#malleablesoftware — Public Fediverse posts

#TheNextInternet

An interconnected self-configuring, self-addressing, robust, redundant, local-first, store & forward, delay & disruption tolerant, transport layer agnostic network over lines & peers owned & maintained by individual & communities, providing #DigitalLiteracy, #DigitalAutonomy, #ForwardSecrecy, #PrivacyAndSecurity, #PermaComputing

Without any gatekeepers, clouds, administrations, authorities, permanent records, blockchains, or middlemen

#MalleableSoftware #rightToBeForgotten

What I hope for from AG-UI actually doesn't need AI at all. I am hoping for a human-centric #UXD layer that could be the front-end component of a #ComposableComputing / #MalleableSoftware / #BrutalistComputing / #PhenotropicProgramming paradigm, unlocking for common users most of the functionality of modern computing that most have relied on app developers to eventually roll out for them.

Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World

https://www.mdubakov.me/malleable-software-will-eat-the-saas-world/

#HackerNews #MalleableSoftware #SaaSInnovation #TechTrends #FutureOfSoftware #Disruption

"The doctor and writer Atul Gawande has written about how computerization in the medical profession is leading to record levels of burnout. For instance, doctors would once skip irrelevant fields when filling out paper forms; now the software forces them to fill in those fields, and they have no power to edit those software rules. As Gawande says of one doctor: 'Spending the extra time didn’t anger her. The pointlessness of it did'.”

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

#MalleableSoftware

@i_dabble

Thoughts on Tools Not Apps
https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/114661067873463414

“Steve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind — But what he really sold us was a train for the mind, which goes only between where rails and stations have been laid down by armies of laborers.”

The Amiga had no “Desktop” but a “Workbench”,

Imagine a computer system… without a desktop, but instead a kitchen, a workshop, a garden, and a laboratory

Not a train bringing you from station to station but a slightly dirty and scratched all terrain bike which has allowed you and your mind to go anywhere and everywhere, even where no one has gone before

Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg, and Todd Matthews. 2025. #MalleableSoftware: Restoring User Agency in a World of Locked-Down Apps. Ink & Switch. #Essay https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

"The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable."

"Software should have never been an industry."

https://fosstodon.org/@DLC/114378239674029961

https://fosstodon.org/@DLC/114320395972716733

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm still searching for answers

––

Follow-up on my #piwo2025 talk:

malleable software

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

My talk was all about control=agency.
I push for #freesoftware because there's no #agency without permission. But permission is not enough to gain agency to modify things. They also need to be built malleable.

#malleablesoftware #opensource @piwo

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

#HackerNews #MalleableSoftware #UserAgency #LockedDownApps #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom

We talked about @inkandswitch.com and their forthcoming #MalleableSoftware essay - especially applicable to #atproto, can we make it so users can remix and make custom apps on top of the data in their repos

If you have thoughts on extensions or plugin systems consider submitting to the malleable systems challenge problem on fearless extensibility: https://forum.malleable.systems/t/challenge-problem-fearless-extensibility/205

#MalleableSoftware #Extensions #plugins #enduserprogramming