Software for One

Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs | Jeremy Morrell

Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers

Ink & Switch malleable software essay

When I program, I personally prefer to be controlled by the tools I use. They were build for a reason, for a specific workflow. I want my program to typecheck. I dont want to have the freedom to write untyped programs. I don’t want git to also have the ability to crop images. At this specific moment, I want to perform a specific task and I want the tools to help me do it, nothing more complex , or annoying , that could allow me to shoot myself to the foot. Control is bliss. Control is bliss as ...

Note · Mikkel Malmberg

Of all the psychoses I've taken part of, this current AI coding one sure is my favourite. Never have I felt this unlocked, locked in, ambitious and unconstr...

Gemini AI Visual Design - Google Design

Explore how Google designers use gradients, motion, and foundational shapes to build trust and intuition within the evolving Gemini AI assistant experience.

Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die

Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas.  The day's lesson was a crash course in the use of an uncomplicated yet marvelous program. With it, one might persuade a computer to do anything and everything - or so it seemed to a child with the attention span to appreciate the wonder.  Half a dozen of us were invited back a week later; and then again, and again, for several delicious months.

Just in time software

I didn’t plan to write software in the grocery store last night. I was tired and hungry, kids in tow. My long shopping list sat in a text message. I wished I could check items off as I found them. Ideas filtered through my head: I could transfer the list to a piece of paper: too tedious I could copy/paste it into a notes app or an email draft and delete items: too much tapping I could search the web and app store for a thing that would do what I want (of which there were no doubt a great many): slow and painful and annoying Nope nope nope nope nope.

The Phoenix Architecture

Generative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicit

Regenerative Software - The Phoenix Architecture

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.