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👋 I build simple, low-maintenance programs that reward curiosity about their internals.
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A talk summarizing my past year: http://akkartik.name/freewheeling
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A little app to draw graphs: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love I've wanted something like this for a long time. Intended for small graphs where laying things out by hand is not too painful, and it's nice that things don't move around every time I make a change, as happens with graphviz (https://graphviz.org). The file format is also amenable to git; no long lines, and adding new nodes or edges doesn't reorder unrelated nodes and edges.
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This might be the most mind-bending 20 minutes of my life: https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is. I wanted more, so I'm watching 1.5 hours at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6CQCbk2ro
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I just figured out how to add tests in my "code as a map" programming environment: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109742488349122478
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2022 summary: A year of freewheeling apps http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22
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A Lua-based markup language: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love
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Has anyone heard of stack people vs queue people? I don't know where I got it from, but it's been an enduring part of my self-image for a decade now that I'm a stack person. When something new pops up, a queue continues what they were doing. A stack switches. Obviously this is a spectrum, but I find it very easy to rationalize that the new tasks are "quick". Anyway, being a stack is hard with a new project. Every 2 minutes I discover something broken, and now I have to resist working on it.v
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Live-coding using LÖVE: https://spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBbsqKXGhGzwT (video; 5 minutes)
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A 4-minute video about my project to replace debuggers with print statements: https://handmade.network/snippet/1561
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Weird, I just added hyperlinks to my text editor in 35 lines of code: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines-and-links/commit/c81bedca8dddv. Some caveats, but still. This feels like a super power.
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For the Handmade Network Wheel Reinvention Jam last week I tried to come up with some tools to help with debug by print: https://handmade.network/p/283/bifold-text
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More on my note-taking app, including a command palette and commands for managing a graph of notes: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108766067153506592 Still no release. It's still crashing once a day or so. (Never loses data, tho.)
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I've been building a note-taking app for the past month, and feeling the pressure to show at least a little bit about it even if it's not released yet: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-pensieve-2022-07-27 (video; 5 mins)
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I've been working on a text editor where you can also draw line drawings. Since I put it out I've been getting a trickle of feature requests. Suddenly the need to say no is very real, and I need to make good decisions. I've been using 2 escape hatches: 1. Forks. Somebody proposed an alternative system for drawing polygons that was actually quite self-consistent and had complementary strengths and weaknesses. We don't have to pick one, here's a fork: https://github.com/akkartik/lines-polygon-experiment 2. Add-ons as separate applications. Some people want an exporter to markdown SVG. But most won't. Why complicate the codebase for everyone. Instead: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108580451364837131
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An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings: http://akkartik.name/lines.html
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A zettelkasten app built in Teliva, the rugged platform for sandboxed, hackable text-mode apps: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10 (video; 4 minutes)
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I gave a talk at FOSDEM a few hours ago: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2022-01-16-fosdem Try out the project I describe there: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
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Running untrusted apps more flexibly and simply: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-12-25 (video; 2 minutes) Programming languages assume you trust all code you run. Browsers assume you trust all network access from websites you visit. With Teliva I'm exploring other approaches in search of a sandboxing model that's both more flexible and easier to understand/trust. (Look for the easter egg involving your favorite protocol.) Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
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There's a Review Jam happening this Advent. Review somebody's project, try to complete a small task, maybe share a video of how it went. Day 2 is my project, Teliva: https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-2-brutalist-convivial-computing
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Preparing for Advent of Code in Teliva: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-11-30 (video; 15 minutes)
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I have a new project: a platform for sharing Lua apps so they can be uniformly edited and modified by anybody using them. https://github.com/akkartik/teliva 2-minute video: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2021-11-14
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I just installed Lagrange on a new machine. How can I post as myself on Station from there? I see a way to import a User Certificate but no way to export? Is this even the right approach to pursue?
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A network-less, read-only browser built up from machine code: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-08-15
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Rendering arbitrary images on the 256-color Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106671394323266954
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Syntax sugar in the Mu shell: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-23
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Sumeet Agarwal and I solve an Advent of Code problem in Mu: https://archive.org/details/2021-06-02-akkartik-sumeet (video; 100 minutes)
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Live-coding Fizzbuzz on my Lisp-based environment built up from machine code: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-09
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New 2-minute video: referential transparency atop an imperative substrate. https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-31
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The Mu shell's error-handling is much improved. Back now to my plan from 3 years ago: a prototyping environment that encourages people to write tests so the prototype can eventually be thrown away and rewritten.
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A new 3.5-minute video on my latest bit of programming, some ideas on using animation in the debugging experience: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-17