This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is AnnMarie Thomas — an engineering, business, and education professor. AnnMarie gave one of the opening keynotes titled “Playing with Engineering.” We also caught up with many first-time and multi-time attendees who shared their favorite moments from Strange Loop over the years. You’ll hear from Richard Feldman, Colin Dean, and Taylor Troesh. Last up we talk with Pokey Rule. He gave a talk about his project called Cursorless which is a spoken language for structural code editing.
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Show Notes:
Also, a huge thanks to Alex Miller (the organizer of Strange Loop) for being so kind to us and getting us there for the final Strange Loop. It was quite the experience.
AnnMarie
OK Go Sandbox.org
Richard Feldman
roc-lang.org
Colin Dean
Code & Supply
Taylor Troesch
taylor.town
Pokey Rule
Cursorless
Changelog Interviews #423: Coding without your hands (with Josh Comeau)
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Pokey Rule about using his voice to code, and the current state of voice coding software.
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Show Notes 00:33 Welcome
01:35 Guest introduction
Con 2021 - Cursorless: keyboards and mice are sooo last year!! by Pokey Rule
Emily Shea
05:12 How does coding with your voice work?
Talon Voice
Cursorless Talon
09:45 How do you handle triggering wrong words?
11:41 Sponsor: The Stack Overflow Podcast
12:26 Example of voice coding
Parrot
14:21 What are the noises you make for?
24:29 Working on multiple lines at the same time
27:37 How do you decide where the hats go?
31:18 Sponsor: directus
32:59 What is the community of users like for this?
Tree Sitter
“Incremental, zero-config Code Nav using stack graphs” by Douglas Creager
35:20 Does eye tracking work?
36:48 What kind of mic do you use?
DPA Microphone
The Voice Book
39:25 Supper Club questions
Dark Abyss VS Code theme
Kinesis Freestyle 2
Charybdis Nano keyboard
Nexstand
Arxiv Sanity
Subvocal Recognition
Imagen Research
Midjourney
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××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Git Imerge
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