{"id":952,"date":"2016-01-31T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T03:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=952"},"modified":"2016-02-01T12:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:17:02","slug":"ch-ch-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"ch-ch-changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened in the last year.\u00a0I left MIT and joined CDG (Alan Kay&#8217;s lab), working with Alex Warth. I&#8217;ve been going to LA a lot. We are working on an end-user programming tool called Transcript.<\/p>\n<p>My Holy Grail has been to radically simplify\u00a0professional programming. I now realize that simplification is not fundamentally a technical problem but rather a cultural one. Our nerd culture embraces inhuman levels of complexity. Mastering mind-boggling\u00a0complexity is our mutant superpower. It is our tribal marker. Complexity is the air we breath, and so it is invisible to us. Simplification will\u00a0only come from outside this culture. To disrupt programming I first have to reinvent it for a fresh audience of non-programmers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XBpwysZtkkQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">video<\/a> of our first (very rough and preliminary) talk about Transcript.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened in the last year.\u00a0I left MIT and joined CDG (Alan Kay&#8217;s lab), working with Alex Warth. I&#8217;ve been going to LA a lot. We are working on an end-user programming tool called Transcript. My Holy Grail has been to radically simplify\u00a0professional programming. I now realize that simplification is not fundamentally a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ch-ch-changes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfEnU-fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}