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ok my first thought was that this was evil my second thought is holy shit this is the future

exploring a few different modalities... rn for dragging you inline uses one at a time, last consuming the def. alternatively you can bulk inline via menu. for the most part the drag interactions arent per-refactor bespoke, but are synthesized generically via [upcoming joint work w @joshuahhh.com]

[revisited thought] interesting how the nolan odyssey temptations were so sexless. like the siren song was middle aged loss and nostalgia. not wrong per se just an interesting approach to the material

Oh my god this is how I learned math I literally had a bespoke computer program in elementary school (my parents got in on some stanford study ig) that let me click and drag elements and watch the syntax change while the semantics stayed the same

ooo cool. curious if that program every surfaced publicly? dragon box is the main thing i know in that space. im also working on a math edu-ish thing powered by the same lib as above

I did some AI-assisted research, and it turns out I was blending two memories. I did do probably an EPGY program, but the dragging mechanic I remember from Pacific Tech’s Graphing Calculator app for Mac.

I should have remembered, tbh; I was so enchanted by the usability of that graphing calculator that I paid my own money for a copy as an adult