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Phil Cockfield
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sys.crdt 🧫
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Rafi
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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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Phil Cockfield
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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). sys.ui.PageStack ↓
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Phil Cockfield
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↑ ref: "Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology" — David Gelernter, 1998 https://archive.org/details/machinebeautyele0000gele/page/n179/mode/2up
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