"filesystem as function" (@maxkriegers)https://twitter.com/wormplaza/status/1098435220615909377 …
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OK, you could take this to absurdity — folders as factorio-style machines / minecraft crafting. But some stuff would be insanely practical: - Everything I drag here is compressed and resized to max. 400x600px - Everything I drag here is merged - Everything is converted to PDF
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Wondering if the early developers of the desktop metaphor ever went so far? Cause e.g. the idea of dropping a file onto a printer to print it, or dropping it into the trash, is kinda similar to stuff like this.
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yeah, now that I think about it, it feels like a missed opportunity that desktop computing doesn't have any notion of... computations... on your desktop, just dead files and folders
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smalltalk on the xerox alto definitely had this. there are some plugins that can let you do neat stuff on the desktop like ubersicht for mac
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