Rethinking CLI Interfaces for AI
https://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/

Rethinking CLI Interfaces for AI
https://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/
When you are using a laptop, do you prefer the touchpad or an external mouse?
Back in 1991, the sysops of the "STaTus BBS" in New Zealand created a #GUI for their board.
The system was powered by "Instant Graphics and Sound," a plain-text vector graphics scripting language for the Atari ST similar to RIPscrip, but predating it by several years.
Here's a video showing an IGS demo they made to give an idea of their impressive "GEM Desktop" #BBS interface:
But in all seriousness, being #ChronicallyIll and #ActuallyDisabled means that dealing with a constant flood of over-complicated #interfaces can be draining beyond my capacity for any given day.
And it feels pretty darned frustrating to be thwarted from doing laundry just because one doesn't have advanced degrees in graph theory or #cryptography and isn't up to dealing with all this just for some fresh clothes.
5/x
Now, among close friends, I am well known to be frustated by #interfaces that seem as complex as something the #nuclearIndustry needs for managing a reactor or starting Armageddon.
Indeed, with the same sorts of chips being used in all sorts of different devices, I am *slightly* worried that navigating the complexity of refuelling my vehicle might accidentally trigger said Armageddon.
Who knows where those codes could be hidden, amirite???!?
4/x
#Alexa got connected to #ChatGPT, and started responding to people with disinformation. #VoiceAssistants are #interfaces, and they have the power to amplify what data sources they are interfaced with.
Who controls what information is presented by a voice assistant? Who is liable for misinformation?
I explore these and other issues in my earlier blog post:
https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2023/02/19/the-mycroft-mark-ii-and-the-wind-down-of-mycroft-ai-its-all-about-ecosystems-infrastructures-and-the-friction-of-privacy/
(edited to include non-AMP link, thanks @bignose )
New Coding Shorts Video:
"Interface Default Implementations are Weird"
How to strenghten #Interfaces between #Science, #Policy & #Practice?
#CABES lauches its interdisciplinary #SPIBES MSc program in with early career scientists from 23 African countries in line with the @ipbes #capacitybuilding mandate.
Mostly, software interfaces are only defined by their signature and without a formal description of the admissible behavior and timing assumptions.
#ComMA provides a family of domain-specific languages that integrate existing techniques from formal behavioral and time modeling and is easily extensible.
#SoftwareEngineering
#Interfaces
#Modelling
#ModelChecking
#CodeGeneration
Hello la communaute #Linux et de #Dev
J'ai appris que le site web de #gtk a fait peau neuve : https://gtk.org/
Je trouve que c'est ergonomique et ca donne envie de developper des #applications avec toutes ces ressources documebtaires
2/ J'ai appris qu'on peut creer des #interfaces graphiques avec #GLADE
Mais est-ce que vous savez si on peut creer des interfaces #moderne avec GLADE et GTK ?
Il y a d'autres outils comme Glade ?