(2022-10-20) TfTR Programmable Spatial Canvases

Tools-for-Thought Rocks session on programmable Spatial Canvas apps. See prev (2022-09-29) TfTR Spatial Canvases

Fermat (Pol)

• other projects, similar to Dynamicland https://batou.xyz/products
  • "augmented desk"
• this inspired Fermat
• doc = canvas?
• programmable
  • tied into git/hub
  • language: Arbor https://docs.fermat.ws/arbor-language-reference/statements
• has AI plugins
  • StableDiffusion
  • GPT-3 like chatbot
    • dialog/divergence... is this Engelbartian?
    • each statement is a node/card
• Jess Martin: much more approachable than ReplIt
• Hypercard inspired
• "excel for text"
• reminds Boris Mann of TiddlyWiki - drill down from pretty cards into substrate

Natto (Paul)

• JavaScript nuggets in cards on a canvas
• cards talk to each other
  • reactive: like spreadsheet calculation chaining
• "like a UI for JavaScript"
• but has queries/lists in a card, to give list-view instead of canvas
• hard (mentally) to share (consume) a canvas
  • personal view of someone else's canvas?
    • vscode?

misc

• tldraw

My meta-chew

• cf Computational Medium, Personal Cloud
• so many experiments, none of which talk to each other
• what's the architecture that provides some kind of interop, and what does that even mean?
  • just link?
  • composable?
• what's the bizmodel that supports this architecture?
  • charge for hosting a silo
  • patronage
  • p2p infrastructure to avoid hosting costs
  • if Bret Victor can't stay employed, can you?

meta-meta do I care? Maybe I just ignore all this and focus on

• my notebooks - flux.garden
• diagram/whiteboard tool, esp if it can be embedded in flux.garden
• code: stick with Python, use jupyter as REPL, learn Test Driven Development With Python better, maybe add vscode
  • lean into google sheets as spreadsheet widget, Colab Notebook, postgresql, steampipe
  • figure out something close to literate programming across those