Oct 16, 2022
New video: Live-coding using LÖVE
(audio/video; 20 minutes)
Credits:
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Sep 18, 2022
✅ Edit source code from within the app
✅ Edit source code for source code editor from within the app
✅ Create graphical debug experiences for source code editor from within the app
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Sep 3, 2022
"Here's 6kLoC, now go reinvent Smalltalk."
An example LÖVE repo that can be used to modify its own sources.
Editor: a lightly forked version of lines.love
Debugger: a graphical log of what the program did, as demonstrated here.
These tools aren't general-purpose. Instead, they're intended to evolve with the sole app they're used to modify: themselves.
Today I went through and gave every fork of lines.love the ability to modify and debug its own source code. Just press ctrl+e to edit the sources.
It's kinda funny to add a code editor to a text editor. The code editor can hide debug prints, and has a teeny bit of colorization. On the other hand it doesn't (yet) support drawings or selecting text.
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Aug 27, 2022
Here's the final demo of the project I did for last week's Wheel Reinvention Jam: rethinking development tools to center debug by print. I think you can replace the benefits of debuggers and save on a bunch of complexity in language infrastructure and tooling.
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Aug 23, 2022
I just added hyperlinks to my text editor in 35 lines of Lua
Deep in the guts of the renderer, right before it renders a fragment of text, check if it's a file, and turn it into my button abstraction if so.
Caveats: links can't wrap over multiple lines, links can't contain spaces.
Incredibly inefficient, to check the file system for every single word. So it's in a fork for now while I decide just what to do with this new super power.
It's interesting to compare this approach with Gemini.
Gemini: links on their own line, support arbitrary link text.
Me: inline links are ok, but the text will always be the URL.
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Aug 14, 2022
As preparation for tomorrow's wheel reinvention jam, I just created a fork of lines.love with all the drawing support ripped out. Time to take it in a new direction.
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Aug 7, 2022
Idea for a new tool
Drop a Mastodon or HN URL on a window, and it constructs a more dense 2D graphical layout for a thread.
- Separate card for each comment.
- Ideal readable width per card.
- Short arrows from comments to their replies.
- Keyboard shortcuts to pan along semantically to sibling or child.
Side-effects:
- It needs the network, obviously.
- Zero contact with file-system.
Inspirations:
- Colin Wright's Chartodon
- S-ol Bekic's FediDag tool (example)
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Aug 4, 2022
Current state of my note-taking app
Things of note:
- Operates on a hard-coded directory of text files.
- No overlapping, no tiling, just an infinite 2D surface of columns. Commands open new columns.
- Wordstar-style menu up top of important commands in current context, and their shortcuts.
- Command palette at top left that filters commands available in current context.
- Files/nodes can have links. Links can form graphs, as the picture shows (original: http://www.maplefish.com/todd/papers/Experiences.html)
- Links have labels (next/previous by default).
- Graph-traversal commands can take an argument (next/previous by default) of the edge label you want to follow.
- 'add' adds an edge immediately to the current node, 'append' traverses the edge repeatedly to the end, then adds.
- 'step' navigates along an edge from the current node and opens it in a new column, 'unroll' traverses the edge repeatedly to the end and collects all nodes into a single column.
add:append :: step:unroll
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Aug 2, 2022
I'm doing a major migration of my notes schema to make it work better with my note-taking app. In the process I've been reading a random (mostly embarrassing) sampling of 10+ years of notes. But here's a non-embarrassing one:
Jun 2012: I need fuck you software.
That pretty much explains why I started Mu 2 years later :D
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