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A new leaf
I'm currently remodeling my site a bit, so mind the dust while I clean up today. :)
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Overtone and ClojureScript
Lots of folks have been interested in ClojureScript lately, but have had a hard time figuring out what a CLJS app actually looks like. So today I recorded myself building an Overtone controller (that I...
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Connecting to your creation
edit: there is now a downloadable jar: https://github.com/ibdknox/live-cljs/downloads After seeing Bret Victor's talk, Inventing on Principle, the other night, I was curious how hard it would be to...
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Light Table - a new IDE concept
You can now try Light Table out via the Light Table Playground! Light Table's kickstarter has wrapped up! Despite the dramatic shift toward simplification in software interfaces, the world of...
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Light Table's numbers
EDIT: Light Table is now on kickstarter! EDIT: oh, and I set up a mailing list to keep informed. All I can say is "wow"! The response to Light Table has been far more positive and far greater than I...
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On concepts and realities
It's been really interesting seeing how people have responded to the idea of Light Table over the past week and understandably there have been a lot of questions as the ideas have sunk in (for me too)....
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We made it
After an amazing showing by the development community, Light Table has hit its goal of $200,000 with 20 days left to go! I want to extend my sincerest thanks to all of you who have helped spread the...
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An orange glow
I'm happy to announce that as of yesterday Light Table has joined a host of amazing startups for the Summer 2012 batch of YCombinator. Under the guidance of YC we believe we have the best possible...
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The future is specific
You can now try Light Table out via the Light Table Playground! I'm going to make a bold claim: The future of tools isn't in a better Eclipse or Visual Studio, it's in easily created domain specific...
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45 days later
Just a few moments ago our Kickstarter campaign closed with a truly amazing 7,317 backers at $316,720. It's been such a whirlwind story over the past 45 days from a simple blog post to what is now a...
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Ramblings
I love doing presentations and I'm happy to say that we have a few for Light Table lined up throughout the year: 6/7/2012 - Bay Area Clojure Meetup 7/19/2012 - OSCON 9/23/2012 - Strange Loop 11/7/2012...
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It's playtime - Light Table Playground released
I'm happy to announce the official release of the Light Table Playground! You can find instructions for getting it here: http://app.kodowa.com/playground What is the playground? The playground is a...
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Light Table - 24 hours later
Yesterday we released the playground to the world. It has been a ridiculous past 24 hours, so ridiculous in fact that I felt I had to share some of the numbers. Within the first 5 hours over 500,000...
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Light Table Playground Levels Up
I'm happy to announce the release of v0.0.7 of the Light Table Playground. This version is a serious upgrade to the Instarepl that brings the ability to manually evaluate things and work in your own...
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Light Table reaches 0.1.0
The Light Table Playground is getting a huge update today that we're really excited to show you. New to Light Table? It's a new kind of reactive IDE, check out the original post to learn more. A new...
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Light Table - Embracing Abstraction
Yesterday I gave a talk at Strange Loop about Light Table, in which I stressed the idea that we are not the "recipe writers" we used to describe ourselves as - that instead we are "abstractioners". We...
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All ideas are old ideas
My last post generated some discussion on telling people more about the ideas that came before Light Table. In many ways we've been rediscovering the past and since that initial blog post months ago,...
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Meet the new Light Table
We have to start with a picture. Or hey, just go download it and see for yourself. This is the new Light Table - rewritten from the ground up after having learned a ton about what it's going to take to...
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LightTable and the Node Knockout
Hey folks! As promised, we'll be live streaming from my laptop while we do the Node Knockout using Light Table this weekend. We'll be building a multiplayer platformer game in ClojureScript. Stream...
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Anatomy of a knockout
For the Node Knockout last month, we wanted to build a game in Light Table using ClojureScript. What we ultimately came up with was a fun little racing platformer called ChromaShift. All the code and...
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