andrew blinn in sf ⏱️

holiday mini project: balatrize hazel. made this real after last week's mockup proved popular

@joseph_h_garvin you can still do a normal text editor line flip with whatever the vscode keyboard shortcut is; just the refactor gestural quasimode restricts you to semantics preserving transformations

@disconcision Might annoy users if they want an invalid order as an intermediate state before they do another edit. Especially if it also blocks you from renaming a variable reference to refer to a variable that comes later, then you're stuck. And if one is allowed why is the other disallowed?

mildly resistant convoy hoist

@salty_grndpa this was originally supposed to be part of a structured editor for racket (youtube.com/watch?v=CnbVCN…) but i'm on a 7 year ocaml side quest

Imagine this but on lisp

@cotterzz @TheBalkanHacker @CFDevelop codemirror (eg the decorations API) is also really good for these kinds of things these days. neither felt quite there years ago when i started writing the above from-scratch IDE, but ill admit im probably sunk-costing it at this point

@TheBalkanHacker @disconcision @CFDevelop It actually took about 10 minutes, this is sped up☺️ No LLM involved here. Though sledit does have a separate AI assist mode if you bring your own api key, so you can switch between this mode, AI assist, vim and emacs bindings and regular monaco editing mode.

@disconcision @CFDevelop If you're interested, this is what it looks like now. Writing a GLSL mandelbrot set without a keyboard. This is all done with JS+monaco+AST parser.

asking about evil twins triggered a demotion to opus. the medium is the message

@repligate i think class of 2024 was the absolute LAST possible boat to catch for a college degree that wasn't a 100% waste of time so if it's 2026 time to pick up some poetry books and wander west

The most anti-vim post I’ve seen

layers of observation

tfw you have been welcomed to the flock

what a fine fellow

Introducing MorphoHDL, a minimal language prototype for growing boolean circuits! paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io/morpho/ Early this year I wanted to design a size-agnostic graph rewrite rule system that could build functional boolean circuits. First I thought about "chemistry"-like reactive systems, but rules were too complicated with many different node types carrying multiple indices... Then I realized, that cell division is much more natural way of building complex structures, and once I started to treat graph edges as buses instead of single wires, everything clicked. No new formalism — just taking good old recursion and seeing how far I can push it. Ripple-carry adder, Brent–Kung adder, multipliers ... and some Haeckel-esque creatures along the way! Hope you enjoy the report of my journey and the demos.

Researchers built a soft floating robot for indoor interaction. It uses helium and flapping fins instead of propellers. The result is quiet, lightweight, and safe to touch. It can follow people, give reminders, and act as a study buddy. Published at ACM DIS 2026.

@CFDevelop its in our research language/IDE (hazel.org; dragging isn't merged in yet though). would like to bring it to a real language / editor, but its harder as few have been intentionally designed to enable such things

@disconcision We need this in IDEs now. Is this JavaScript?

all will become fidgetable

just like in my gaussian splats..

phone version of this where the caret has weight. you need to tilt the phone to make the caret pull the indicated term along the appropriate refactoring track.

@robinhanson as parents we are exhibiting near mythic levels of hostility and controlling behavior towards said descendants

Much of error of PauseAI view is seeing AIs as a rival alien species, instead of as descendants who will revere, if not always obey, ancestors. Sure parents can need to guide toddlers to block harm to kids & others. But crazy to expect kids to eventually kill parents.

@Ronenl freed from the yoke of economic relevance, fussing with syntax now becomes the universal free play it was always meant to be

@disconcision Too late, would been great when we still wrote code 😕