You Are in a Box
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You Are in a Box
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#2I feel this the most on mobile platforms where the phone really should be acting as your agent but instead we're stuck with all these apps.
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#3I feel this the most on mobile platforms where the phone really should be acting as your agent but instead we're stuck with all these apps.
interesting. how would you make it better?
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#4I like this post but the whole thing is a tease for an unwritten next article
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#5I feel this the most on mobile platforms where the phone really should be acting as your agent but instead we're stuck with all these apps.
It is worse on phones, but most desktop computing feels like this too, at least when you're not at a command line. I've been trying to puzzle out what I'd like computing to look like instead, but I don't get far beyond a concept of "objects" and "actions" as fundamental building blocks. How to actually expose this... yeah, it's tough.
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#6I like this post but the whole thing is a tease for an unwritten next article
lol yeah it absolutely is
originally i had them both in one article but it was getting to be really quite long and i am still thinking through what i want to say in the follow-up
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#7I feel this the most on mobile platforms where the phone really should be acting as your agent but instead we're stuck with all these apps.
It is worse on phones, but most desktop computing feels like this too, at least when you're not at a command line. I've been trying to puzzle out what I'd like computing to look like instead, but I don't get far beyond a concept of "objects" and "actions" as fundamental building blocks. How to actually expose this... yeah, it's tough.
have you seen https://pharo.org/ by chance? it's a smalltalk IDE built in smalltalk, which means that the whole thing is editable at runtime. it's hard to describe before you see it, https://pharo.org/features has some demos.
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#8>
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
—Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment
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#9Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
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#10It's a highly-dimensional box, isn't it? This age-old tension between interface standards and business/innovation speed.
Everything is a file is a good example of a fundamental and major standard that lasts till today and even though IPC kind of didn't make it all the way, I think about the core UNIX philosophy and Alan Kay's thoughts around as very, very accurate in terms of where we've ended up and what the likely ways out look like to me.