A Call for New Aesthetics, or What Was Modernism? Hello all, Maybe some of you have seen this Call for New Aesthetics coming from Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen. The debate is couched in a kind of lingering sensation among the powers that be in Silicon Valley that we need a new culture to step into the future. You can see this in some of PC’s recent tweets about the return of Catholicism in Silicon Valley, etc, but this time around it’s architecture and design. Perhaps from my sparse contributions to this forum, you may expect that I’m skep...

> The modernist architect, if successful, is invisible.

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GitHub - Daniel15/WebCamControl: Control pan, tilt, zoom, etc for webcams. Linux alternative to Insta360 Link Controller. Control pan, tilt, zoom, etc for webcams. Linux alternative to Insta360 Link Controller. - Daniel15/WebCamControl

Very fun, interesting, worthy article. The hacker spirit, slinging together interesting solutions is on such display here. Wishing them the best. #malleablesystems #malleablesoftware

For the Linux users, yes, someone has liberated controls for the Insta360 Link webcam.
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Really enjoyed connecting this to the #HomeCookedSoftware and #MalleableSoftware / #MalleableSystems world's.

Overall it's weird that situated software / home cooked is such a distinct class unto itself. Malleable wants to let us situate existing software better.

Of all the systems & software out there, making *this* (atproto) emerged sovereign interconnected social software system malleable ranks *very* high in priority.

More to gain from expanding liberties here than from most any other base.
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Some useful out of box functionality, but setting forth a pattern for having HTML elements on the page talk to each other (without that talking being in js)!

Starting place/vast boon for a #ViewSource #MalleableSystems web.

Technology headed so hard towards fixed design, to every possibility needing design & then getting hard coded in as a possibility/option. It's such a curse, forever holding us as lowly consumers of mere appliances.

We direly need #MalleableSystems, where systems have extensibility & users can shape

The inability of agents to let us use space as we would imagine is an enormous user agency violation, one that both sites can help at but also which clients and extensions ought help expand our agency into. #malleablesystems

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

I loved beyond words @maggieappleton.com's *Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers* talk, which super supposed that AI can be such a malleable software enabler! Heck yes!

But that's not the *whole* of the context of #MalleableSystems. It's one enabler.
maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-...

It'd be so so good to have some scope CSS norms emerge, for it to start to hit somehow with the #malleablesystems / userstyled lands.

Challenge problem: Fearless extensibility As I recently mentioned, I’d like us to try a challenge problem as a new community activity. Theme The theme for the first challenge problem is “fearless extensibility”. Why “fearless”…? Allowing ext...

If you have thoughts on extensions or plugin systems consider submitting to the malleable systems challenge problem on fearless extensibility: forum.malleable.systems/t/challenge-...

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