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Month: March 2013

  • Winer's Back!

    This is really good news. Dave Winer finally comes out with a decent outliner in the browser. I’ve been looking for one for a long time. (Thought of trying to write it too, but it’s not my speciality. Now you get one from the world’s biggest Outlining evangelist.) This is also great news for Winer…

  • Bret Victor Showreel

    Bret Victor is one of the few programmers for whom it makes sense to release a showreel.

  • Elm Lang

    I must confess, I’m very intrigued by Elm-Lang. For me there are four virtues : 1) FRP. All the attempts I’ve seen to graft FRP onto existing languages have looked clunky to me – ahem … Trellis? – Requiring the explicit definition of special types of fields. This is the kind of thing that I think needs…

  • SocialCalc and Javascript

    Dan Bricklin gives an update on WikiCalc / SocialCalc (the browser-based spreadsheet he wrote). It seems to be having a new lease of life as a web-app embedded in native Android / iOS apps. Nice! Also some interesting news about javascript.