"The program should, in some way, expand the concept of what computer paint programs are, as well as what mark making can be."
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
Put up some Tcl/Objective-C code -- C 'FFI' and stream code excerpted from some bigger projects that I haven't released yet, just have wanted to make at least some of it public github.com/osnr/display-stream-rects
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
hah what if you could just go to localhost:4930 to see the state of the process with PID 4930 etc
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Unix processes should maybe all run 'Web servers' and you can send your browser to like 'http://Chromium.localhost' or 'http://clang.localhost' and see various live internal data structures and computations of that program
@dabeaz
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Feb 27, 2021
Replying to @whitequark
…years ago when working on Swig, it had a small embedded web-server in it that let you browse all of the compiler internal data structures with a browser. Super useful.](https://social.omar.website/fileserver/01PG4R73NMJC888MJM2KBM4CFF/attachment/original/01GCAMXK94PNYF3CMGGXJSA11A.png)
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
maybe you could put a cash deposit inside a browser tab and you get it back after you close the tab
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
"i get less out of explaining art to technologists than i do out of explaining concepts like interface and bootstrapping to artists"
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
color swatch, sound swatch, program swatch, etc
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
i like the strain view origamisimulator.org
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
@neauoire Paper electronic modules -- have you seen this? www.artic.edu/artworks/239495/anatomical-board-of-a-speaker
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@omar,
i feel like model applications of TCP were, like, remote login and file transfer -- is that written down somewhere?
what are the equivalent model applications for WebSocket?
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@omar,
"… they are at the end of the process of computer programming, far removed from the programmer. The programs they are using were not written with their particular needs in mind."