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  1. Just read an interesting article [1] and watched a talk [2] about making digital drawings/sketches/visualizations dynamic and reactive, more or less by directly interacting with them on the virtual canvas rather than writing code.

    I am a bit amazed and especially impressed by the software presented in the talk [3]. It lets one procedurally build (probably) any imaginable vector visualization by drawing shapes and hooking them and their properties up to input data or other shapes.

    [1] Ink&Switch – Inkbase - Programmable Ink (2022): inkandswitch.com/inkbase/
    [2] Bret Victor – Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (2013): vimeo.com/66085662
    [3] Bret Victor – Additional Notes on "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations" (2013): worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicV

    #inkandswitch #BretVictor #visualization #diagram #proceduralgraphics

  2. Second day wresting with PouchDB and local first setup. With more granular data types it seems quite promising! I managed to sync from offline to online and back #localfirst @couchdb @pouchdb #crdt #inkandswitch

  3. Second day wresting with PouchDB and local first setup. With more granular data types it seems quite promising! I managed to sync from offline to online and back #localfirst @couchdb @pouchdb #crdt #inkandswitch

  4. A day spent on testing how PouchDB syncs for my habits app, to finally realize that my data shapes are not suitable for local first setup. But also I don’t want to overengineer with some CRDT solutions like Automerge, because it will complicate querying data. For now gonna try small documents approach #localfirst @couchdb @pouchdb #crdt #inkandswitch

  5. A day spent on testing how PouchDB syncs for my habits app, to finally realize that my data shapes are not suitable for local first setup. But also I don’t want to overengineer with some CRDT solutions like Automerge, because it will complicate querying data. For now gonna try small documents approach #localfirst @couchdb @pouchdb #crdt #inkandswitch

  6. "Local First: the Secret Master Plan"
    is a lovely presentation linked from today's newsletter by #inkandswitch, with a demo of their inspiring Patchwork system - watchable via:

    inkandswitch.com/newsletter/di

    #localfirst

  7. "Local First: the Secret Master Plan"
    is a lovely presentation linked from today's newsletter by #inkandswitch, with a demo of their inspiring Patchwork system - watchable via:

    inkandswitch.com/newsletter/di

    #localfirst

  8. "beelay-iroh-chat" is a proof-of-concept chat app exploring #beelay & #keyhive from #InkAndSwitch with #iroh and #tauri:
    github.com/Zyell/beelay-iroh-c

    This is folks from symplasma.org working on this.
    10/x

  9. "beelay-iroh-chat" is a proof-of-concept chat app exploring #beelay & #keyhive from #InkAndSwitch with #iroh and #tauri:
    github.com/Zyell/beelay-iroh-c

    This is folks from symplasma.org working on this.
    10/x

  10. @heckj @ctietze Thanks Christian, I found Joe's library when searching for CRDT libraries with Swift support. Automerge looks great, will definitely experiment with that at some point. The Ink & Switch research prototypes built on top of Automerge look amazing #inkandswitch.

  11. @heckj @ctietze Thanks Christian, I found Joe's library when searching for CRDT libraries with Swift support. Automerge looks great, will definitely experiment with that at some point. The Ink & Switch research prototypes built on top of Automerge look amazing #inkandswitch.

  12. #inkandswitch has a new lab notebook page out about Patchwork - this time about universal comments! Very interesting from an engineering perspective!

    What I like as a future hint - a common inbox for comments. The modularity they‘re working towards here might enable some very fluid interaction mechanisms and I am all for that.

  13. A very nice description of part of what the foundation of an outliner is, from #inkAndSwitch article on their prototype embark:

    „At the same time, the exact meaning of the outline hierarchy is left ambiguous: it can express containment, sequences, annotations, and more. The meaning is implied through the content.“

    inkandswitch.com/embark/

    It's this flexible ambiguity coupled with just enough strongly meaningful hierarchy that gives outliners their power in flexible thought work.

    #tft #pkm

  14. A nice little video walkthrough of Embark, featured in the latest Ink & Switch essay (inkandswitch.com/embark/) on dynamic documents: youtube.com/watch?v=mGnez4lA9f

    #inkandswitch

  15. A nice little video walkthrough of Embark, featured in the latest Ink & Switch essay (inkandswitch.com/embark/) on dynamic documents: youtube.com/watch?v=mGnez4lA9f

    #inkandswitch

  16. Have any #InkAndSwitch projects resulted in shipped products? Direct features added to existing shipping products?