akkartik on Station

author: akkartik

2024-07-22 19:58 UTC

Reflecting after doing something difficult: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/112831781974687588

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2024-07-03 12:47 UTC

Coming up with a paper notation for kids so they can think about programming without filling up short term memory with irrelevancies like the order to put numbers in. https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/112708494215840560

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2024-04-13 18:42 UTC

My first app on a new, hopefully convivial platform: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-04-13-devlog

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2024-03-31 17:14 UTC

All the 1-D cellular automata: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/702311/all-the-1-d-cellular-automata

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2024-02-24 00:40 UTC

A quick and dirty charting library for your computer or phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/686788/lots-of-charts

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2024-02-21 04:33 UTC

A paper computer implemented in a silicon computer: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/685707/a-little-programming-game

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2024-02-16 23:14 UTC

Dynamically adjusting the ticks on the x- and y-axis of a plot as I pan around and zoom in and out on a mobile device.

https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/678890/new-version-after-51-days

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2024-02-02 19:31 UTC

This might be the most excellent thing I've read in a while: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/02/02/nimble-nationality-will-define-state-capacity/index.html

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2024-01-30 15:42 UTC

Pong + Yin-Yang = Pin-Pong

https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/673935/pong-wars

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2023-12-27 07:17 UTC

An equation plotter in 90 lines, written on my phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/656473/building-an-equation-plotter

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2023-12-19 00:28 UTC

A voice recorder you can tweak the source code for right on your Android phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/652184/a-voice-recorder-in-150-lines-of-code

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2023-11-23 21:09 UTC

Lua Console: create little programs on desktop or mobile devices https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

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2023-08-04 21:20 UTC

This is the most insightful talk I've watched in recent memory: https://archive.org/details/finding-meaning

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2023-07-07 06:49 UTC

Hands-on with my Freewheeling Apps: https://spectra.video/videos/watch/36f75e1c-4530-4f43-ba32-9a73aa40d0f3 (video; 20 minutes)

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2023-05-23 06:21 UTC

A talk summarizing my past year: http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

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2023-04-22 03:06 UTC

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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2023-02-13 07:04 UTC

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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2023-01-24 05:47 UTC

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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2022-12-30 03:27 UTC

2022 summary: A year of freewheeling apps http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

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2022-11-28 07:26 UTC

A Lua-based markup language: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love

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2022-11-19 19:32 UTC

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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2022-10-17 07:32 UTC

Live-coding using LÖVE: https://spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBbsqKXGhGzwT (video; 5 minutes)

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2022-08-27 16:49 UTC

A 4-minute video about my project to replace debuggers with print statements: https://handmade.network/snippet/1561

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2022-08-23 23:31 UTC

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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2022-08-22 23:52 UTC

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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2022-08-04 19:26 UTC

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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2022-07-28 01:38 UTC

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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2022-07-03 00:51 UTC

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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2022-06-06 06:53 UTC

An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings: http://akkartik.name/lines.html

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2022-02-11 08:05 UTC

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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2022-02-07 01:55 UTC

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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2021-12-26 07:20 UTC

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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2021-12-02 11:06 UTC

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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2021-12-01 03:30 UTC

Preparing for Advent of Code in Teliva: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-11-30 (video; 15 minutes)

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2021-11-14 22:26 UTC

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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2021-09-27 05:59 UTC

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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2021-08-16 06:31 UTC

A network-less, read-only browser built up from machine code: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-08-15

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2021-07-30 20:26 UTC

Rendering arbitrary images on the 256-color Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106671394323266954

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2021-06-24 04:56 UTC

Syntax sugar in the Mu shell: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-23

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2021-06-16 04:17 UTC

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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2021-06-10 05:53 UTC

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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2021-06-01 05:09 UTC

New 2-minute video: referential transparency atop an imperative substrate. https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-31

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2021-05-20 17:06 UTC

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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2021-05-18 06:54 UTC

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

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2021-05-16 01:59 UTC

My computer now prints a call stack when it crashes: gemini://akkartik.flounder.online/2021-05-15.gmi

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2021-05-09 19:37 UTC

Don't called them signed ints and unsigned ints. Call them ints and addresses. Most of us don't care about the increased range of integers yielded by that final extra bit. But addresses sometimes need to set it. And we never want to think of addresses as negative.

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2021-05-08 04:30 UTC

The Mu computer now supports Lisp macros in the prototyping environment: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106195814023586904

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2021-05-06 03:00 UTC

Thinking about how computers evolved sandboxing models: gemini://akkartik.flounder.online/2021-05-05.gmi

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2021-05-04 01:03 UTC

@martin Do notifications include only top-level logs, not replies? My feed doesn't include replies to my own posts or replies that mention me.

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2021-05-03 02:15 UTC

I just made a website on Flounder: gemini://akkartik.flounder.online/index.gmi Feels like I'm back in the '90s.

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2021-05-02 03:22 UTC

How can I select an image to upload that looks ok after ASCII conversion?

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2021-05-02 02:17 UTC

I'm new to Gemini. What happens to my account here when my certificate expires? Is there a way for me to swap certificates?

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2021-05-02 02:17 UTC

Hello world!

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