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Slowly going out on a limb. Making experimental creative tools on the web at http://constraint.systems. He/him. grantcuster.com
Ah yea I like tiling so it’s a plus for me. You might be able to config them
all to floating and it’d be close to normal but might be a little fiddly.
January 14, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I think maybe that working with AI can feel so ungrounded that the ties to physical reality help ground it. I imagine it will continue to develop though.
January 13, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Thinking about in relation to bsky.app/profile/chri...
The foundation of personal computing is the filesystem.

The foundation of the internet is a networked filesystem.

The foundation of a new social web will likely be a social filesystem. (It remains an ope question if atproto is such a foundation)
It seems a fork lies ahead, is atproto a portable database for a bunch of apps or a new type of post-app, social filesystem?
January 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Thinking about something like a system that only boots to picotron (which would be fun anyway) but may end up feeling artificially constrained.

Sitting down together sounds great too of course but want something they can feel like they really 'own'.
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Nice - I have a two-year-old so am thinking about future possibilities - kind of want to replicate that feeling of computer lab time from my childhood with nothing to do except explore every edge of the system. But I think that's hard to recreate.
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Did they end up creating much in pico8?
January 12, 2026 at 3:10 AM
into the proper neovim split and then run the neovim command (and actually has a fork so it skips that if it's already in neovim rather than an app). it's cool but a little duct-tapey
January 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
neovim is the source of truth so it mostly just fires off niri commands to match the neovim split layout - there's not really anything outside that needs to know.

the boundaries are still kind of weird - niri handles global shortcuts like tile navigation by moving using the window id to move back
January 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
yea I think the social aspect is where it gets interesting - was also thinking about possible riffs on a jukebox
January 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by grant
This reminds me a little bit of @asuth.com's paper computer.
youtu.be/Y8Qm48_GhJ8
Demo 3 - Andrew Sutherland and the Paper Computer, interactivity, computability and no screens!
YouTube video by Kosmik
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Love this! I actually saw a demo of it around then and forgot directly but must have been lodged in my brain somewhere.
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM