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For me this is the perfect timing. Just this week I was fed up with my iPhone (and most of the Apple ecosystem) and bought a Google Pixel 10 Pro.

We need this for TypeScript.

It’s very hard to do tags in the physical world. You need to stick different colored post-its to things and do a full table scan (with your eyes) any time you want to process all d…

Best solution to date?

To me it seems obvious that code should be stored in a database rather than a hierarchical, text-based format. The main way we navigate and organize code is by folder hierarchies. …

.beat time or Swatch Internet Time is way better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

> As for SQL We should peel off SQL and get access to the underlying layers.

My dream is to make everything visualizable at runtime. I think all of computing becomes very simple and much less complex if we can do this. We are visualizing things in our head …

https://webkit.org/running-webkit/

I haven’t seen my desktop in years…

Meanwhile Windows still struggles with getting files to the bin.

Something cool however is you can actually build the open-source WebKit browser engine yourself and make closed-source Safari use your locally built version.

Interesting read. It’s amazing more people don’t use runtime variable value annotation tools like Wallaby.js, or a debugger. So much time spent mentally remembering what is in what…

This is why we need better tools like projectional code editors. There should be an editor toggle to inline functions temporarily. No more bouncing.

The real issue is plain text, and files and folders. File names, folder names/hierarchies, function names, class names are all _arbitrary_. You could randomize them all and your co…

I wish they would have one IDE for everything - what IntelliJ used to be.

> I think it’s a project that’d take 5+ years What are the major difficulties you see? Is this estimate for supporting all existing TS code...or as the OC said, a new language with…

Parse all the code with tree-sitter[1]. [1]: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

Code should generate diagrams automatically as you write it. Then you can see the complexity increase as you go, instead of looking back on a tangled mess.

I thought about building a transpiler from TypeScript to other languages as a learning tool. It would also scaffold out the project structure for each language. The idea would be n…

Local simulation + deterministic record-replay.

Code should be more like a children's popup book with little tabs to pull on to make things move around. When I look at a foreign piece of code I want to see all the runtime values…

> There's many more akin projects listed in https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors/blob/ma ... Awesome link! How did you find that link btw? I feel like I scoured the…

I think we need to liberate ourselves from the "folders of files of text" way of coding. We really shouldn't ever have to think about where to put things. Each function should be s…

I wish it was open-source.