I'm going back to the US in late September, this time to give a Programmable Ink talk at Strange Loop (which I'm both excited, and nervous about; not sure in which order). Hope to see some of you there!

• Draw in Order to See — very relevant to the Programmable Ink thread

• Homoiconic spreadsheets, a great talk from Eli Parra featuring a lot of overlaps with Programmable Ink track: spatial queries, unfolding time into space, and Working with the Material

This quarter has been filled with a lot of Programmable Ink things:

• this could possibly mix very well with the ideas of "spatial queries" explored in the Programmable Ink (and Dynamicland), where a pattern like the one above wouldn't be copy-pasted around, but instead declared once (as a "match" on a specific configuration of the cells on the canvas)

• Programmable Ink (Ink&Switch)

Crosscut is a research project developed at Ink&Switch in the Programmable Ink thread together with Marcel Goethals and Ivan Reese. It is a spiritual continuation of our work on End-User Programming (with an essay here), and the Inkbase project.

Inkbase is another Programmable Ink research project done at Ink&Switch, together with James Lindenbaum and Joshua Horowitz during summer and autumn of 2020.

This is something that was also an important realization in the Programmable Ink research at Ink&Switch, I think best verbalized here — immediate feedback makes it feel as if you are directly Working With The Material, helps build intuition and leverages Peripheral Vision for spotting patterns and issues.

Untangle is a Programmable Ink research project done at Ink&Switch, together with Marcel Goethals, and with engineering help from Mike Kluev.