👽 akkartik

👋 I build simple, low-maintenance programs that reward curiosity about their internals.

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A programming env for computer/phone, now with tutorials, learning programming, examples, reference docs: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

A markup language and hypertext browser in 600 lines of code. https://akkartik.name/post/luaML2 I think this answers a long-standing question for me about Gemini: is inline styling really so hard?

Practicing graphical debugging using too many visualizations of the Hilbert curve https://akkartik.name/debugUIs.html

My notebook app supports some simple computations: https://akkartik.name/images/20240930-notebook-eval.webm (30-second video) Repo: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/notebook.love

A silly little toy for browsing 8 little fractal programs: https://akkartik.name/curio1.love 2-minute video description: https://spectra.video/videos/watch/baab29fc-58fe-4ea2-97ba-70c19c189fe9

I've been building a new notebook app. Doesn't actually run any code yet, but take a look: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-09-19-devlog No web anything here.

Reflecting after doing something difficult: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/112831781974687588

Coming up with a paper notation for kids so they can think about programming without filling up short term memory with irrelevancies like the order to put numbers in. https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/112708494215840560

My first app on a new, hopefully convivial platform: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-04-13-devlog

All the 1-D cellular automata: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/702311/all-the-1-d-cellular-automata

A quick and dirty charting library for your computer or phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/686788/lots-of-charts

A paper computer implemented in a silicon computer: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/685707/a-little-programming-game

Dynamically adjusting the ticks on the x- and y-axis of a plot as I pan around and zoom in and out on a mobile device. https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/678890/new-version-after-51-days

This might be the most excellent thing I've read in a while: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/02/02/nimble-nationality-will-define-state-capacity/index.html

Pong + Yin-Yang = Pin-Pong https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/673935/pong-wars

An equation plotter in 90 lines, written on my phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/656473/building-an-equation-plotter

A voice recorder you can tweak the source code for right on your Android phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/652184/a-voice-recorder-in-150-lines-of-code

Lua Console: create little programs on desktop or mobile devices https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

This is the most insightful talk I've watched in recent memory: https://archive.org/details/finding-meaning

Hands-on with my Freewheeling Apps: https://spectra.video/videos/watch/36f75e1c-4530-4f43-ba32-9a73aa40d0f3 (video; 20 minutes)

A talk summarizing my past year: http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

A little app to draw graphs: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love I've wanted something like this for a long time. Intended for small graphs where laying things out by hand is not too painful, and it's nice that things don't move around every time I make a change, as happens with graphviz (https://graphviz.org). The file format is also amenable to git; no long lines, and adding new nodes or edges doesn't reorder unrelated nodes and edges.

This might be the most mind-bending 20 minutes of my life: https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is. I wanted more, so I'm watching 1.5 hours at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6CQCbk2ro

I just figured out how to add tests in my "code as a map" programming environment: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109742488349122478

2022 summary: A year of freewheeling apps http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

A Lua-based markup language: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love

Has anyone heard of stack people vs queue people? I don't know where I got it from, but it's been an enduring part of my self-image for a decade now that I'm a stack person. When something new pops up, a queue continues what they were doing. A stack switches. Obviously this is a spectrum, but I find it very easy to rationalize that the new tasks are "quick". Anyway, being a stack is hard with a new project. Every 2 minutes I discover something broken, and now I have to resist working on it.v

Live-coding using LÖVE: https://spectra.video/w/wkDB5fsjBNBbsqKXGhGzwT (video; 5 minutes)

A 4-minute video about my project to replace debuggers with print statements: https://handmade.network/snippet/1561

Weird, I just added hyperlinks to my text editor in 35 lines of code: https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines-and-links/commit/c81bedca8dddv. Some caveats, but still. This feels like a super power.