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We're finally getting there. The model of web notebooks look a lot like Hypercard stacks in terms of usability; there's only missing someone packing them in and
by TuringTest 7mo ago
We're finally getting there. The model of web notebooks look a lot like Hypercard stacks in terms of usability; there's only missing someone packing them in and easy-to-use distribution and sharing environment that does not depend on users installing their own web server.
And if that package includes some reasonable local LLM model, creating simple programs by end users could be even easier than it ever was with Hypercard.
- trvv 7mo agoPWAs could have been so good. redbean/llamafile might be the closest, though.
- __patchbit__ 7mo agoThe enduse developer experience sees the 17e and Neo paired with spoken instruction AI prompts going to the iPhone that effects the Hypercard network aware environment do the thing on the laptop.
- celsius1414 7mo agoI suspect that will get you trapped in a Myst linking book if you’re not careful! ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
- scroot 7mo agoI didn't mean "like hypercard" so literally in this manner. What I meant was, a computing environment that seems to blend seamlessly into the wider operating system, and that is able to sufficiently blur the line between end users and "programmers" (here called "authors"). Critical to this capability was the ability to "pop the hood" easily and mess with what was going on underneath. All of today's computing is fundamentally based on a strong division between programmers and users. That division has only grown more stark with time. The dominance of Unix is partly to blame, in my view.