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This is a little UI module I'm surfacing to wrap around the `sys.crdt` data structure.  It puts composes a code-editor together with a {JSON} view of the CRDT itself.  That "page stack" receding into the distance is a visual ditty I dropped in to bring visibility to the history log that builds up as the CRDT changes state.

The main part of the work I'm focused on right now is getting the two-way syncing solid between the code-editor and the CRDT.  The sample above (WIP) shows YAML and I'm making it parse into JSON into and out of a "lens" sub-path into the root {CRDT} object.

Thanks Rafi! That's totally what it is (I did a little write up for @darrylyeo on what this module is as a harness view into a CRDT): https://warpcast.com/pjc/0xd5c44b86

To be (lightly) compared with early Apple UI is humbling & deeply appreciated!  Gracias. 🙇🏻‍♀️

A book that influenced me early on was David Gelernter's "Machine Beauty" within which he summarised his "Lifestreams" design, intentionally put forward as an elegant alternative idiom to a "desktop" metaphor (as enshrined by Apple's adaptation of the PARC/GUI).

When I saw that "lifestreams" interface turn up in the early Apple time-machine, I thought it was just magnificent.  Although Gelernter's lifestreams was a complete system, where all data was structured, and accessed as a stream in time (💦), and leaned heavily on the mind's strength at locating things in rough temporal memory (like figuring how deep shit is in a pile of crap on the desktop might be based on how long ago you worked on it, for example).

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Reminds me of beautiful pre-Johhny Apple Time Machine interface but much cleaner. I love fading lines!

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