3 posts tagged with "malleable-systems"

Dimensions of Extensibility - 2024-10-29

A response to the first Malleable Systems Challenge Problem, exploring dimensions of extensibility including open vs. closed extensibility, trust and authority, orthogonality, compositionality, and substrates.

On Compositional Window Management - 2023-02-11

Window management is one of the least valued categories of software given how heavily used it is. I explore how composing window managers could make applications more malleable.

Flatten the Program Lifecycle - 2023-01-02

The traditional way we break down the Program Lifecycle is keeping us from making radical improvements in Computing. Flattening the lifecycle by unifying edit time, compile time, and run time could bridge the gap between programming and interactive computing.