Advent of FoC Day 2: Brutalist Convivial Computing with Teliva

Hi!

Welcome to the 2nd day of Advent of Future of Code!.

The Task

Today we are going to be playing with brutalist lua using Teliva, an environment for running shareable little text-mode Lua apps that are easy to modify.

Follow the instructions here: Brutalist Convivial Computing with Teliva

Resources

• Project Repository
• Project Author on Twitter (be kind): @akkartik
• email: ak at akkartik dot com
• There will be a thread for this task in the #share-your-work channel at the Future of Coding Slack

Rule Reminder

You should try to setup the project and complete the task, you can go further if you want.

Deliverable

• A video recording of you going through the whole process “thinking out loud”
• A transcription/notes/blogpost/twitter thread of the experience

Do

• Tell what’s your thinking process
• Explain when / where you get stuck, confused or frustrated
• Explain when something surprises you
• Explain if a thing reminds you of something else (for better or worse)
• Keep it positive and constructive

Don’t

• Say things you wouldn’t say face to face
• Tell how it should be fixed
• Propose features or changes
• Tell them to rewrite it in Rust
• Highlight superfluous details that don’t affect the task at hand (Unless requested by the project)

And above all, have fun!