Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies
Summary
The talk argues that two accidental tyrannies—the app-centric one-size-fits-all software and the programming specialization culture—limit invention. It advocates malleable, composable interfaces enabled by coding agents (and CodeMirror) to empower end users and domain experts to prototype and extend complex tools, using Obsidian as a case study and proposing a unified 'physics' of reading and editing environments.