## Notes from Friday 4/13/18

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I didn't have time on Friday last week to write up my log entry, so here it is now...

## Dataflow links

On Friday I ended up opening more links than I had time to actually read.

* I found [this wonderful stack overflow answer that lists a bunch of dataflow programming langauges](https://stackoverflow.com/a/949771)
* There's [a similar list on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming#Languages)
* I also found [a paper that is doing a good job of explaining the history of dataflow programming languages](http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~dcm/Teaching/COT4810-Spring2011/Literature/DataFlowProgrammingLanguages.pdf)


## Other links

* I really need to take the time to read [BV's Climate Change essay](http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange)
* Mentioned in random passing in that article, BV links to [ActiveSheets](http://hirzels.com/martin/papers/debs16-activesheets.pdf), which seems similar enough to Streamsheets to warrant a reading.


## Murukesh

Fascinating conversation on Friday of last week. Notes in [this google doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12gsgrG-S-7E0osjWIECjeWjAQgHWEq0Zsuxcjru7PTU/edit?usp=sharing). Maybe I'll turn it into a proper article. It's fascinating that there's so much progress in this space in both the past and in industries that we ignore.

He sent me [two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk&feature=youtu.be&t=1385 ) [amazing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg) videos of the NeXTSTEP development environments that Steve Jobs made. Unbelievable. It's like Smalltalk. Really makes you scratch your head as to why we don't have development environments like this today.


## repl.it

I had a great call with Amjad of Repl.it last Friday as well, in part from my Eve article. I'm going to follow up with a few ideas for improving their IDE interface, and then possible begin developing for them part-time. I'm very excited about this! It makes me feel much more secure to have a second part-time gig running, as well as that it's starting to feel like finding these part-time gigs at developer-tools companies are repeatedly find-able. Content marketing - who knew?

Author: Steve Krouse