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# Interesting Links

[](https://hackmd.io/beVS8KuiTTKFVPeLD4-t-A)

- [Programs are a prison](https://djrobstep.com/posts/programs-are-a-prison) - [hackernews discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24999103)
- [Membrane.io](//membrane.io) - [Blog post](https://medium.com/@juancampa/web-apis-game-engines-and-the-universal-inspect-button-4c49eac1073c)
- [Hope](//poef.github.io/hope/) and [Cobalt](//github.com/poef/cobalt/)
- [Vega](https://vega.github.io/vega/) and [Vega Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/)
- [Nushell](https://www.nushell.sh/)
- [HyperCard](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/)
- [Lively-Next](https://lively-next.org/)
- [Oberon OS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system))
- [Killing Apps](https://humane.computer/killing-apps/), [Unifying Web and Native Systems ](https://humane.computer/unifying-web-and-native-systems/) - [Humane Computer](https://humane.computer/)
- [Webstrates](https://webstrates.net/)
- [Yahoo Pipes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes)
- [What should follow the web](https://blog.plan99.net/what-should-follow-the-web-8dcbbeaccd93)
- [Seif](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUXootHAnfk) - by [Douglas Crockford](https://www.crockford.com/seif.html)
- [Lunatic](https://github.com/lunatic-lang/lunatic) - [Blog post](https://dev.to/bkolobara/writing-rust-the-elixir-way-2lm8)

## Decentralized Web Ecosystem
- [5 projects that are decentralizing the web](https://blog.textile.io/five-projects-that-are-decentralizing-the-web-in-slightly-different-ways/)
- [IPFS](//ipfs.io/)
- [Textile.io](https://textile.io/)
- [Textile javascript client](https://blog.textile.io/introducing-the-textile-javascript-client/)
- [IPFS Links](https://blog.textile.io/ipfs-experiments-creating-ipfs-links-that-you-can-delete/)
- [Ceramic Network](https://www.ceramic.network/)
- [Introducing Ceramic](https://medium.com/ceramic/introduction-to-the-ceramic-protocol-8d56951ae3f)
- [Pinate Cloud](https://pinata.cloud/) - IPFS pinning service
- [Solid](https://solidproject.org) - brainchild of sir Time Berners-Lee
- [Solid OS](https://github.com/solid/solidos)
- [Fluence Network](https://fluence.network/)
- [Redshirt OS](https://github.com/tomaka/redshirt)

## Talks

- [Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful](https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t=1429) - starting at an alternative look on what a browser should be.
- [Ted Nelson: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs&list=PL0U64PMQ76S37WdRQzelUM__ms-OseTCm&index=27)
- [Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs&t=38s)
- [Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc)
- [The Mother of all Demo's - Douglas Engelbert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhEh3tEL1V4)
- [Ted's Ted Talk - Ted Nelson - 1990](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUTmmwbkN6Y)

## The Basics

- [As We May Think - Vannevar Bush](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/)
- [Hypertext - Ted Nelson](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800197.806036) ([non paywalled](http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS835/Lec3/nelson.pdf))
- [Xanadu 17 Rules](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rules)
- [The Future of Programming - Bret Victor](http://worrydream.com/dbx/) - [youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4)