Category Archives: User Interface

Exponential Decay of History

Posted on 2012 August 20 by

There are many problems for which it is useful to keep a history. A few examples of such problems: keep history of control-flow in an application for debugging purposes keep history of updates to a document for undo purposes keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Design, Stability, State, Types, User Interface | 3 Comments

Unlimited Detail for Large Animated Worlds

Posted on 2012 July 18 by

A group called Euclideon from Australia has made extraordinary claims about Unlimited Detail technology – ability to achieve much more detail in a world as you zoom in or out by representing structures in terms of atoms of arbitrary precision. … Continue reading →

Posted in Concurrency, Grammars, User Interface, UserInterface | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Abandoning Commitment in HCI

Posted on 2012 May 20 by

Today’s applications and services are very committed to what they do for us. And I mean that in a bad way. When we send a message to a service, or call a procedure, or press a button, it is generally … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Systems Programming, Reactive Demand Programming, User Interface | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Declarative, Reactive Command Line

Posted on 2011 October 28 by

A good command line interface allows its users to pack a lot of useful work into strings the size of twitter messages. There is no room for boiler-plate, no patience even for parentheses. Identifiers must be short. Parameters must have … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Systems Programming, User Interface | 9 Comments