unconference this fall if anyone else is gonna be there or wants to sign up: https://internetidentityworkshop.com/
also happy to chat about it with anyone interested but not sure or whatever
🗨️ Maikel: 🗓️ FoC Meetup · Luma
Our next "european" FoC meetup is on the 24th of september, this is the luma link : https://lu.ma/eog1qc5x and we already have 2 guests (I'll contact you), so we're looking for one more demo/presenter! This meetup will last an hour
Information about our meetup can be found here : https://futureofcoding.org/meetups
👨🏽💻 By 🐘 @marianoguerra@hachyderm.io 🐦 @warianoguerra
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