Interactive computing

Observable Notebooks are amazing for playing with data & visualizing it nicely.

Inventing on Principle & Simply Make Interactive Diagrams are great talks.

Links

• Jupyter Interactive Notebook - Web-based notebook environment for interactive computing.
• Observable - Discover insights faster and communicate more effectively with interactive notebooks for data analysis, visualization, and exploration.
• Interactive Programming for Artificial Intelligence - Dragan Djuric (2019)
• Nextjournal - Notebook for reproducible research.
• Julia Roggatz - Muse Prototype Challenges (2019)
• lively.next - Personal programming kit. It emphasizes liveness, directness and interactivity.
• Small-Step Live Programming by Example (2020)
• What's Wrong with Computational Notebooks? (2020) (HN)
• Eve - Programming language based on years of research into building a human-first programming platform. (Code)
• Cables - Tool for creating beautiful interactive content. With an easy to navigate interface and real time visuals.
• CS294: Building User-Centered Programming Tools (2020)
• Learnable Programming (2012)
• How Observable Runs (2018)
• observablehq/runtime - Observable dataflow runtime.
• Programmable space - Bringing computing to the scale of a room makes it a communal and social experience.
• Idyll - Markup language for interactive and data-driven blogging. (Code) (HN)
• CodeDown - Collaborative coding and mathematics notebooks. (GitHub)
• Communicating with Interactive Articles (2020)
• Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) (HN)
• SplootCode Editor - Experimental visual coding interface that's tree-based.
• Script of Scripts (SoS) - Computational environment for the development and execution of scripts in multiple languages for daily computational research.
• Myxine - Local web server that enables you to create interactive applications in your web browser from the comfort of your favorite programming language.
• Storyboard - Narrative engine for interactive storytelling.
• curvenote/article - Components for interactive scientific writing, reactive documents and explorable explanations.
• curvenote.dev - Interactive Scientific Writing.
• Playbit - Computing environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of software.
• Paper Programs - Browser-based system for running programs on pieces of paper.
• Dynamicland - Our mission is to incubate a humane dynamic medium whose full power is accessible to all people. (HN)
• Enso - Hybrid visual and textual functional programming. (Code) (HN)
• In search of a dynamic medium (2021)
• Ossia - Open Software System for Interactive Applications. (Code)
• Fabrik - A Visual Programming Environment (1988) (HN)
• Future of computing explorations
• Interactions Book
• Twine JS - Tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. (Web) (HN)
• Joy.js - Make happy little programs. (Web) (HN)
• Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface (2006)
• OpenCodeBlocks - Open-source tool for visual and modular block programing in python.
• unit - Next Generation Visual Programming Platform. (Code)
• 2021 Observable Community Recognition
• Götz Bachmann’s Ethnographic Research on Dynamicland (2022)
• PyFlow - Visual and modular block programming in Python. (HN)
• Schultzschultz - TouchType Tool
• Observable notebook backups
• BlocklyML - Simple visual programming Tool for python and ML. Built on Google Blockly. (Code)
• Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models (2022)
• Awesome Flow-Based Programming (FBP) Resources
• Livebook v0.6 - Automate and learn with smart cells by José Valim (2022) (Tweet)
• Observable Examples
• Sequential Workflow Designer - Written in TypeScript with no dependencies.
• Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
• Scratch is a big deal (2022) (HN)
• Collage tool for stable diffusion
• The state of Flow-based Programming (2022)
• Programming Portals (2022) (Tweet)
• Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software (2022) (HN)
• Works - oimo.io
• "Diagrammar: Simply Make Interactive Diagrams" by Pontus Granström (2022)
• Prototype implementation of 2022 mnemonic medium design
• Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022) (HN)
• Desk - Application platform for your cyberpunk desk.
• Nutshell - Make expandable explanations. (Web)
• Weathering Software Winter (2022) (Transcript) (Lobsters)
• A personal history of visual programming environments (2021) (HN)
• Awesome Playgrounds
• Estuary - Platform for collaboration and learning through live coding.
• Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision? (2023)
• NodeScript - Visual programming language for the modern Web.
• Luna Park - Advanced visual scripting editor for the web.
• Flyde - Visual functional reactive flow-based programming tool that can be used to build anything from CLI tools to bots and web apps built.