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Wait, this is the same Jon Paul as https://www.instagram.com/jonpaulsballs ... who does amazing things with geometry and hand-sewn spheres.

I've been mildly annoyed that every component-based front-end library's Hello World is a counter, with a button to increment the count. But it seems like no personal knowledge management systems have a way to actually embed an arbitrary component like that, with its state. It would be actually useful for games and counting reps in various contexts.

Maybe this will actually enable that?

A good reason to _not_ be snarky about these tools is that they can be helpful for people with certain dexterity disabilities.

We just opened signups for Cuttle, our browser-based 2D CAD project. Our beta community has made some cool designs for laser cutting, vinyl cutters (Cricut), pen plotters, and CNC.

The 4 points on the homepage are what set us apart from existing design software: live modifiers, reusable components, parametric design, and scripting. And being able to compose those elements non-destructively.

FYI: the information in this article is inaccurate. See the August 7th Forbes article for the correct information:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/08/07/webflow-w...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20636476

But sleeping on right apparently aggravates heartburn. (Is there some law of advice, that there is always equal and opposite advice?)

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/health/26really.html

I've been hosting a handful of WordPress sites for friends for years. I thought my setup on a shared host was secure enough, until some of them got this Japanese keyword hack. It's a major pain to follow these directions to clean a site out. Enough of a pain that I've been rewriting the sites with another CMS / site builder, with hosting that I don't have to manage.

Found this somewhat-cliackbaity take: The Most Dangerous Notion in “Reinventing Organizations” https://medium.com/@jessicajprentice/the-most-dangerous-noti...

... TLDR: the dangerous notion is that "teal" organization is something new, when in fact we have millennia of history to learn from.

What about something more fundamental? Do we really need layers of management? There are interesting examples of more-agile organizational structures examined in https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/

I'd prefer an art-bot that would playfully disperse dandelion seeds.

No thanks.

This is my first time building something up in a literate interactive doc like this. It's a really compelling platform!

Good docs and demos: https://docs.opencv.org/master/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html

If you have a 1080 HD projector and camera and 100" diagonal table, that's 22ppi in and out... OCR would be tough.

It's easy to live-edit the code in a piece of paper. Once you start to get used to it, it's really enjoyable to jump between altering physical materials, arranging papers to alter communication between the pages, and editing code within the pages.

Here's a demo of an interactive book about symmetry: https://twitter.com/mandy3284/status/951589414911721472

Lots of ideas: https://twitter.com/Dynamicland1

Talk from 2014 that previewed the vision: http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/

There's also the interplay of arranging papers, and live-editing the code in a particular piece of paper. In Dynamicland, the projector highlights printed code in green/red to visualize diffs.

You can sketch a UI element on the paper (eg a rectangle and token for a numerical slider), then go back to code the interactivity. Units in the code are inches on the table. Subtle things like that break you free from the laptop.

When you want to "commit" your code changes, you print a new version.

I think that section is clear. It's not a clone because Dynamicland is a building in Oakland. An open-source software project can port some of the experience, but to clone it you would need to establish a large physical space.

I'm excited about Paper Programs. I got to spend an afternoon in Dynamicland, and after exploring a couple hours I was sure that I wanted access to the system back home. Their response was "wait a couple years." Not everybody can make it to Oakland!

Dynamicland focuses on in-person collaboration. Maybe Paper Programs will explore tangible computing with remote collaboration.

I love tiny editors like this. I spent hours exploring a js1k project that rendered l-systems.

    define x (5 times)
    
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PS4 VR full setup looks like ~$850.

If it were an open dev platform I'd be considering it.

No, all styling is exposed and easy to override per-instance or globally. You just have to get in the mindset to do styling in JS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245298

Rebass does all styling inline. You can override per instance (pass in `style` prop), or "globally" via the React `context`. Example themes [1] can be seen in the demo [2] ("Config" dropdown in top right).

[1] https://github.com/jxnblk/rebass/tree/master/demo/configurat... [2] http://jxnblk.com/rebass/demo/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141807

(I work for the Grid.)

The Grid deserves criticism, but please focus what we actually promised and are starting to deliver.

James Seibel claims that our product was marketed as a general purpose thinking machine:

It isn’t going to replace software developers, and it isn’t going to allow you to build tech startups without an engineering team.

Nothing in our crowdfunding marketing, site, or video claims that we’re building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Before that line, he makes a fair summary of what the Grid was actually pitched to be:

Essentially a glorified Wordpress that easily integrates with social media and e-commerce, that auto-resizes for various screen sizes, and provides beautiful design automatically. Or at least this is the end goal, if they can work out all the bugs.

The challenge and potential in that are immense.

http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K7DCCGaesLpMQygtGg5 = Rock Paper Scissors arena battle

This is an important project. Communicating about complex systems is essential to human survival.

Scientists, policymakers, forest firefighters... all of them already use simulations to experiment with real-world systems. Sadly, these sims aren’t usually meant to be used or understood by us, the public — the very people those systems impact the most.

This may seem like a depressing outcome, but I took away a more hopeful message: evil systems can still be filled with good people. We just gotta be very, very clever, and compassionate, to help them find their goodness.

The output is generated, but the content is not walled: https://github.com/the-domains/vizualiphone

I'm reminded of Alex Grey's visionary art https://caudallure.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1217891347094....

Tweak image urls for bigger images:

Ibis: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Uj3hPFupok/VYIT6s_c9OI/AAAAAAAAAl... Seurat: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PK_bEYY91cw/VYIVBYw63uI/AAAAAAAAAl... Clouds: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FPDgxlc-WPU/VYIV1bK50HI/AAAAAAAAAl... Buildings: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XZ0i0zXOhQk/VYIXdyIL9kI/AAAAAAAAAm...

I'd love to experiment with this and video. I predict a nerdy music video soon, and a pop video appropriation soon after.

I do the selecting thing as well, and hate Wired for hijacking ⌘→ (sends you to next article).