Kartik Agaram @akkartik
Building simple, low-maintenance programs that reward curiosity about their internals. @[email protected] akkartik.name/about Joined September 2007-
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tiny internets + small databases + homegrown servers + home-cooked software... increasingly convinced that personal + communal computing will be realized through smaller forms of existing computing what does technology that optimizes for community rather than scale look like?
I've always had it on my bio, but to reiterate: you'll have a better time following me at merveilles.town/@akkartik Twitter has for some time been bringing up the rear in my list of links at akkartik.name. Today it's out. youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyi…
@TodePond Similar crazy idea I had a while ago:
"Arc, internet computer" seems fundamentally conservative: no questioning of the networking stack as the cause of aggregation, no primitives for collaboration or local-first, still windows/tabs, doesn't suggest a post-screen world, end-user is just tweaking UIs, &c
Alright, sometimes you read a paper and just need the tool in your toolbox right now. But not in a browser. With minimal dependencies, easy to install, atop a stable platform. Easy for anyone to modify.. ..without restarting it. Early days, but hopefully it won't take long.
Alright, sometimes you read a paper and just need the tool in your toolbox right now. But not in a browser. With minimal dependencies, easy to install, atop a stable platform. Easy for anyone to modify.. ..without restarting it. Early days, but hopefully it won't take long. https://t.co/nMcGZaVxNO
@akkartik You might like youtube.com/watch?v=1_arAn… by @hamish_todd
I'm starting to write like @matt_levine, signaling opinions with a question mark?
Has any company that makes money successfully incentivized keeping programs short? Or is "growth at all costs" simply incompatible with such maxims?
@AllenWebster4th @forkingpathsdev @ryanjfleury @AbnerCoimbre @DionSystems I feel like @akkartik's jam project is the tip of the iceberg for this sort of thing - he wrote his own visuals for runtime, but I can imagine including community "plugins" or extending it to edit-time too (especially if the edit/run lines were blurred.) handmade.network/p/283/bifold-t…
This talk has at long last gotten me to see the light. It also got me to spend a couple of days prototyping a live-coding setup in LÖVE spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBb… (video; 5 minutes)
This talk has at long last gotten me to see the light. It also got me to spend a couple of days prototyping a live-coding setup in LÖVE spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBb… (video; 5 minutes)
The best tools for thought were the friends we made along the way
@jarredsumner Here's how you could do it in val.town! loom.com/share/2b9057d0…
@CaseyExplosion I'm making this. You learn different spells depending on what you write. Creative writing is how you power devices, win fights and solve puzzles. It exports .txt files, because it's a text editor. Demo in 2 days now!
@CaseyExplosion I'm making this. You learn different spells depending on what you write. Creative writing is how you power devices, win fights and solve puzzles. It exports .txt files, because it's a text editor. Demo in 2 days now!
I think philosophy, particularly analytic philosophy, has so much in common with programming. For example, here is Carnap writing haskell in 1934.
In his paper “Why Philosophers Should Care About Computation Complexity” @ScottAaronson81 connects computational complexity to a whole host of philosophical questions. For example, does passing the turing test with an exponential algorithm count? scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.…
I’m immensely confused by the replies. Just as programmers think everyone knows what linux is, I live in a bubble thinking everyone knows what philosophy is. Rather than answer the original question let’s change it. Are there interesting works of philosophy about software?
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