Anyone know how to math this correctly? I'm looking to take a point (e.g. mouse pointer in screen space) and project it into a 3d transformed plane (which is represented as a 3d matrix)?

The FoC Berlin startup I work for who has a IUD for a logo is congratulated by the Nasdaq! Clojure fans might recognise some of our customers names. BTW I switch from working in dev tools (ex-Firebase) to Fintech 3 years ago and it is so much better appreciated for pushing the envelope of what computation is and providing data augmented programming. Spreadsheets were developed for accounting, I don't think thats an accident... finance people are inherently more FoC friendly is what I have realised eventually. They dislike programming but love quantification, understanding and insights. They gravitate for the bicycle of the mind use-case over technical details, and they are willing to pay for things that ROI (unlike developers). Unfortunately they are much more secretive so I never really get to share details on the product :(

I did some vibe coding with Cursor and it got stuck in a loop of writing a buggy shell script, running it, looking at the output (unchanged because bugs), going "hmm let's fix that", then writing the exact same shell script.

I feel like I saw a really good literature review "state of the world" wrt visual/graphical programming a while back (probably here, though could have been elsewhere) but apparently didn't save the link and can't find it again... So, anyone have any favorites or good pointers for something like that?

Here is a game: 1. Go to https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Design_Aesthetics 2. Check out some of the design styles 3. Come back here and post your favourite one that you wish were used more in FoC UIs

Here's the recording of the . See you next month!

A dataviz driven development win. "If you do not have a visualization for a problem, you will never solve it" https://blog.autorouting.com/p/13-things-i-would-have-told-myself Also in spatial domain. Code + dataviz is my future of coding.

Our next meetup will be april the 30th at 18:00 UTC .. so, we're looking for 2 volunteers to do a demo/presentation (we already got 1 volunteer)! So who wants to share anything about their project? https://lu.ma/6531cavq

We're still looking for 2 more volunteers who want to demo/present something about their project (an update is fine as well even if you presented before) on our next meetup the 30th of april, leave a comment if you're up for it

Slack replacement, @Ivan Reese? https://github.com/colanode/colanode

Here's the recording of the most recent virtual meetup.

Hi, our next FoC "Fountain of Confusion" meet-up will be on Wednesday the 28th of May 18:00 UTC... we're looking for 2 more guests who want to present or demo, because we've already got @Rebeca Garcia who wants to presents us Cubode AI. So if you want to demo please let us know in the comments This is the link to our event luma: https://lu.ma/sjlh6c15

We're still looking for 2 people who want to present/demo something about their project at our next FoC meetup the 28th of May (see earlier message). Who's up for it?

Hi ! We need 1 one more small demo/presentation for our next FoC meetup the 28th may, dont be shy! 😊

Observable canvas livestream is now https://streamyard.com/watch/vpmmiyXKuPAT

Here's the recording of today's virtual meetup. Great demos! Excited for next month. Thanks everyone who presented and attended.

🥱 Strings are just arrays of numbers. 🧐 Numbers are just arrays of booleans with a sufficiently small word size.

Is coding/programming/computering/beepbooping/funking of corn a hobby or a job to you? Or both? It's both for me and I'm increasingly having the two diverge. "Work" coding and "home" coding feel like two entirely different worlds.

Hi, we have a date for our new online FoC meetup : Wednesday 25th of June 18:00UTC ..this is the link for the event on luma : https://lu.ma/xz9u6w6v .. and more information about the setup of our virtual meetups can be found here: https://futureofcoding.org/meetups (please read carefully if you want to demo/present) .. for next meetup we already have two guests in the pipeline (I'll contact both of you @Tom Larkworthy and @Rebeca Garcia to confirm) so we're looking for at least one more demo/presenter. Let us know in the chat here or contact me directly.

Might be a good day to meditate on the HyperCard Bible... https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip

I was at programming 2025 and heard a developer struggling with glitching in reactive systems. Made me dig deeper into Observable reactivity model. I sometimes see glitching but its when I manually short circuit the dataflow graph. The actual engine is glitch free even when you put async tasks in the middle. I've properly tested it now! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25139257/terminology-what-is-a-glitch-in-functional-reactive-programming-rx

hello i am going to do a livestream later where i watch back through every todepond tech talk ive ever given to reflect on each one. i invite you to join! https://www.youtube.com/live/7U0PYAOkp4Q?si=tMK6mbAevlD3GqkG

We have a free spot in our FoC meetup Wednesday 25th of June 18:00UT, so if anyone still wants to present something about their project. Check our https://futureofcoding.org/meetups guidelines if you want to demo/present :-)

The most recent FoC Virtual Meetup was fantastic. Three great presentations covering a pretty wide range of the FoC spectrum. The recording is live . Thanks again to our presenters, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone next month.

Another difference is that your unit of code is the cell, whereas the unit of code in PLs is the function (plus a few others). Combinations of cells can be represented by nodes and wires. Combinations of functions are a lot more diverse, e.g. using higher-order functions.

Hi, we have a date for our new online FoC meetup : Wednesday 23th of July 18:00UTC ..this is the link for the event on luma : https://lu.ma/1d5mc44t .. and more information about the setup of our virtual meetups can be found here: https://futureofcoding.org/meetups (please read carefully if you want to demo/present) .. for next meetup we already have one confirmed guest so we're looking for2 more demo/presenter. Let us know in the chat here or contact me directly. Thanks!

Does anyone know of a nice accessible survey of the state of reactive programming today, ideally with a focus on the different flavors/features and what kind of patterns they enable?

Next week we have a FoC meetup planned (23th of july, see announcement in the message above)... but we're still looking for one person who wants to present / demo something about their FoC project.. if you have interest please let us know 😊

Job posting — Ink & Switch is looking for someone to work on Automerge. It's something like a TypeScript + DevRel role, so if that sounds like you and you want to come work with a small group of playful researchers & engineers (and me), we'd love to have you!

I was considering posting about a (remote) job opening at my company for a C#/TypeScript developer, but Ivan's company is honestly, probably, superior. I used to be active here at FoC over four years ago, but then I got a job, and then the cofounder left, and I felt it necessary to build the product by myself. That product is basically "done" now, except not really, because every new customer wants new features. I really miss working working on programming-language design (see loyc.net) and my developer tools such as SyncLib, but right now I need a helping hand to (1) get more people buying our product and (2) help me hire more developers so that I (or we) can quit this job in 12 months or so. Right now we only have two developers, and the CEO wants to hire literally every person we interview, as he hates putting time into the hiring process. I'm pushing back on that because I only want certain kinds of people - probably the kinds of proactive people who would hang out in the communities I like, such as FoC, EA, ACX/SSC and LW. So for those in need of a paycheck, maybe consider working with me? Some personal characteristics: as an EA I care deeply about the future (fighting global poverty but also mitigating global risks―the latter being severe these days); I don't suffer fools and prefer to be blunt (which creates friction with the CEO, who is nontechnical and very sensitive to tone); I'm unconventional and can't stand people who like doing things the "standard way" just because "it's a standard" without being able to defend the pros and acknowledge the cons; I don't care for smalltalk (my idea of smalltalk is discussing optionally persistent data structures, or plausible global catastrophe scenarios); and I'm a stickler for good communication (detail, precision, accuracy, reasonableness, and ambiguity avoidance). Our product serves three different submarkets and has 125,000 lines of code (excluding tests, blank lines and generated code, but including 10,000 lines of comments, and yes, we should probably have a lot more comments). I mention this because I think typical developers would've written 500,000 lines to accomplish the same stuff. Here are my Principles of Programming. If you think about programming in a similar way, we should get along great!