alt Hacker NewsAlso it'd be nice to have something that is more spatial. A famous memory technique is remembering where things are in space[1], but I've never seen a code browser that works spatially. (I have no idea how to actually do this.)
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xkriva11 • yesterday at 10:00 AM
The paper printouts on the table are a kind of simple spatial browser. Thanks to this, we have UNIX (at least it explains how they were able to create anything at all with just a teletype back then).
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pegasus • yesterday at 11:21 AM
Check out Code Bubbles: https://www.andrewbragdon.com/codebubbles_site.asp
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Self's environment was a panning desktop where you would inspect an object's slots and as you kept opening things, they would exist in some space nearby. You could, in theory, keep these things open and have a much more spatial feeling about the system.
I don't remember there being any way to collapse and re-expand this context so that it could persist yet be out of the way when you didn't want to look at it.