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Future of Coding Weekly 2025/10 Week 4
2025-10-26 23:16
🌳 Cope and Drag: DSL for gradually improving diagrams 📝 Simple Assembler and Simple CPUs First 🎥 ROONS! A new marble computer
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🗨️ guitarvydas: 📝 Simple Assembler and Simple CPUs First
DevLog Together
🗨️ Tom Larkworthy:
Nearly got the new serialisation format complete. Its self serializing and its forking fast!
The new foundations have less coupling to Observable. You can store files in it and read them using web APIs like fetch, XHR, dynamic imports and script tags. This is enough to boot Observable up and also to serve all its network calls in the std library locally without any modification to the 1st party source. I am considering spinning the serialisation format out as a separate project as its quite generic but I feel that would be a distraction so I will not but essentially it provides a virtual web inside a single static file. A bit like service-workers but without additional files or a webserver dependancy
Thinking Together
🗨️ guitarvydas: 📝 Efficient Function Nesting
🗨️ Jonathan Frederickson:
Folks, I'm looking for help finding a project that I ran across a while back that's adjacent to some of the visual-programming stuff we like here. It was a node-and-wire style infrastructure deployment tool, I think specifically for AWS, that would take care of setting up IAM rules for communication between components with wires connecting them.
I feel like I might have run across it either here, or while looking up something about the now-gone node-and-wire web interface for Canonical Juju.
Also starting to feel like I might have dreamt it up though!
Linking Together
🗨️ Tom Larkworthy:
Wow this has feels.
https://observablehq.com/@jwolondon/making-plot-sketchy
🗨️ daniel g. siegel: 📝 Anticipate
Here's a take on how AI could really benefit and augment our thinking by exploring how it can support reflection and decision making rather than make choices for us: https://www.bigideainitiative.org/ideas/anticipate
This was done by a collaborator of ours, Niklas Muhs.
Anticipate explores how AI can augment design thinking by uncovering hidden assumptions and navigating uncertainty, leading to more informed and creative decisions.
🗨️ Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin:
"Cope and Drag" mini language for gradually constraining/improving diagrams 🍰. See paper for details but as usual with PLT blog, the post gives good background.
They built this in context of formal methods, but I think the mixed approach of "user can drag nodes + partially automate via constraints" has wider applicability.
🗨️ Daniel Garcia: 🎥 ROONS! A new marble computer
Present Company
🗨️ Maikel:
Next wednesday 29th October is our monthly FoC meetup (see the announcement channel for details).. we still have 2 spots for demo's left, who dares on this special edition?👻
👨🏽💻 By 🐘 @[email protected] 🐦 @warianoguerra
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