"Programmable Ink" by Szymon Kaliski (Strange Loop 2022)

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Szymon Kaliski's Strange Loop 2022 talk on Programmable Ink, work from Ink and Switch that explores programming with pen and paper. Handwritten ink on a tablet becomes live and responds to code.

HN people recommend it strongly as the best modern take on early tablet visions of computing with diagrams and handwriting.

“I can't recommend their Strange Loop 2022 talk enough”
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@lvh2022 · in “Inkbase: Programmable Ink”
If you prefer watching a talk, I can't recommend their Strange Loop 2022 talk enough: ▶ this video
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@szymon_k2022 · in ““Programmable Ink” Talk at Strange Loop 2022”
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@mlajtos2022 · in “Programmable Ink – programming with pen and paper”
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@pjmlp2024 · in “Interview with Dr. Ken Iverson (1982)”
Early computer folks were visionaries, they did plenty of stuff and ideas, that we are still slowly catching up to. Imagine being able to do this on a random tablet (from ), link The best we got is something like this, ▶ this video
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@pjmlp2024 · in “A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write”
Naturally the idea is to explore new concepts a mix of diagrams and coding, Basically what Brett Victor in recent times, and others have been trying to do for decades, "Grail on Rand Tablet from 1968 demo" link Or "Programmable Ink" at Strange Loop 2022, ▶ this video There used to exist a graphical based Lisp for iPad, Lisping, unfortunely the app is long gone as it wasn't kept up to date with the OS. Here is on old thread discussing it, link The new iPad Calculator, is a more recent example of such ideas.
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@gklitt2022 · in “Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software”
Ink & Switch has been doing work for a while on applying these same ideas of gradual enrichment to ink and tablets. Recent talk describing that work: ▶ this video
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