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Freewheeling Apps

A new, more convivial way of engaging with software. Reward curiosity above all., Easy for anyone to build and modify., Constantly rework and remix, jumping to new forks when breaking compatibility., Version control to share naked code without package boundaries., The fluidity of Lisp and Forth with the collaborativeness of Ruby and Javascript.

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Episodes

  1. James Boyd White, "Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law"

    In which I read out every word of James Boyd White's 1985 paper, "Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life" which spawned the field of Constitutive Rhetoric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutive_rhetoric

  2. 2025-01-19: Infrastructure for Graphical Debugging

    Further experiments in avoiding the terminal. Source code for the right side: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/template-live-editor2 Source code for the left side: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love

  3. 2024-09-29: Browsing a space of 8 programs

    A little toy for running one of 8 programs or comparing two similar programs. The app and its source code: https://akkartik.name/curio1.love

  4. Hands-on with Freewheeling Apps

    What it's like to program my Freewheeling Apps. Sequel to http://akkartik.name/freewheeling.

  5. 2023-07-06: Hands-on with Freewheeling Apps

    What it's like to program my Freewheeling Apps. Sequel to http://akkartik.name/freewheeling.

  6. Using computers more freely and safely

    Manifesto for Freewheeling Apps, which are easy to try out, easy to modify, and easy to share. http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

  7. Using computers more freely and safely

    Manifesto for Freewheeling Apps, which are easy to try out, easy to modify, and easy to share. Transcript and links: http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

  8. 2022-10-16: Live-coding using LÖVE

    In this episode I'm experimenting with building live programs: programs that can be modified as they run, without needing to be restarted. It's surprising how little code it takes.

  9. 2022-08-27: Bifold Text

    An idea I riffed on during Handmade Network's Wheel Reinvention Jam: https://handmade.network/p/283/bifold-text. Makes debug by print more ergonomic by adding a little bit of structure to source code that tooling is aware of: markers for prints in...

  10. 2022-10-16: Live-coding using LÖVE

    In this episode I'm experimenting with building live programs: programs that can be modified as they run, without needing to be restarted. It's surprising how little code it takes. https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love

  11. 2022-08-29: Search, hyperlinks and cross-links in Pensieve.love

    I just created a Peertube channel. To mark the occasion, here's a short video of me using my note-taking app using a couple of recent features I haven't mentioned before. https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pensieve.love

  12. 2021-12-21: Navigating links in a text-mode browser

    Using my Teliva environment (https://github.com/akkartik/teliva) to build a small, hackable text-mode Gemini browser (https://gemini.circumlunar.space) in Lua.

  13. Why everyone needs to know some coding: last-mile sandboxing

    My talk at FOSDEM, 2022-01-16 Main page for the talk, including video of Q&A: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

  14. 2021-11-30: Preparing for Advent of Code with Teliva

    I plan to use my new Teliva environment for Lua programs (https://github.com/akkartik/teliva) to solve Advent of Code problems this year. Here's a little dress-rehearsal using a problem from last year.

  15. 2021-02-24: Drilling into programs on the Mu computer

    Beginnings of a high-level language for a Mu computer. I'm building the shell from the ground up to include a trace of computations that a human can browse and drill down into to arbitrary levels of detail. Main project page: https://github.com/a...

  16. 2021-07-30: Images on the Mu computer

    So far the Mu computing environment consists only of textual elements, even though application programs can render graphics. In this episode I show some initial ideas on working with images as part of the environment. Main project page: https://g...

  17. 2021-06-23: Syntax sugar in the Mu shell

    The Mu computer boots into a shell environment running a Lisp-based language. Lisp isn't an ideal syntax for a shell, particularly one with just 120 characters of horizontal space. This episode describes two features to make simple programs as eas...

  18. 2021-08-15: A network-less browser built up from machine code

    I couldn't search all of the history of https://futureofcoding.org/community so I built a browser for its offline backups. All the way up from machine code. 256 colors, no file system, no networking. Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik...

  19. 2021-06-09: Live-coding Fizz Buzz

    The Mu computer's prototyping environment can now edit functions after defining them. This enables me to use it for longer sessions. Thanks to Tiddlywiki for inspiring the function selection mechanism, which tends to show the most recently used f...

  20. 2022-07-27: A new note-taking app

    I've been building a note-taking app for myself. This is an early demo of it.

  21. 2020-12-24: booting up without a kernel

    Beginnings of a bootloader for the Mu computer, which is built up from machine code and intended to be taken apart. In this episode we start moving off our dependency on a third-party OS kernel. Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

  22. 2020-04-20: Mu

    2-minute video of the Mu project for the Future of Coding forum (https://futureofcoding.org) Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

  23. 2020-05-29: A text-mode paginator from scratch

    2-minute video of the Mu project for the Future of Coding forum (https://futureofcoding.org) Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

  24. 2020-07-25: beginnings of a spreadsheet for trees

    2-minute video of the Mu project for the Future of Coding forum (https://futureofcoding.org) Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

  25. 2020-09-02: tests for printing to screen

    2-minute video of the Mu project for the Future of Coding forum (https://futureofcoding.org) Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

  26. 2020-09-20: visualizing postfix notation

    2-minute video of the Mu project for the Future of Coding forum (https://futureofcoding.org) This episode is inspired by: LoGlo (https://loglo.app/2020-06-16), Brief (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MNcA2dpts), Main project page: https://git...

  27. 2020-10-10: generalizing nested function calls

    A live-updating environment for a postfix language, built up from machine code. Supports user-defined functions that you can expand to inspect the internals of. Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

  28. 2020-10-20: defining functions

    A live-updating structured editor for a spreadsheet-inspired postfix language, built up from machine code, and intended to be taken apart. Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu

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A new, more convivial way of engaging with software. Reward curiosity above all., Easy for anyone to build and modify., Constantly rework and remix, jumping to new forks when breaking compatibility., Version control to share naked code without package boundaries., The fluidity of Lisp and Forth with the collaborativeness of Ruby and Javascript.

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