Freewheeling Apps

In which I read out every word of James Boyd White's 1985 paper, "Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life" which spawned the field of Constitutive Rhetoric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutive_rhetoric

Further experiments in avoiding the terminal. Source code for the right side: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/template-live-editor2 Source code for the left side: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love

A little toy for running one of 8 programs or comparing two similar programs. The app and its source code: https://akkartik.name/curio1.love

What it's like to program my Freewheeling Apps. Sequel to http://akkartik.name/freewheeling.

What it's like to program my Freewheeling Apps. Sequel to http://akkartik.name/freewheeling.

Manifesto for Freewheeling Apps, which are easy to try out, easy to modify, and easy to share. Transcript and links: http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

Manifesto for Freewheeling Apps, which are easy to try out, easy to modify, and easy to share. http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

In this episode I'm experimenting with building live programs: programs that can be modified as they run, without needing to be restarted. It's surprising how little code it takes.

An idea I riffed on during Handmade Network's Wheel Reinvention Jam: https://handmade.network/p/283/bifold-text. Makes debug by print more ergonomic by adding a little bit of structure to source code that tooling is aware of: markers for prints in...

In this episode I'm experimenting with building live programs: programs that can be modified as they run, without needing to be restarted. It's surprising how little code it takes. https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love

I just created a Peertube channel. To mark the occasion, here's a short video of me using my note-taking app using a couple of recent features I haven't mentioned before. https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pensieve.love

Using my Teliva environment (https://github.com/akkartik/teliva) to build a small, hackable text-mode Gemini browser (https://gemini.circumlunar.space) in Lua.

My talk at FOSDEM, 2022-01-16 Main page for the talk, including video of Q&A: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

I plan to use my new Teliva environment for Lua programs (https://github.com/akkartik/teliva) to solve Advent of Code problems this year. Here's a little dress-rehearsal using a problem from last year.

Beginnings of a high-level language for a Mu computer. I'm building the shell from the ground up to include a trace of computations that a human can browse and drill down into to arbitrary levels of detail. Main project page: https://github.com/a...

So far the Mu computing environment consists only of textual elements, even though application programs can render graphics. In this episode I show some initial ideas on working with images as part of the environment. Main project page: https://g...

The Mu computer boots into a shell environment running a Lisp-based language. Lisp isn't an ideal syntax for a shell, particularly one with just 120 characters of horizontal space. This episode describes two features to make simple programs as eas...

I couldn't search all of the history of https://futureofcoding.org/community so I built a browser for its offline backups. All the way up from machine code. 256 colors, no file system, no networking. Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik...

I've been building a note-taking app for myself. This is an early demo of it.

The Mu computer's prototyping environment can now edit functions after defining them. This enables me to use it for longer sessions. Thanks to Tiddlywiki for inspiring the function selection mechanism, which tends to show the most recently used f...