Summary
Cockpit v0.4, The Start Ship
Screencasting always fascinated me. During the "Mozilla Minimo" days, when I worked from Brazil for Mozilla Labs - with Doug Turner and Chris Hoffman, I remember well how much I was using "Visinote". Visinote was likely one of the first desktop recording systems I have seen. And I was using to show progress. Those were the Visinote days, around 2005-2008. If I go back more, to the good old days of Silicon Valley before 2005, I recall I wanted to come up with something called "Reality Coding". The project wanted to be a way for a coder to cast her development, live. Now I am to some extent revisiting these ideas. Starting small, with screen recording, and with visual themes. The case "Cockpit v0.2" was produced. Most of these "Reality Building" episodes were recorded with that:
- #RealityBuilding - The cockpit office v0.2
- #RealityBuilding - #devops to improve web server certificates renewal flow
- #RealityBuilding - #marketing "walking mobile" to promote our startup idea
- #RealityBuilding - GPT and transparent images PNG
- #RealityBuilding - #Dev trying to improve a graphics card generator with dynamic font size
The next version of it? A space ship theme. And perhaps some user interface elements that are interactive - beyond the camera and desktop views. Perhaps a button, or another mechanism for sending a command, that turns on yellow alert mode.
Shell Commander v0.2
Controlling the shell is another interesting area. Or using AI systems to help us get going the things we are doing. This is another angle. This very simple project explores interfaces that help us to modify things. And with that, to understand things. Example:
The next generation of it? To be able to navigate through context and, based on that, to help the user build further. The next version might use the case of navigating through a computer directory as that sets a good challenge - how to navigate hierarchical trees.
