Category Archives: Stability

Wikilon Filesystem

Posted on 2014 November 4 by

Wikilon isn’t just an online dictionary for AO code. It will offer a simple filesystem-like abstraction, allowing use as a software platform for creating interesting applications and services. Simple isn’t easy. I’ve spent a great many hours designing, refining, and … Continue reading →

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Progress Report: Loops and Restarts in Sirea

Posted on 2013 March 12 by

I’ve been working on Sirea quite a bit in the last few months, albeit making less progress than I had hoped. Mostly, I’ve been running in circles. In Reactive Demand Programming, all loops are indirect, via a shared external resource … Continue reading →

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Stateless Sound

Posted on 2012 December 11 by

Most audio abstractions involve relative start and some finite bound (end time). That is, we might play(sound) starting at some given instant, and we expect the sound to continue playing until finished. The representation of sound may be stateless (e.g. … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous Programming with Pen and Paper

Posted on 2012 October 26 by

Programming ideas strike at any time – while taking a walk, or standing in line. Meetings, for me, are a common location for programming ideas. A few slides or phrases catch my interest in an otherwise droll and predictable commentary. … Continue reading →

Posted in Distributed Programming, Language Design, Modularity, Open Systems Programming, Stability, State, UserInterface | Tagged , | 7 Comments

Stone Soup Programming

Posted on 2012 September 12 by

Stone soup programming is meant to evoke an image of throwing software components into a pot – in no particular order, and paying little attention to the ingredients – and the result being a nice application. The glue code between … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Design, Live Programming, Modularity, Reactive Demand Programming, Stability, Types | 7 Comments

Stateless Stable Arts for Game Development

Posted on 2012 September 7 by

In the months since grasping the concept of stateless stable models, I regularly find scenarios where I think, “A stateless stable model would be useful here.” Unfortunately, I’ve not gotten around to implementing these models. (I still haven’t. I might … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Stability without State

Posted on 2012 March 14 by

I understand `state` to be a summary of the past, maintained in the present, to inform the future. State is a powerful tool, and essential in many problems (such as writing this text). But state is often too powerful – … Continue reading →

Posted in Concurrency, Distributed Programming, Modularity, Open Systems Programming, Reactive Demand Programming, Stability, State | 12 Comments