27 // Playful software with Rasmus Andersson

Design and engineering polymath Rasmus Andersson joins Mark and Adam to talk about his new project, Playbit. Play as a means of discovery and learning; virtualization as an underexploited technology for making safe playspaces for programming; and whether macOS will still exist in ten years.

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Show notes

• Rasmus Andersson @rsms
• Playbit
• What counts as a weed?
• maskros flowers
• “write access to your entire worldview”
• Jason Yuan on fidgitability
• Virginia Postrel on work vs play
• Rust
• Roadster in space
• foam roll
• “Adamisms” e.g. make it real
• Hobo
• Go, Go by Example
• slow hunch
• malleable software
• xorg.conf
• convention over configuration
• macOS notarization woes
• Chrome OS
• sandboxing
• GPU
• time-sharing
• write once, run anywhere
• macOS virtualization, Hyper-V, KVM
• Linux namespaces
• Ruby gem: bundle
• root user
• An app can be a home-cooked meal
• Replit
• Dreams
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Macromedia Director
• demoscene, BBS culture
• MOD trackers
• Gameboy DJ performance
• Raspberry Pi
• flip displays
• teenage engineering
• Alfazeta flipdots vendor