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Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk 31 Jul 2013 | 07:07 pm
Another masterpiece from Bret Victor: The Future of Programming. What you probably don’t know is that his talk was actually an hour long. The second half was censored from the internet by an as yet u...
Getting to simple 14 May 2013 | 03:19 am
There is one gigantic problem with programming today, a problem so large that it dwarfs all others. Yet it is a problem that almost no one is willing to admit, much less talk about. It is easy to illu...
State of the Dart 28 Feb 2013 | 12:43 am
Coding again at last! In Dart. Herewith are my initial experiences with Dart. The reason I am using Dart is to run in the browser, which is the best platform for modern UI work. Being able to run on e...
Time is of the Essence 4 Feb 2013 | 02:53 am
The following is an abstract of a position statement for the Live programming workshop at ICSE. Time is of the Essence Today we only know how to do live programming in special cases, such as pure func...
Down the rabbit hole of types 22 Jan 2013 | 10:08 pm
Time for a progress report, now that I have some progress to report. I didn’t get much research done last semester because I was teaching a new class: 6.170 Software Studio. It was a noble experiment ...
Turing on programming 24 Jun 2012 | 04:45 am
The process of constructing instruction tables should be very fascinating. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to ...
The voice whispering bulllshhhiiittt 12 Jun 2012 | 04:53 am
Zed Shaw has another awesome rant at http://vimeo.com/43380467. I agree with much of what he says about both the web and OO. I don’t see the causal connection though: they both suck, but it is probabl...
Domain specific programming experience 8 May 2012 | 02:29 pm
The discussion on the last post suggested Domain Specific IDEs as a possible way forward. By restricting the domain (e.g. games) the IDE might gain enough semantic insight into the program to properly...
An IDE is not enough 1 May 2012 | 02:03 am
The internets are buzzing with new IDE ideas. I credit Bret Victor’s masterful demo for much of this. Chris Granger is having amazing success kickstarting his IDE concept. Josh Marinacci discussed som...
Kickstarter: the aftermath 28 Apr 2012 | 03:40 am
On Kickstarting research I asked for comments on the Light Table project. They were largely positive. Now, for the sake of argument, let’s assume this will be a complete disaster (a reasonable assumpt...
