Szymon Kaliski

Future Of Coding

Index of notes related to improving the way we create dynamic systems:

• we were promised a Bicycle for the Mind
• VPLs and VPL Issues
• Solving Things Visually
• Spreadsheet for End-User Programming Might be a Wrong Model
• Simulator
• Neighbour Computing
• Canvas for Programming
• CLI UX
• Filesystem as Database and a Data Layer
• Edit-Commit systems as a way to (in)directly manipulate without fear of messing up current state
• Writing Was Invented for Pragmatic Reasons and Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About so we probably shouldn't try to make programming "better" in itself, but in a specific context
• Live-Programming, Live-Coding, and Live-Programming Issues
• Programmable Ink, my research at Ink&Switch ↗
• Malleable Software, Dynamic Documents
• now also LLMs and Open Questions Around LLM Interfaces and VPLs and LLMs

Backlinks

1. 2025-11-11Simulator¹
2. 2024-04-14Canvas for Programming¹
3. 2023-04-03Joining Replit, and musings from the Job Hunt¹
4. 2022-07-19Bret Victor's Thesis¹
5. 2022-04-26Writing Was Invented for Pragmatic Reasons¹
6. 2022-02-14Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About¹
7. 2022-01-03A Dog, Short Ramble on "Programming", MIDI→CV, and a Rabbit-Holing Web Browser¹