Folk practices, such as screenshots of text, offer insight into user preferences and can be a basis for building better software. Omar is the creator of ScreenMatcher, Screenotate, and TabFS. He joins Adam and Mark to discuss the impact of Dynamicland; what it means to create “wiggly” computer systems; and the idea of trying to unlock latent demands of the end-user in order to enhance our ability to control computers.

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Show notes* Omar Rizwan, @rsnous * Hijack Your Feed * Metamuse episode with Jason Yuan * Screenotate * Screen Matcher * the analog hole * Mermaid * Metamuse episode with Maggie Appleton * Dynamicland * A Small Matter of Programming * Twine * Max Kreminski on Twine projects * FFI * Vulkan * Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions * Patrick Dubroy on orthogonal primitives * TabFS * Dynamicland Geokit work * Reactive database relatives: Bloom, Eve, Riffle * Displaying graphs in terminal * Pixel parsing: Viewpoint, Prefab * Buttons * Vulkan triangle * the charisma of end-user programming * “always already programming”