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d-cook / SomethingNew

SomethingNew

Collaboration for reinventing software in human terms

2Distinct people
2Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
174GitHub stars
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Collaboration for reinventing software in human terms

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The future of coding link in the parent has a large list of similarly spirited projects. I have scattered lists of similar projects but none handy or packaged well. I'll point…

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-05-25 13:29:18 UTC to 2021-04-13 16:29:30 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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angleofrepose·Apr 13, 2021Recommendation phrase
The future of coding link in the parent has a large list of similarly spirited projects. I have scattered lists of similar projects but none handy or packaged well. I'll point you to the Ink&Switch article on end user programming. https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html And encourage you to check out personal sites of the people involved. The lively kernel is a programming kit project that's been around in various incarnations for a long time. https://lively-next.org/ The history of Eve (also linked by that future of coding page) is rich and full of references to other projects http://witheve.com/ VPRI similarly is a gateway to lots of history on personal computing http://www.vpri.org/ of particular interest to me there is the graphical language Nile and the meta compiler Ohm. http://worrydream.com/ Bret Victor's site is an
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other gateway you may have heard of, and the researchers at Dynamicland are also well worth exploring. More future of coding resources https://github.com/d-cook/SomethingNew For more actual environments you can use I recommend https://observablehq.com/, https://starboard.gg/ and emacs along with the links above.
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