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Yeah, and it's really worth checking out https://dynamicland.org/ https://dynamicland.org/, because Bret Victor is actually doing this -- slash pointing the way

by jsomers 5mo ago

Yeah, and it's really worth checking out https://dynamicland.org/ https://dynamicland.org/, because Bret Victor is actually doing this -- slash pointing the way to what such a world could look like. It just seems like now might be a good time for specific smaller parts of that vision to be carved off and developed further. I say that largely because of the advances in multimodal AI, which maybe haven't been fully applied yet in this area.

smj-edison 5mo ago
And a shout-out to https://folk.computer/ https://folk.computer/ as well! They're not as far along in terms of feature parity, but they are open source, and exploring the space in other directions.
- kruffalon 5mo ago
  If you have any ins with this project would you mind asking them to add a line or 2 describing what it is about, or even a linked text in the start.txt file? Just a simple: > Folk Computer is a research & art project centered around designing new physical computing interfaces. From ./notes/tableshots.txt with a link towards the top would imo be quite helpful. (Sorry, this is just one of my pet peeves: needing to know what a project is about before being able to read about it is just terrible UX, although extremely common as we as humans tend to forget that we know things others don't)
  - smj-edison 5mo ago
    Thanks! I can pass it on. Would you say then that having an overview on the main page, with links for more details would be a better approach?
    - kruffalon 5mo ago
      I would say that simply expanding the first word of "hello -" into: > Hello, Folk Computer is a research & art project centered around designing new physical computing interfaces. [read more](./notes/tableshots.txt) Is more than sufficient, most of the website is for people who already know about the project. I'm just asking for a small part at the beginning for us who are new :)

by jsomers 5mo ago

smj-edison 5mo ago

And a shout-out to https://folk.computer/ https://folk.computer/ as well! They're not as far along in terms of feature parity, but they are open source, and exploring the space in other directions.

kruffalon 5mo ago
If you have any ins with this project would you mind asking them to add a line or 2 describing what it is about, or even a linked text in the start.txt file? Just a simple: > Folk Computer is a research & art project centered around designing new physical computing interfaces. From ./notes/tableshots.txt with a link towards the top would imo be quite helpful. (Sorry, this is just one of my pet peeves: needing to know what a project is about before being able to read about it is just terrible UX, although extremely common as we as humans tend to forget that we know things others don't)
- smj-edison 5mo ago
  Thanks! I can pass it on. Would you say then that having an overview on the main page, with links for more details would be a better approach?
  - kruffalon 5mo ago
    I would say that simply expanding the first word of "hello -" into: > Hello, Folk Computer is a research & art project centered around designing new physical computing interfaces. [read more](./notes/tableshots.txt) Is more than sufficient, most of the website is for people who already know about the project. I'm just asking for a small part at the beginning for us who are new :)