Using computers more freely and safely
A 15-minute manifesto (video and transcript) on lessons learned trying to build situated software for a year.
View ArticleQuickly make any LÖVE app programmable from within the app
It's a very common workflow. Type out a LÖVE app. Try running it. Get an error, go back to the source code. How can we do this from within the LÖVE app? So there's nothing to install? This is a story...
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I love reading Kragen Sitaker as an endless fount of surprisingly deep programs and analysis. Lately he's been avoiding the web and writing in a directory of markdown files. He writes so much that he...
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A simple app for drawing Wardley Maps
wardley.love is a reskin of snap.love for drawing Wardley Maps. I've been using it a lot; here's one example:
View Articlecrosstable.love
crosstable.love is a little app I whipped up for tracking standings during the Cricket World Cup, just to avoid the drudgery of resorting rows as new results come in. video; 20 seconds
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A little sudoku-like app for helping first-graders practice addition. This attempt at situated software for schooling got a little more use than spell-cards.love. video; 25 seconds
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Lua Carousel
I finally decided to hang up a shingle on itch.io. My first app there is not a game. Lua Carousel is a lightweight environment for writing small, throwaway Lua and LÖVE programs. With many thanks to...
View Articlerabbot.love
rabbot.love is a little helper I whipped up to check the programs the kids were writing for a neat little paper computer. video; 25 seconds
View ArticleSokoban
The kids have been enjoying Baba is You, and watching them brought back pleasant memories for me of playing the classic crate-pushing game Sokoban. So I went looking and found a very nice project that...
View ArticleHow I program in 2024
I talk a lot here about using computers freely, how to select programs to use, how to decide if a program is trustworthy infrastructure one can safely depend on in the long term. I also spend my time...
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