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Future of Coding Weekly 2025/12 Week 5
2025-12-29 04:02
🛸 HyperDoc demo 🤔 Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? 🎥 Demos
DevLog Together
🗨️ Konrad Hinsen: 🛸 HyperDoc demo
A first version is now up at https://hyperdoc.khinsen.net/
Start for example here and click on "multivariate calculus" in the list of prerequisites.
To do:
- documentation
- improved rendering of Wikipedia pages
- collapsible section in links/backlinks view (because Wikipedia pages tend to have tons of both)
- a cache for recently used pages, to improve performance.
🗨️ Tom Larkworthy:
Turned out there were performance problems on larger notebooks but its pretty smooth now. I got the pinning working so it will remember open code cells on export... sometimes the code is the content so you can have the runnable code of certain cells open by default. Sometimes the content is the content and then an inline editor for markdown* makes more sense and not bothering with a code editor for writing prose. Very good. Its quite nice now.
Properly built in dataflow and in userspace, so if you change the canonical code editor its instantly reflected in the clones.
There a tons of small functional and navigation bugs to fix. Biggest next thing to tackle is not losing all your progress when closing a page and forgetting to export (a.k.a. change history).
🗨️ Jimmy Miller:
During these breaks, I always have big plans for what I want to do. But every time I find myself spending too much time on one thing and being frustrated with myself. I've thought about making a schedule, but those never work for me. I've thought about time tracking, but that level of precision and tracking just bother me so much. The goal isn't a regiment, but a reminder of what will help me feel like I'm doing the things I wanted to do.
What I really want is to be able to record what I've been doing, see the balance of things I've been focus on and decide if I'm happy with that balance or need to do other things.
So I made a little menu bar app to do exactly that. The interface is super simple, you can add goals associated with a color. Then click and drag to increase the amount you've done towards a goal. The values are not exact. The graph is normalized. It's incredibly simple, but has already helped me a ton.
Linking Together
🗨️ Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin: 🤔 Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10 — Nice talk, but this particular 34:10 insight how mobile detecting "scroll event" before you even lift your finger and it'll recognize "tap event" made it a "consumption machine" at the expense of text editing productivity — that's a jaw-dropping insight connecting low-level "technical" decision to the high-level feeling of computing. 💡
(see https://jenson.org/text/ for details on his research into improving mobile editing)
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