Creating software is typically done in text-based environments—but would programming be more accessible with graphical programming tools? Maggie joins Mark and Adam to talk about the relative success of Scratch, Shortcuts, and Zapier; how to make the abstract visible; embodied metaphors; and the false duality of artistic versus logical thinkers. Plus: how to make blinking lights for your Burning Man art installation.
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Show notes * Maggie Appleton @mappletons * egghead.io * Centre for Computing History * Pacific Pinball Museum * Nintendo 64 * the noughties or the aughts * React * Scratch * Zapier, IFTTT, Integromat * low-code / no-code * Rocky’s Boots * circuit diagrams * DrScheme * Origami Studio * Muse memo on infinite canvas with Origami screenshot * LabVIEW * Logic Pro, Reason * the environment in Logic * iOS Shortcuts (née Workflow) * console loggings * end-user programming: embodiment * VS Code, npm, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React hooks * cultural anthropology * Geroge Lakoff, Mark Johnson * embodied metaphors * Dan Abramov * Just Javascript * pointers in C * Redux actions * _why’s poignant guide to ruby * Learnable Programming * Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations, Beautiful Evidence * Graphviz DOT graphs * jigs in wordworking * Unity * episode with Geoffrey Litt * Flutter, SwiftUI * XState * Apparatus * direct manipulation * Dreamweaver * Interface Builder * Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming * Adafruit * circuit debouncing with capacitors * walk uphill in the snow * Visual Programming Codex * Whole Code Catalog