Clip: @genmon.fyi's multi cursor website as an example of how to compute as a group.

@paul-rony.bsky.social "Any layer on the computer should be a playground for all of the users. Should be doable with what we have today"

It's Berlin. Obvs we're going to have Club Mate available to keep hydrated -- regular and pomegranate.

And Rhabarberschorle

Rupert Manfredi joins us to give a lightning talk "Introducing Web Applets" — a new open standard for allowing language models to use rich, graphical software, built upon the web. They are small, local-first, interoperable bits of software.

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Tomáš Mládek's talk is "The Missing Link" — our computing environments lack suitable primitives for the relations *between* objects. Does everything need to turn into a soup of tags or endless RDF schemas? The humble link may still have lessons to offer.

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Aayush Gupta is presenting "ZK Email: Anonymous Verified Whistleblowing, Identity Proofs, and New Cryptographic Unlocks", briefly introducing zero knowledge and then explain the ZK Email primitive.

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Sören Klein will be presenting his Ember Nexus project, an open source knowledge graph management software: it was created to bring data together, regardless of its origin or structure, to connect data elements amidst themselves and externally, securely.

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Anselm Eickhoff presents his talk "Tall abstractions to bridge Turing tarpits: two abstractions I’ve encountered that feel profoundly different: actor/object systems and CRDTs - lifting us to new heights with barely any computational material"

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Alice @alice.bsky.sh is joining us to present "Old Web Fun with a New Protocol Feel: The Joy of an Extensible and Open Social Network", talking about @atproto.com

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Maciej Godek presents a lightning talk "What I want from a coding tool: GRASP - a structure editor with tactile interface and support for interactive visual syntax"

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Arbor is an artist and inventor using light as a medium and creating novel interfaces. He currently studies Art and Media at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). His lightning talk is "Cut-ups for Digital Media"

See his talk berlin.causalislands... & more at https://derrekchow.com/

Bernhard Mayr is presenting a lightning talk "Holey - Towards Incomplete but Executable Programs: ideas of hole-driven programming to enhance the liveness of writing code by creating malleable artifacts that can be evolved naturally."

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We have @Paul_Rony presenting "From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us"

He asks how we can return computers to being built and used by groups?

Paul’s passion for tech started when he found an old Atari 800 in his grandmother attic.

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Alicia Guo is a computational artist and poet based in Seattle, currently pursuing a PhD working on creativity support tools.

She joins us with a talk "Learning from Poetic Practices: Creativity Through Computational Means"

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Speaker Marek Rogalski @mafikpl is currently working on blurring the lines between users & developers using visual programming.

Presenting "Snappy Animations - numerical tricks for low-latency visual feedback". Make your user interface feel amazing!

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Happy Monday everyone! We've got a great set of speakers and talks published to the website for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th & 5th!

Read all about them and the provisional schedule on the website, where you can also buy tickets berlin.causalislands...

The Causal Islands Berlin website is looking pretty! Thanks @orionreed.bsky.social for putting this together!

Keynote speakers for each day have been announced, thank you Andrés Cuervo and Lu Wilson @todepond.com for joining us.

If you want to submit a CFP, do it RIGHT NOW!  

Thank you to Garden Computing for supporting us with a community supporter ticket for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th - 5th

Garden Computing are building Jazz Tools - a new way to build apps with distributed state https://jazz.tools/
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Thanks @tomlarkworthy for becoming a Community Sponsor. Tom says “happy to support your wonderful work”

Tom is an Observable ambassador observablehq.com/@to...

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