Lu Wilson
Software Engineer at tldraw
Lu Wilson
Software Engineer at tldraw
Lu Wilson creates slightly-surreal films about their creative-coding projects under the Todepond moniker. They're an active part of the global live coding and algorave community, as well as the mass collaborative leaderless group known as "Pastagang" where they contribute to open source music-making software. In their day job, Lu designs and builds experimental prototypes as a contractor, and is currently working with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Upcoming conference sessions featuring Lu Wilson
Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvizational jazz to engineering
"Jam-oriented programming" is the joke name of a new style of software development that is no joke at all. It adopts the practices and mentalities of an informal jam session to an extreme extent.
In a typical jam, there is no one in charge and anyone can make any sound they want at any time they choose. In jam-oriented programming, it's the same. Anyone can add, edit or delete code without any permission. Everyone is admin, nothing is certain and anything can happen. It sounds like chaos and it is. But it's also surprisingly successful, with entire music-making tools appearing overnight out of the multi-headed process and even a published academic paper to accompany it all.
How and why is this even possible? And what does it tell us about the way we collaborate as developers?
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Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvizational jazz to engineering
"Jam-oriented programming" is the joke name of a new style of software development that is no joke at all. It adopts the practices and mentalities of an informal jam session to an extreme extent.
In a typical jam, there is no one in charge and anyone can make any sound they want at any time they choose. In jam-oriented programming, it's the same. Anyone can add, edit or delete code without any permission. Everyone is admin, nothing is certain and anything can happen. It sounds like chaos and it is. But it's also surprisingly successful, with entire music-making tools appearing overnight out of the multi-headed process and even a published academic paper to accompany it all.
How and why is this even possible? And what does it tell us about the way we collaborate as developers?
Get conference pass
Content featuring Lu Wilson
Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas
Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas
Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas
Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas
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