2D canvases have a whole dimension spare, so why not make it semantically rich? Here's a 3D 'underlay' in tldraw — 2D control plane, 3D feedback.

Depth + movement makes a whole class of information legible.

github.com/OrionReed/tldr…

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Are you interested in programming UIs that make programs feel more dynamic and alive?

Join us at LIVE, the research workshop about live programming! (submissions due July 7)

liveprog.org

Personal backstory on why LIVE matters to me:

Back in 2018 I was starting to…

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Moldable Inspector for Common Lisp based on CLOG
by Konrad Hinsen (🐘 @[email protected])

#MoldableDevelopment is neither hard nor confined to #GToolkit . You just need to want it. The opportunities are not that far afterwards.

A demo:
diode.zone/w/5ac43123-91f…

Code:
codeberg.org/khinsen/clog-m…

Naming names, Ed Zitron calls out Prabhakar Raghavan for ruining Google Search. Many of these tech execs are like ESPN sports prognosticators who are almost always wrong but somehow keep their spot on television as an 'expert.'

wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…

Whenever I agree to do things for free I always get treated a lot worse. Sometimes payment is not just helpful for feeling like time is valued it also means you get treated better. 🤔

We’re hiring our 5th full-time engineer/designer at Val Town

🏙️ Brooklyn, NY
💰 $150,000 USD
📈 0.5-2% equity

Come work with me Tom MacWright André Terron & Max McDonnell!

Livestreaming with Steve Krouse starting in 5 minutes (3pm BST / 10am EST)

We're building a tiny plant watering app and using Val Town as the backend. A good example of building your own tiny home-cooked apps.

Stream here: youtube.com/watch?v=kJTeys…

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Another excellent talk from Jack Rusher
I'm excited to learn which foundational discipline I'm doing wrong next year.

A Stop-motion animation setup. Each frame of an animated drawing is materialized via a pen plotter carrying a needle tool across a slab of damp clay. After inscribing lines, colored clay slip is applied. After repeating this process 24 times, one second of animation is created.

I still laugh about Instagram censoring these because they supposedly violated the terms of service…

In Paris, just 4.3% -- 4.3%!! -- of the trips within the colored areas now occur in private cars.

Source: institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-tr…

I was at a conference and a speaker dismissed my question by saying that I should check out the work of David Ho. 😵‍💫

I've converted my long thread of curated classic HCI demo videos into a mini-site with authentic period styling. :)
jackrusher.com/classic-ux/

📢📢I'm looking for a new job!📢📢

Elixir/Ruby/SQL some JavaScript - open to more. Experienced tech leader (Senior Staff, also experienced managing people!)
Product-minded, collaborative - loving OSS, the community & giving presentations.

More:
pragtob.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/loo…

Today I was able to weave a line from Myron Krueger in a talk I gave : Computation is the medium of our lifetimes - it’s not just a technical medium but a cultural medium as well. We should explore the culture of computation.

Jack Rusher One of the first tutorials in our 'Sketching with Hardware' course still requires students to wire up a 555 circuit on a breadboard. It's a great exercise for reading datasheets, translating circuit diagrams to wiring, and understanding analog/digital ICs

hci.ur.de/projects/swh

Thinking about how I was taught to approach circuit design as a young electrical engineer, leaving me with the probably useless knowledge of how to solve hundreds of problems with the same IC…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer…