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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 4h

the dynamic abstractions community looks cool

dynamicabstractions.github.io

dynamic abstractions

dynamicabstractions.github.io

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

Some notes by @akkartik.name (2025)

akkartik.name/post/2025-06...

"I'm very dissatisfied with the current state of the world in two regards:

𝐀. Computer owners can't easily understand or modify programs they run.
𝐁. Computer vendors compete to limit permissions for modifying programs.

Both 𝐀 and 𝐁 have happened through the efforts of often idealistic people, but they've brought us to a world that it seems clear is going in the wrong direction:

For 𝐀: Every tool (IDE, debugger, programming language) and process (Waterfall, TDD, Agile) arose out of dissatisfaction with some current state of the world, but the "pragmatic" ones that gained traction were the ones that vendors get to control.
For 𝐁: "Trusted computing", browser sandboxing and app stores are all "pragmatic" solutions that have centralized power in vendors and failed to keep computer owners safe."

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

jakefee.leaflet.pub/3lxwoyhy4gs22

[010] Theseotomy - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse

Wednesday 3 September 2025

jakefee.leaflet.pub

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

Software is inherently 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴, yet we package it up as single-use apps and create laws preventing the modification of those apps.

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

"Theseotomy" by @jakefee.bsky.social

"A sock that can be darned is also theseous. Wool socks are wonderfully theseous. The repairs made to a woolen sock will felt back into the original fabric until they are inseparable. A sock made of acrylic yarns that frays and dissolves irreparably is non-theseous. That sort of industrially-made low-quality sock has undergone a theseotomy. A theseotomy is a procudure in which the theseous nature of a thing has been destroyed or damaged."

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

"Theseotomy" by @jakefee.bsky.social

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 1d

wrote about "alive internet theory" or why the bots won't win

news.spencer.place/p/alive-inte...

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Jasmine Otto @jatazak.bsky.social · 2d

Bay Area UX/PL folks - I'm organizing a get-together the morning of Sat, Oct 25th. Come chat about the joy and despair of making software tools for humans!
partiful.com/e/Fs3AD41RUM...

RSVP to Feeling of Computing // Downtown SF | Partiful

Get coffee, chat convivial tools, and hang out with folks in human-centered computing. This month, special guest Ivan Reese is joining us! (Location is outdoors, near transit and multiple coffee shop...

partiful.com

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 2d

revisiting this piece i wrote almost two years ago(!) & thinking about it in context to this gentle affirmation of existence as social interaction

news.spencer.place/p/ti-09-the-...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 3d

curious what those features are?

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 4d

contrarian bet: html-first sync engine

bsky.app/profile/chri...

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 3d

love this writeup & distinction between flavors of social media..

i think all the social media i have ever made (& what im after w playhtml) is about this gentle exchange of “i am here!”

we call out into the void and a stranger answers. how magical is that

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 4d

contrarian bet: html-first sync engine

bsky.app/profile/chri...

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 4d

is there a closing date for submissions?

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shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · 4d

we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to [email protected] for the next issue of the html review

thehtml.review/about

the html review — about

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

thehtml.review

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

i like a nice higraph

dslab.konkuk.ac.kr/class/2012/1...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

Applications continue to be opaque, don't met all the need of everyone, and has an endless amount of features that no one knows they can use. I wish we understood what's happening here better outside of some studies on keyboard shortcuts.

"- There were 4,000 commands across all of Office 2003 (Word, Excel, etc)
- 80% of users only used two commands: copy and paste

Nobody used all the features, but everyone used a different set.

'At a deeper level, most in a company might not use a feature such as Track Changes (or Redlining) in Word. But their lawyer would. And contracts or legal letters might arrive via email for review. Rarely used features became part of the work of others. This network of usage was a key advantage of Office.'

– Hardcore Software, 077. What Is Software Bloat, Really?"

"When asked about their understanding of shortcut keys, the most well-known was "Ctrl + C" (copy) at 62.6%, followed by "Ctrl + V" (paste) at 59.2%. This shows that about 40% of respondents do not know the shortcut keys for copying and pasting. The third most well-known was "Ctrl + Z" (undo) at 30.6%."

"The method of keyboard shortcuts was the favorite method for only 6.37% of the users based on loose criterion and for only 1.59% of the users based on the strict criterion."

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

I wish hydra had way to inspect intermediate shader code like this!

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

Each of these custom elements can render their own shadow DOM, but use slots to keep richer data in the same level of DOM!

I'll try to finish the kanban board up soon so there is a clear example to reference.

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

I think it only makes sense to sync one level of DOM at a time. But slot composition lets us get around this!

```html
<kanban-board name="...">
<kanban-column name="...">
<kanban-card name="..." description="..."></kanban-card>
</kanban-column>
</kanban-board>
```

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

this still works with state-based rendering, if you use a custom element library like lit and reflect the properties/attributes of custom elements that you want synced

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 7d

part of me is scared to let go of my precious state-based rendering but part of me wants to dust off jquery and party like it's 2006

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

Thanks! you can do some pretty cool stuff with it already 😜

bsky.app/profile/chri...

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · Sep 12

A region HTML element will reparent shapes when they sufficiently overlap it.

A region HTML element with the sync attribute create shared portals in a canvas.

```html
<folk-region folk-sync folk-shape="x: 100; y: 100; width: 200; height: 150;">
```

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 7d

The elephant in the room is this supposes an architecture that treats the DOM as read/write rather than the prevailing architecture of top-down rendering that largely treats the DOM as read-only... which I think is a better architecture tbh, maybe more on that in the future..

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