For the last ~year I've been keeping a close eye on how language models capabilities meaningfully change the speed, ease, and accessibility of software development. The slightly bold theory I put forward in this talk is that we're on a verge of a golden age of local, home-cooked software and a new kind of developer – what I've called the barefoot developer.
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
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For July 2024, James is hosting
the IndieWeb Carnival
and he picked the theme of
Tools
for us to write up:
Over the next month, I invite you to write a blog post about tools and how
they do, or have, influenced your createive process. You can write about tools
in
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[[2024-07-07]]
Maggie Appleton paints a vivid picture of the possibilities that LLM’s open up for non-professional developers to create software tools for their own problems in Home Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers. This resonates strongly with my hope for
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Text tools this week.
CommonMark, a Markdown specification.
LyX, a TeX editor. (this and previous from this thread.)
nvi command summaries. Follow the thread.
BSD User Group Düsseldorf Juli 2024.
Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87).
XScreenSaver 6.09 out now.