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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
Maggie Appleton
Maggie Appleton's digital garden of visual essays, notes, and patterns about programming, design, anthropology, and software.
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Programming Portals
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
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Programmable Notes
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows