Happy new year! In the UK, 2012 was the year of the Raspberry Pi, a cheap hardware contribution to … More
Category: Software
Acme – the text editor from Plan 9
Acme is a programmers’ text editor from the Plan 9 operating system. It was developed in the early 1990s by … More
Temporal recursion now in Fluxus
Programmers working in the functional style often like to avoid writing functions which have any side-effects beyond returning a value. … More
No-input live coding with Clive and BEER
It’s time to coin the phrase no-input live coding. First the context — a no-input mixing board is a mixer that’s … More
TOPLAPapp in the browser
Continuing the rush to browser-based live coding, the sonic, abstract live coding puzzle TOPLAPapp by the mysterious Click Nilson now runs in … More
Otomata – Online Generative Musical Sequencer by Batuhan Bozkurt
I think “Otomata” by Batuhan Bozkurt is lovely and it sounds lovely. It works a tiny bit like AlJazari in that there are … More
Bret Victor on Live Coding
Bret Victor has another insightful essay up about “learnable coding”, which he says is an “immune response” to people saying … More
Digital natives – the next generation of live coders?
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/40971142] Live coding can feel like a practice in a perpetual state of becoming, sometimes unsure of where it … More
Xiki – the executable wiki
Although not often used for music or video, commandlines are a special kind of live coding environment, and Xiki is a … More
Emacs live
Emacs live brings live coding to the renowned (and occasionally feared) emacs editor. It gives access to the overtone (for audio) and quil (for video) … More