There is something about artist-programmers, the way they’re caught using general purpose languages and tools in specific, unusual circumstances. Many…
Languages are Languages – follow up
There are some interesting comments to my “languages are languages” post that I wanted to highlight — a disadvantage of…
Languages are languages
Ian Bogost has an interesting argument that computer languages are not languages, but systems. He starts off arguing that learning…
The tyranny of deadline extensions
At least in my world, it has become normal and expected for deadlines to be extended by around a week.…
Workshop output
The Text live coding workshop went really well, surprisingly well considering it was the first time anyone apart from me…
Text update and source
I’ve updated Text a bit to improve the visual representation of higher order types (you’d probably need to full screen…
Test run of Text
I’ve been rather busy writing lately, my PhD funding runs out in April, and I hope by then I’ll have…
Text
Text is a experimental visual language under development. Code and docs will appear here at some point, but all I…
Meaning of Hack
This post dedicated to Olga, who went missing a few days ago. (she came back, after three weeks out in the…
Some videos
First a quick screencast of my new live coding environment called Text, which is I think a good proof of…