👽 akkartik

👋 I build simple, low-maintenance programs that reward curiosity about their internals.

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My first app on a new, hopefully convivial platform: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-04-13-devlog

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All the 1-D cellular automata: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/702311/all-the-1-d-cellular-automata

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A quick and dirty charting library for your computer or phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/686788/lots-of-charts

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A paper computer implemented in a silicon computer: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/685707/a-little-programming-game

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Dynamically adjusting the ticks on the x- and y-axis of a plot as I pan around and zoom in and out on a mobile device. https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/678890/new-version-after-51-days

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This might be the most excellent thing I've read in a while: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/02/02/nimble-nationality-will-define-state-capacity/index.html

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Pong + Yin-Yang = Pin-Pong https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/673935/pong-wars

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An equation plotter in 90 lines, written on my phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/656473/building-an-equation-plotter

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A voice recorder you can tweak the source code for right on your Android phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/652184/a-voice-recorder-in-150-lines-of-code

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Lua Console: create little programs on desktop or mobile devices https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

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This is the most insightful talk I've watched in recent memory: https://archive.org/details/finding-meaning

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Hands-on with my Freewheeling Apps: https://spectra.video/videos/watch/36f75e1c-4530-4f43-ba32-9a73aa40d0f3 (video; 20 minutes)

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A talk summarizing my past year: http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

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A little app to draw graphs: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love I've wanted something like this for a long time. Intended for small graphs where laying things out by hand is not too painful, and it's nice that things don't move around every time I make a change, as happens with graphviz (https://graphviz.org). The file format is also amenable to git; no long lines, and adding new nodes or edges doesn't reorder unrelated nodes and edges.

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This might be the most mind-bending 20 minutes of my life: https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is. I wanted more, so I'm watching 1.5 hours at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6CQCbk2ro

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I just figured out how to add tests in my "code as a map" programming environment: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109742488349122478

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2022 summary: A year of freewheeling apps http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

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A Lua-based markup language: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love

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Has anyone heard of stack people vs queue people? I don't know where I got it from, but it's been an enduring part of my self-image for a decade now that I'm a stack person. When something new pops up, a queue continues what they were doing. A stack switches. Obviously this is a spectrum, but I find it very easy to rationalize that the new tasks are "quick". Anyway, being a stack is hard with a new project. Every 2 minutes I discover something broken, and now I have to resist working on it.v

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Live-coding using LÖVE: https://spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBbsqKXGhGzwT (video; 5 minutes)

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A 4-minute video about my project to replace debuggers with print statements: https://handmade.network/snippet/1561

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Weird, I just added hyperlinks to my text editor in 35 lines of code: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines-and-links/commit/c81bedca8dddv. Some caveats, but still. This feels like a super power.

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For the Handmade Network Wheel Reinvention Jam last week I tried to come up with some tools to help with debug by print: https://handmade.network/p/283/bifold-text

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More on my note-taking app, including a command palette and commands for managing a graph of notes: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108766067153506592 Still no release. It's still crashing once a day or so. (Never loses data, tho.)

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I've been building a note-taking app for the past month, and feeling the pressure to show at least a little bit about it even if it's not released yet: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-pensieve-2022-07-27 (video; 5 mins)

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I've been working on a text editor where you can also draw line drawings. Since I put it out I've been getting a trickle of feature requests. Suddenly the need to say no is very real, and I need to make good decisions. I've been using 2 escape hatches: 1. Forks. Somebody proposed an alternative system for drawing polygons that was actually quite self-consistent and had complementary strengths and weaknesses. We don't have to pick one, here's a fork: https://github.com/akkartik/lines-polygon-experiment 2. Add-ons as separate applications. Some people want an exporter to markdown SVG. But most won't. Why complicate the codebase for everyone. Instead: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108580451364837131

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An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings: http://akkartik.name/lines.html

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A zettelkasten app built in Teliva, the rugged platform for sandboxed, hackable text-mode apps: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10 (video; 4 minutes)

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I gave a talk at FOSDEM a few hours ago: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2022-01-16-fosdem Try out the project I describe there: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

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Running untrusted apps more flexibly and simply: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-12-25 (video; 2 minutes) Programming languages assume you trust all code you run. Browsers assume you trust all network access from websites you visit. With Teliva I'm exploring other approaches in search of a sandboxing model that's both more flexible and easier to understand/trust. (Look for the easter egg involving your favorite protocol.) Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

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