designing user interfaces, online brands and information architectures for some of the UK's biggest companies (BBC, etc.) (more)

LÖVE is an awesome framework (game engine) you can use to make 2D computer games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. https://love2d.org/

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser right now. Decker builds on the legacy of HyperCard and the visual aesthetic of classic MacOS https://beyondloom.com/decker/ (more)

David Thompson: Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted. For the first time ever, Guile came out on top with the most submissions! There’s a very specific reason for this outcome. 11 out of the 15 Guile games were built for the web with Hoot, a Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler that I work on at the Spritely Institute. (more)

tools for thought researcher https://jessmart.in/ (more)

An attempt to integrate a bunch of past pages, imagining an ecosystem that includes all the legacy crap, but supports a way for a network enlightenment to emerge.... (more)

first Product Manager hired for Adding Product To Your Startup Team. Should probably think of them as CPO.

When you start Growing Your Startup Tech Product Team, one or both of your Founders typically fills the Product Management role. (more)

DXOS provides developers with everything they need to build real-time, collaborative apps which run entirely on the client, and communicate peer-to-peer, without servers. DXOS applications work offline, share state instantly when online, and leave end-users in control of their data and privacy. https://dxos.org/ local-first collaborationware

Jess Martin says Alan Kay's advice for inventing the future has a surprising nuance: build it quickly. (more)

Jess Martin: Reflections on Think Week 2020. This past week I received an incredible gift: a week's vacation from Lambda School, when I'd just taken a week-long family vacation just a few weeks earlier. What to do with this unexpected gift of time? (more)

Jess Martin: Going Back to Go Forward. Last Friday was my last day at DXOS. (more)

Jess Martin: The dwindling distinction between docs and apps. I'm intrigued by the idea of sharing a single "document" between applications, where each app can be good at the thing that it's good at. Unfortunately, this is not where we find ourselves today. (more)

Jess Martin on Realtime Collaborative Systems. Why Realtime Collaboration? (more)

Theodore John (Ted) Kaczynski (/kəˈzɪnski/ ⓘ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (/ˈjuːnəbɒmər/ ⓘ YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.[1][2] He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle. Kaczynski murdered three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment. He authored Industrial Society and Its Future, a 35,000-word manifesto and social critique opposing all forms of technology, rejecting leftism, and advocating a nature-centered form of anarchism. M<

A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena. On small scales, physical matter exhibits properties of both particles and waves, and quantum computing leverages this behavior using specialized hardware. Classical physics cannot explain the operation of these quantum devices, and a scalable quantum computer could perform some calculations exponentially faster[a] than any modern "classical" computer. In particular, a large-scale quantum computer could break widely used encryption schemes and aid physicists in performing physical simulations; however, the current state of the art is largely experimental and impractical, with several obstacles to useful applications. The basic unit of information in quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in classical computing. However, unlike a classical bit, which can be in one of two states (a binary), a qubit can exist in a superposition of its two "basis" states, which loosely means that it is in both states simultaneously. When measuring a qubit, the result is a probabilistic output of a classical bit. If a quantum computer manipulates the qubit in a particular way, wave interference effects can amplify the desired measurement results. The design of quantum algorithms involves creating procedures that allow a quantum computer to perform calculations efficiently and quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing

Andy Matuschak: How Might We Learn? Your ideal learning environment... Talks about learning technology often center on technology. Instead, I want to begin by asking: what do you want learning to be like—for yourself? (more)

Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen: How can we develop transformative tools for thought (thinking tools)? Part of the origin myth of modern computing is the story of a golden age in the 1960s and 1970s. In this story, visionary pioneers pursued a dream in which computers enabled powerful tools for thought, that is, tools to augment human intelligence E.g., Douglas Engelbart, Augmenting Human Intellect... retrospectively it's difficult not to be disappointed, to feel that computers have not yet been nearly as transformative as far older tools for thought, such as language and writing. We believe now is a good time to work hard on this vision again. In this essay we sketch out a set of ideas we believe can be used to help develop transformative new tools for thought (more)

Quantum computing for the very curious by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen, Presented in a new mnemonic medium which makes it almost effortless to remember what you read. https://quantum.country/

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