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Future of Coding Weekly 2026/01 Week 1
2026-01-05 11:09
🎥 Alan Kay: 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces 🎥 FoC Virtual Meetup December 2025 📝 Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need LEGO Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems
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🗨️ Medet Ahmetson: 🎥 Ara is live.
Hey guys, happy new year.
Launched the Ara, a social media layer on top of the open-source projects, that adds maintainer-led community building.
Once its build, turns the open-source to the community-based project.
Even though, I got early replies that's still UX needs lots of improvements, I would still encourage to try it, and your feedback will be really helpful.
First, check out the youtube walkthrough https://youtu.be/daBZkiKarI8?si=3zOKUua15W8vXFSi
Then, try it yourself on https://ara.foundation (better to use Dark Mode, Laptop Browser, mobile screen or light mode have some bugs).
And Happy New Year!
🗨️ TodePond: 🎥 pastayearrr
i made a video montage to go with a section of the most recent bonus episode!
🗨️ Geert Roumen: 🎥 matrix example plc
I've been working and thinking on how we can bridge different forms of data; inspired by Magic Ink by Bret Victor, Edward Tufte's books and perhaps also a bit by the Excel & Figma metaphors.
By combining the Table, the spatial structure of the Matrix, and the focus of the Form, you can move from "viewing data" to "interacting with information."
The Matrix view is a bit between a pivot table, a heat map and could still benefit greatly from adding shape/ background colour etc to the cells.
I'm curious to learn what other research and experiments are done in this direction; and if you have any experience with them; especially if they are tailored to a super specific other context.
🗨️ guitarvydas: 📝 Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need LEGO Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems
This article is about what I think is necessary to make Software LEGO-like Parts. I keep pumping opinion pieces out to substack (300+ thus far). I can't judge whether an article is interesting or not, but, this one seems to have garnered some interest...
📝 Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need LEGO Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems
DevLog Together
🗨️ Konrad Hinsen:
There's now basic documentation for my "foreign Wiki interface", which I renamed to "hyperbook interface" because "Wiki" implies editability, which is not what I provide. I spent some time for an accepted term meaning "a collection of interlinked and somehow related hypertext pages" but found none, so I made up "hyperbook".
I found some nice applications for my new abstraction layer immediately. For example, hyperbooks standing for "all functions in my Lisp image", making it possible to link to a function. Quite nice for software documentation, as you can see here, for example.
Linking Together
🗨️ guitarvydas: 📝 Fundamentals of Compilers
Forwarding a link to a compiler book posted on OhmLand by Patrick Dubroy. Along with a few more links to some stuff that I think is easy to read and understand.
🗨️ Ivan Reese: 🎥 Alan Kay: 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces
New Alan Kay talk — 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces. It's a tour of classic works — Sketchpad, GRAIL, Mother of all Demos, formation of PARC, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Negroponte's work on spatial UIs, Etoys, etc. — with light commentary and context.
Includes a video clip of GRAIL that I hadn't seen before. It's a node-wire (esq) programming system that visualizes execution by flashing the nodes, and it gives you control over the rate of execution. Wild.
Present Company
🗨️ Ivan Reese: 🎥 FoC Virtual Meetup December 2025
Here's the video of today's virtual meetup
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