Hosted the latest edition of Future of Code here in London on Thursday. So many bangers.

Delayed thread with snaps and demo videos!

Oscar (@ocuatrecasas) from @fermat_app built a node and wire interface for chaining language model calls + image identification + multiplayer user inputs

I have a bunch of sketchy interface ideas for using language models as epistemic rubber ducks, aka. reflective thinking partners🐥

They've been sitting in Figma for 8 months gathering dust! They all felt too obvious to me to be worth sharing...

maggieappleton.com/lm-sketchbook ...but I showed some folks recently who disagreed. Maybe they'll spark some novel ideas for others.

First is called Daemons and has a cast of characters who sit in the background while you write and suggest edits or improvements.

Devil's advocate, cheerleader, synthesiser, etc.

Did yet another glorious, playful, irreverent edition of the London Future of Coding meeting last night.

We’re low key, impractical, and not trying to invent the future of anything. Confused? That sounds about right.

Featuring talks by @Paul_Rony @TodePond @genmon @JosefiinaIda… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… We also have excellent wallpaper desktop game

https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1667244080324136972?s=20

1/ You show up at a discussion group where you’ve all read an article.

Everyone has their own highlights and notes.

You all “dump” your notes from your phones into the centre of the table. Everyone is looking at the same pile of ideas.

They start to self-organise into groups… 2/ You can then point at them, move them, discard them.

Some people’s notes merge together - they’re almost the same.

With a gesture you can make the notes arrange themselves along various axes: radical/conservative, emotional/logical…

New @tana_inc folks seem hungry for in-depth books on ontologies & schemas.
Initial reaction was... books are overkill? There's not much to know? Just google it? But then tried googling. And it is *noisy* and poorly curated out there.

A few recommendations: Original semantic web/structured data content does a good job of explaining ontologies in an accessible way.

This paper "Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology" (2001) covers almost all the essentials in ~23 pages cs.upc.edu/~jvazquez/teac…

1/ We've been working a new protocol at @hashintel

It's called the block protocol (but NOT about blockchain or NFTs!)

It allows you to build reusable blocks (aka. components) that are interchangeable across website/apps

It takes a minute to explain, but I’ve drawn pictures… 2/ Blocks are the fancy interactive elements you can add to most doc editors and websites nowadays – text, tables, checklists, images, embeds, etc.

You’ve seen these in apps like Notion, Wordpress Gutenberg, and Coda

@daretorant 1/ Oh so many favourites… where to begin!

@Nsousanis and their illustrated philosophy PhD(!) ‘Unflattening’ had an enourmous influence on me

@wendymac makes the best narrative diagrams and drawn journalism

@NearSitedMonkey won a literal genius grant for visual storytelling @daretorant @Nsousanis @wendymac @NearSitedMonkey 2/ @matteofarinella not only visually explains neuroscience, but critically researches comics/graphics as a science in itself

@visual_linguist explores it through a rigorous theoretical lens that helps you see the structures underneath how visual syntax works

Personal sketches of #roamcult's mental models are looking increasingly like the original Project Xanadu plans
@RoamResearch

😆 @azlenelza Not complaining at all, I love these

Compare Ted + Robert Smiths's "Back to the future" 2007 presentation - xanadu.net/XanaduSpace/bt…

https://twitter.com/azlenelza/status/1265837101825679363

An enormous thank you to the whole #WomenofReact2020 organiser team for yesterdays' event!

And to all the lovely React community members who came to hang out.

Thrilling to find so many other potato & metaphor lovers out in the React community. If anyone missed the talk, here's the recording of it:

Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today.

We have an epic collection going, check these out...

1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
@_jonesian @tomcritchlow 2. Buster Benson's "Piles" and "Codex" @buster