Michael Homer (@mwh.nz)

Michael Homer

@mwh.nz

I make programming languages and interfaces at Victoria University of Wellington

LIVE 2026, the workshop exploring making programming more direct, tangible, and alive, takes place free online on 17 October, 1900-2300 UTC LIVE features talks from academics, industry, and individuals. The schedule and presentation abstracts are on https:// liveprog.org/ We hope to see you there!

liveprog.orgWorkshop on Live Programming (LIVE)The 12th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2026) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.

Michael Homer

@mwh.nz

This year we have a keynote address from Brian Hempel on combining GUI manipulations with programs, and presentations on programming in VR, by direct manipulation, without source code, with a COME HERE instruction, using the background as part of the program, and point-free programming with a point.

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Devamardeep Hayatpur

@devamarh.bsky.social

26 July

There are just three days left to submit to LIVE (we have extended the deadline to the 28th!) If you're looking for thoughtful feedback on new, experimental programming systems, please do consider submitting! Submissions can be short papers, web essays with embedded videos, or a demo video.

Michael Homer@mwh.nz

If you're working on a novel programming system, this is for you! It's a great chance to share your thinking and hear from others. Got questions about how your work fits or how to present it? Get in touch! Submissions are due July 21st. LIVE is free online to attend and submit to. liveprog.org/

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Are you working to make programming more direct, tangible, and alive? Share your work at LIVE, the world's premier gathering on live programming, held online this October! LIVE welcomes submissions from academia, industry, and individuals. Call for submissions and more details on liveprog.org/

Timely as ever, I have released an MS-DOS shareware game in 2025: mhomer.itch.io/cromavor A turn-based quick territorial acquisition game, it runs under DOSBox and it should also be playable in-browser at mwh.nz/dos/cromavor

mhomer.itch.ioCromavor by mhomerTurn-based territorial game for DOS

Michael Homer

@mwh.nz

13 Oct 2025

Fast & Easy ASTs for Flexible Embedded Interpreters, in MPLR this week. A format encoding ASTs as simultaneously valid code in languages from Java to Haskell to Excel, allowing programs, parsers, and typecheckers to be serialised and loaded into interpreters in that language. mwh.nz/pubs/mplr25

mwh.nzFast & Easy ASTs for Flexible Embedded InterpretersSelf-hosted software language systems need to bootstrap core components such as data structure libraries, parsers, type checkers, or even compilers. Bytecode interpreters can load byte code files, whi...

Michael Homer

@mwh.nz

13 Oct 2025

PDF: mwh.nz/pdf/mplr25 Live demo: mwh.nz/demos/mplr2025 (generate freestanding single-file Java, Haskell, JavaScript programs embedding a program as the same AST) Implementation, and interpreters built on a shared parser embedded this way in Java, Haskell, JavaScript, and Grace: github.com/mwh/wg

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Josh Horowitz

@joshuahhh.com

16 June 2025

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ALSO: We're hosting LIVE office hours this week! Bring questions/uncertainties about live programming & submitting to the workshop. - Wed, June 18, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM (PDT, UTC-7) - Thu, June 19, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT, UTC-7) Visit liveprog.org#resources for local times & Zoom links. 🙏

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Josh Horowitz

@joshuahhh.com

11 June 2025

For software to be malleable, we need ways of building and modifying programs that are accessible to many more people. Are you working on new interfaces for programming? Share your progress at the LIVE workshop! Submissions are due July 21st. liveprog.org (Happy to chat if you have questions!)

Josh Horowitz@joshuahhh.com

Computing could be a more harmonious and empowering force in our lives if we could mold it to our needs. We wrote a little about this vision of "malleable software" – past, present, and future. www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

inkandswitch.comMalleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down appsThe original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

Michael Homer

@mwh.nz

31 Dec 2024

Useful to nobody: generate accurate Windows 3.x dither patterns for any colour in your browser. mwh.nz/dither/

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Ivy Reese

@spiralganglion.com

29 Nov 2024

Every month, we do a Future of Coding bonus episode. They're mint. $5. Helps us do the show. You know the deal. This time, @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social and moi share a *lot lot* of thoughts about Visual Programming, circling @mwh.nz's Reclaiming The Unexplored. www.patreon.com/posts/reclai...

patreon.comReclaiming the Unexplored in Hybrid Visual Programming | Future of CodingGet more from Future of Coding on Patreon

Michael Homer

@mwh.nz

14 Oct 2024

Next week I will be at SPLASH in Pasadena and presenting my work at Onward! about variety in visual programming systems. I'll also be at LIVE, PAINT, and the unconference on Saturday. mwh.nz/pubs/onward2...

mwh.nzReclaiming the Unexplored in Hybrid Visual ProgrammingProgramming languages have been trapped in a world of linear textual representations fundamentally unchanged for half a century. Even systems pushing beyond these forms — visual languages, projectiona...

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