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Always Already Programming

Everyone who interacts with computers has in important ways always already been programming them.

Every time you make a folder or rename a file on your computer, the actions you take through moving your mouse and clicking on buttons, translate into text-based commands or scripts which eventually translate into binary.

Why are the common conceptions of programmer and user so divorced from each other? The distinction between programmer and user is reinforced and maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. If we accept and adopt the role of less agency, we then make it harder for ourselves to come into more agency.

We've unpacked the "user" a little, now let's look at the "programmer." When a programmer is writing javascript, they are using prewritten, packaged functions and variables in order to carry out the actions they want their code to do. In this way, the programmer is also the user. Why is using pre-made scripts seen

This is a very rough demonstration of how to embed Hypothesis in a single page app.

When you click on the "Go to page two" button it loads the second "page" of the app. This page is just loaded by JavaScript, without having the browser load a new page as it would normally do when following a link. Importantly the JavaScript code does change URL in the browser's location bar though, using history.pushState(). Before changing the URL it unloads Hypothesis from the page, and after changing the URL it reloads Hypothesis into the page. This is to work around a limitation with Hypothesis - it doesn't detect URL changes done by pushState() and reload the annotations.

	import { useState } from "react";
	import ky from "ky";
	import cheerio from "cheerio";

	function App() {
	const [url, setUrl] = useState("");
	const [title, setTitle] = useState("");
	const [faviconUrl, setFaviconUrl] = useState("");

	const handleSubmit = async () => {

	Copy this to roam/js page, including the "{{[[roam/js]]}}" node:

	- {{[[roam/js]]}}
	- ```javascript
	/*
	* Roam template PoC by @ViktorTabori
	* 0.1alpha
	*
	* How to install it:
	* - go to `roam/js` page`

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Rich Text Editor</title>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	var oDoc, sDefTxt;

	function initDoc() {
	oDoc = document.getElementById("textBox");
	sDefTxt = oDoc.innerHTML;

	// 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑 Infographics UX PWA Typescript Svelte ThreeJS Vue ✨
	let neodigmToast = (function(_d, eID, _q) {
	let _nTimeout = 5800, _aQ = [], _eSb, _eSbText, _sTheme
	let bIsInit = bIsPause = false
	let _fOpen = function() {
	_eSbText.innerHTML = _aQ[0].sMsg.replace("\|", "<br>").replace("##", "")
	_eSb.style.left = ((_d.body.clientWidth / 2) - (_eSb.clientWidth / 2)) + "px"
	if( _aQ[0].sTheme ) _eSb.dataset.n55Theme = _aQ[0].sTheme
	if( _sTheme ) {
	_eSb.dataset.n55Theme = _sTheme