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 last bit of fun for the day: progress on my function reactive scene graph thing for livecoded visuals. i am trying to avoid using a heavy framework like vue or react for the livecoding / reactive parts, so i am writing that bit myself. right now i have a basic virtual dom reconciler working on top of a-frame which talks to three.js and eventually webgl. you can see the scene change as i edit the file and the element view reflecting the relatively efficient updates to the dom. I'm considering proposing a class to SFPC that explores "horizontal systems", social and technical systems that function without needing leaders. the initial idea is that the classes would alternate between discussions of anarchist theory (eg Maletesta, Goldman) and decentralized protocols like BitTorrent and git, maybe getting into systems that are decentralized in principle but centralized in practice like email and talking about how these things can fail. I want people to come away thinking about systems they participate in and build that have "roles" for people like "admin" and what kind of implicit rigid power dynamics they are reproducing without much thought. which is not to say that such things are bad or wrong, just that they have a weight to them that I think is invisible to most of us because of their ubiquity. 12
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Gregory's Server
building my own reconciler and reactive system means I can tune the experience exactly the way I want. the trade off in using established frameworks directly is that they're designed to work in the general case and are quite weighed down by history and "best practices" as a result. I'm trying to take advantage of the freedom that comes with targeting a specific case and embracing "worst practices" 😈