Tag: bret-victor
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Diversions #6: The Grapes of September
In Diversions #6 I write about making grape jelly, canning projects, a trip to Virginia, and share some links.
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Andrew Kim goes to Apple
Andrew Kim, who I mentioned back when he rebranded Microsoft and eventually was hired by them, has moved again — this time to Apple. Somehow I missed that he was at Tesla. Jon Porter for The Verge: After three and a half years at the company, Kim moved to Tesla, where he contributed to the…
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Dynamicland
Dynamicland: We are inventing a new computational medium where people work together with real objects in the real world, not alone with virtual objects on a screen. From Bret Victor and others. Swoon.
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The Web of Alexandria
Bret Victor: We, as a species, are currently putting together a universal repository of knowledge and ideas, unprecedented in scope and scale. Which information-handling technology should we model it on? The one that‘s worked for 4 billion years and is responsible for our existence? Or the one that‘s led to the greatest intellectual tragedies in…
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Bret Victor: Seeing Spaces
Bret Victor designs tools. Tools that help you see, or measure and analyze, what you’re working on while you’re working on them. I’ve mentioned him before. This latest presentation by Victor describes a space that can help people who make things do the same things in the real world as Victor’s tools have helped people…
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Flowhub
Flowhub is "peer-to-peer full-stack visual programming for your fingers". In other words, you can build applications and services by tapping and dragging and pinching rather than by typing and typing and typing. Pretty cool stuff. The idea of building applications using a workflow-based graph isn’t new. From Bret Victor’s "The Future of Programming" at this…
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Bret Victor: The Future of Programming
Bret Victor: The Future of Programming is a presentation he did for Dropbox’s DBX conference earlier in July. Victor goes back-in-time to 1973 to give his presentation on what the future of programming could be. A perfect illustration for all of us that work on computers to know that we simply have not figured everything…
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Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
Bret Victor: Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan system, I felt I should respond with two thoughts about learning: How could I possibly avoid linking to this? See also: Inventing on Principle.
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Light Table, a new IDE concept
Chris Granger about Light Table: Light Table is based on a very simple idea: we need a real work surface to code on, not just an editor and a project explorer. We need to be able to move things around, keep clutter down, and bring information to the foreground in the places we need it…