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vilterp | 2 months ago | on: Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment

Very neat. Would love to see events for each instrument laid out along a timeline!

vilterp | 5 years ago | on: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog

Hi, author here. Thank you so much for this unfudging! I knew I was fudging things up a bit, and I didn't really understand the relationships between Prolog, Datalog, Horn clauses, and first-order logic. This clears things up a lot, though I think I'll need to read it a couple more times for it to sink in! Thanks again.

vilterp | 5 years ago | on: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog

Oh hey Sam! Been a while! Thanks for reading man :)

vilterp | 9 years ago | on: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?

Really sad to hear this; you guys were doing really cool work.

vilterp | 10 years ago | on: Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16

Maybe the answer is for elm-html to put a cursor-state attribute on textual input elements, and have event handlers for selection change? Then you can have the cursor state in your atom if you need it without ports....

vilterp | 10 years ago | on: Compiler Errors for Humans

`elm-make --report=json MyFile.elm` gives the error messages as JSON; very easy to parse out line & col. It's how the vim plugin that there's a video of in the post was made.

vilterp | 11 years ago | on: Bret Victor: Seeing Spaces [video]

Yeah, I actually agree. Him just open sourcing the Stop Drawing Dead Fish tool for instance would move things forward a lot -- just to see how the internal data structures & algos work.

vilterp | 11 years ago | on: Bret Victor: Seeing Spaces [video]

Both the Light Table team (http://www.lighttable.com/2014/06/10/light-table-and-apples-...) and the Apple Swift lead (Playgrounds feature: http://nondot.org/sabre/) have explicictly cited Bret as an important influence — his ideas are certainly not going to waste.

vilterp | 14 years ago | on: Please Steal These webOS Features

Hopefully we can hope to see some of this good design thinking in Android, since the design lead of webOS, Matias Duarte, is now design lead at Android (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Duarte)