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Tweet-a-Program

31 points by lelf 7y ago

dang 7y ago
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337805
mathnode 7y ago
As a pico8 user myself, I love the the tweetcarts: https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweetcart?src=hashtag_click https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweetcart?src=hashtag_click Some amazing stuff.
nudpiedo 7y ago
It could have just been “pick a computable algorithm that our framework’s UI can render”. Until I don’t see a meaningful program, which answers to a few use cases of a user, I wouldn’t take that serious. Edit: And the abuse of a framework is also something misleading, it is like saying “make an OS in a tweet” and then tweeting: “git clone linux.git && make all && kexec kernel”
- CJefferson 7y ago
  This comment doesn't feel useful. Do you only want to see bytes I can pop in the bootsector?
  - tkifnn 7y ago
    This comment feels even less useful.
  - nudpiedo 7y ago
    Maybe you should define what a program is, which is something over an OS, below a plug-in to a framework and interfaces with a user in order to provide a value or interface. Edit: If my comment is unuseful, how useful is a non standalone program which represents a graph of random values for no purpose at all?
moreati 7y ago
For anyone else wondering https://twitter.com/pythontap https://twitter.com/pythontap was created in 2014, apparently for the same purpose, but there was no follow through. As an impromptu meeting point, I suggest https://twitter.com/hashtag/pythontap https://twitter.com/hashtag/pythontap
onion2k 7y ago
A similar idea for JS canvas 'art' - https://www.dwitter.net/ https://www.dwitter.net/
jedimastert 7y ago
You know, I used Wolfram Mathematia for many years in college and even a little beyond, and I just learned today that the language is called Wolfram and the enviroment is Mathmatica. Huh.
- ms013 7y ago
  That’s a relatively recent change. When I first learned MMA around 1995, it was just Mathematica. It was still just Mathematica 10 years later. Then in the last decade they decided to give the language a name independent of Mathematica: I assume with the rollout of their other services/tools beyond the desktop client that use the same language.
  - jedimastert 7y ago
    Cool. I haven't followed the language in the last 5 years or so, so that makes me feel better.
bastawhiz 7y ago
I designed and built a language (and interpreter) for something just like this many years ago. You'd tweet a program at it and it would render and tweet back the output. https://github.com/mattbasta/graphicsbc https://github.com/mattbasta/graphicsbc It was originally written in Python but ported to JavaScript for performance later on (though the bot was never ported)

31 points by lelf 7y ago

dang 7y ago

A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337805

As a pico8 user myself, I love the the tweetcarts: https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweetcart?src=hashtag_click https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweetcart?src=hashtag_click Some amazing stuff.

nudpiedo 7y ago

It could have just been “pick a computable algorithm that our framework’s UI can render”. Until I don’t see a meaningful program, which answers to a few use cases of a user, I wouldn’t take that serious. Edit: And the abuse of a framework is also something misleading, it is like saying “make an OS in a tweet” and then tweeting: “git clone linux.git && make all && kexec kernel”

CJefferson 7y ago
This comment doesn't feel useful. Do you only want to see bytes I can pop in the bootsector?
- tkifnn 7y ago
  This comment feels even less useful.
- nudpiedo 7y ago
  Maybe you should define what a program is, which is something over an OS, below a plug-in to a framework and interfaces with a user in order to provide a value or interface. Edit: If my comment is unuseful, how useful is a non standalone program which represents a graph of random values for no purpose at all?

moreati 7y ago

For anyone else wondering https://twitter.com/pythontap https://twitter.com/pythontap was created in 2014, apparently for the same purpose, but there was no follow through. As an impromptu meeting point, I suggest https://twitter.com/hashtag/pythontap https://twitter.com/hashtag/pythontap

onion2k 7y ago

A similar idea for JS canvas 'art' - https://www.dwitter.net/ https://www.dwitter.net/

jedimastert 7y ago

You know, I used Wolfram Mathematia for many years in college and even a little beyond, and I just learned today that the language is called Wolfram and the enviroment is Mathmatica. Huh.

ms013 7y ago
That’s a relatively recent change. When I first learned MMA around 1995, it was just Mathematica. It was still just Mathematica 10 years later. Then in the last decade they decided to give the language a name independent of Mathematica: I assume with the rollout of their other services/tools beyond the desktop client that use the same language.
- jedimastert 7y ago
  Cool. I haven't followed the language in the last 5 years or so, so that makes me feel better.

bastawhiz 7y ago

I designed and built a language (and interpreter) for something just like this many years ago. You'd tweet a program at it and it would render and tweet back the output. https://github.com/mattbasta/graphicsbc https://github.com/mattbasta/graphicsbc It was originally written in Python but ported to JavaScript for performance later on (though the bot was never ported)