Sketch Symbols and the Self programming language
@jason wrote: From their blog: Symbols are now very much like Artboards and they occupy one central place in your document. Instances of Symbols are no longer groups which you can edit directly, but...
View ArticleAbout the books/papers category
@jason wrote: Talk about interesting books and research papers! Make and get recommendations, or critique something terrible you’ve read. Posts: 1 Participants: 1 Read full topic
View ArticleWhat are you reading? (April 2016)
@jason wrote: I don’t know if it makes sense to make 1 thread per book or 1 thread per month of books (probably the first one) but for now, this is a nicer call to action! Right now I’m reading (and...
View ArticleOrigami Studio from Facebook
@jason wrote: New prototyping tool coming out from Facebook, Origami Studio. Works a lot like Quartz Composer (which they used to use, but now are effectively replacing). Looks interesting, but I’m...
View ArticleDevices that explain themselves
@pat wrote: I'm not especially interested IoT stuff but there is something very nice about this approach: Talking to the world with Thington. I like the idea of computation that explains itself. I...
View ArticleNon-Programmer Language
@jason wrote: There’s a really neat paper that’s been circulating, Studying the Language and Structure in Non-Programmers’ Solutions to Programming Problems. The paper presents a study surveying...
View ArticleSkin as an Input Surface
@jason wrote: Understanding How People Use Skin as an Input Surface for Mobile Computing surveys how people might use skin as a gesture-based input device. There are no actual sensors involved,...
View ArticleUsing the iPhone's magnetometer for input
@soroushkhanlou wrote: Via Cabel on Twitter: I think you could make some pretty cool interactions with this. Cabel's tweet shows how some folks at Disney made a cool interaction with it: twitter.com...
View ArticleCHI 2016 Technical Program Preview
@jason wrote: Looks like a lot of really interesting stuff. Anyone going this year? Posts: 1 Participants: 1 Read full topic
View ArticleProgramming with Comics
@jason wrote: Hey so I came across this amazing prototype yesterday, Programming with Comics... hehe, OK it’s mine but anyway, I thought it might be interesting to discuss. I’ll start off by saying I...
View ArticleThinking out loud
@jason wrote: I tweeted tonight that I'm twitter.com Jason Brennan (jasonbrennan) Starting to feel like I really haven’t thought about something until I “write it down in some form (usually in text,...
View ArticleLoopy by Nicky Case
@jason wrote: New from Nicky Case is Loopy, “a tool for thinking in systems.” From the page: In a world filled with ever-more-complex technological, sociological, ecological, political & economic...
View ArticleAbout the prototypes category
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View ArticleAbout the explorable explanations category
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View ArticleWhat are you reading? (April 2017)
@jason wrote: Hello readers! This is a thread is about what rad books / blog posts / papers you’re reading (or recently read) and what they’re all about! I just finished reading Chaim Gingold’s PhD...
View ArticleIntroductions! (and re-introductions)
@jason wrote: Hi there, I’m Jason Brennan! I’m the first one here, so I thought I’d introduce myself while there’s nobody around. You probably already know me in one way or another (I probably invited...
View ArticleLa Tabla by Chaim
@jason wrote: A new demo thingy from Chaim Gingold! La Tabla is a magical table—put things on it and they come to life. Make music and animations. Play games. Design your own pinball tables. Use your...
View ArticleZigZag datastructures [ted nelson]
@Martillion wrote: ZigZag data structures, a project by Ted Nelson. Does anyone have any experience with this odd yet intruiging system? I've tried getting into it once, but have no idea what to use...
View ArticleFuture Programming from eleVR
@jason wrote: Well this is super rad: From their post about it: We’re currently prototyping designs for a VR programming interface/language that is both visual and embodied. It is intended to be...
View ArticleAbout the programming environments category
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