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Kartik Agaram

Implementing the Potluck system in LÖVE

inkandswitch.com/potluck

Research is awesome, but sometimes when you read a paper you just want to add it to your toolbox right now. In a way that fits in with your other tools.

Properties of my tools:

- minimal dependencies (no browser!)
- cross-platform; runs on Windows
- easy for anyone to modify (inkandswitch.com/end-user-prog)
- live; modify without restarting (youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab3ArE8W3)

Done so far: Potluck annotations

@emenel @khinsen LoveFrames alert

5 Nov 2022 at 21:27 | Open on merveilles.town
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Kartik Agaram

A minimalist DOM in 50 LoC

Is there a better name for this than "DOM"? A notation for a tree of rectangles, often containing text, to be rendered to screen and united with mouse events.

Rects contain either text or rows/cols of other rects. Other attributes: fg, bg, margin. Margin is margin-top or margin-left depending on whether the rect contains rows or cols.

No inline styling yet (bold, span, etc.), that feels like a separate concern.

@emenel @khinsen @akavel
19 Nov 2022 at 23:32 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

A Lua-based Markup Language

Demo of a structured text editor where you can edit multiple buffers arranged in nested rows/columns.

codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.lo

Doesn't save what you type in yet. This is just a demo for playing with.

I have no idea what attributes to include besides fg/bg/margin. So get in touch if this sparks ideas/suggestions.

This toot is dedicated to @nff.

28 Nov 2022 at 7:08 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

Black triangles for the umpteenth time.

I reimplemented my little box model atop a foundation of an infinite 2D surface that can be panned and zoomed.

@nff

18 Dec 2022 at 1:38 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

luaML on an infinite surface

You can draw various graphics and edit text in arbitrary grid layouts, all on a pannable, zoomable infinite surface.

codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.lo

@nff The Readme still warns that commit hashes may change, but I'm hoping this one's for good. I finally understand how to cleanly update the viewport based on edits within a pane; that was the major mountain to climb here.

24 Dec 2022 at 18:35 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

I've been live-coding my Lua-based markup language luaML using a driver program. Now I've pulled luaML into the driver program so that I can open multiple buffers, move them around, zoom in, zoom out, etc.

(And yes, you can live-program the driver. Not quite using itself, but by copying it into a "meta driver" and making a handful of edits.)

Compare v1 of the driver: merveilles.town/@akkartik/1091; v2: merveilles.town/@akkartik/1094

29 Dec 2022 at 4:57 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram
Kartik Agaram

A map for code

In this video, I start up in quick succession:

* a simple test app
* the 'driver' programming environment showing the map for the app's code
* the 'meta-driver' programming environment showing the map for the driver's code

On initial load the driver (glitchily) zooms out over the whole codebase before zooming back in to the previous session.

codeberg.org/akkartik/driver.l

(Inspiration: early side-scrolling videogames that would often start a new level by panning across all of it.)

A map for code

In this video, I start up in quick succession:

* a simple test app
* the 'driver' programming environment showing the map for the app's code
* the 'meta-driver' programming environment showing the map for the driver's code

On initial load the driver (glitchily) zooms out over the whole codebase before zooming back in to the previous session.

9 Jan 2023 at 0:53 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

Inspired by @ltratt's tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/com, I spent some time kicking the wheels on my code map based programming environment by building a BF interpreter.

Next up: reproducing in Lua Laurence's results regarding the compiler-interpreter spectrum.

17 Jan 2023 at 5:53 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

Here's the "load screen" for my environment, showing a visual overview of the code I've written.

17 Jan 2023 at 5:56 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

Dealing with failing tests when all you have is a map for code

Mechanisms:
* Highlight tests in green.
* Run all tests on any change.
* Highlight failing test cases in red.
* Turn edges of vision red when there's any failures, just in case failing tests are out of view.
* Hotkey to zoom out over all of current view.
* Same hotkey to restore viewport settings.
* Click anywhere to zoom in.

git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.lov

(What is a "freewheeling" app? akkartik.name/post/roundup22)

Dealing with failing tests when all you have is a map for code

Mechanisms:
* Highlight tests in green.
* Run all tests on any change.
* Highlight failing test cases in red.
* Turn edges of vision red when there's any failures, just in case failing tests are out of view.
* Hotkey to zoom out over all of current view.
* Same hotkey to restore viewport settings.
* Click anywhere to zoom in.

24 Jan 2023 at 5:18 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram replied to Kartik

Some distilled reference documentation on my Freewheeling Apps (a way of building low-maintenance Situated Software for small groups)

In a bare-bones template repo (~500 LoC): codeberg.org/akkartik/template

In a more elaborate template with testable primitives and an editor widget: codeberg.org/akkartik/template

Open it on a browser tab when you clone and start editing using git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.lov. There are a few examples in the Readme to spark ideas. Works on any Windows and Unix.

Some distilled reference documentation on my Freewheeling Apps (a way of building low-maintenance Situated Software for small groups)

In a bare-bones template repo (~500 LoC): codeberg.org/akkartik/template

In a more elaborate template with testable primitives and an editor widget: codeberg.org/akkartik/template

10 Apr 2023 at 7:57 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram replied to Kartik

A little app for drawing graphs

git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love

I've wanted something like this for a long time. Intended for small graphs where laying things out by hand is not too painful, and it's nice that things don't move around every time I make a change, as happens with graphviz (graphviz.org). The file format is also amenable to git; no long lines, and adding new nodes or edges doesn't reorder unrelated nodes and edges.

22 Apr 2023 at 2:56 | Open on merveilles.town
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