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**Author:** [@system](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [4 January 2023 23:42 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/welcome-to-the-forum/7 "2023-01-04T23:42:25Z")
This is a long-form discussion forum for the malleable software community. You are welcome to share your malleable ideas and projects here. Our catalog is now hosted on this forum as well, and it is much easier to edit … --- ## [Decker](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/decker/154)
**Author:** [@johnearnest](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/johnearnest)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [19 October 2026 20:06 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/decker/154 "2026-10-19T20:06:39Z")
https://beyondloom.com/decker/ Tool by John Earnest (2022 – present) A multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. Decker builds on the… --- ## [LIVE 2026](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/live-2026/465)
**Author:** [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 October 2026 18:11 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/live-2026/465 "2026-10-17T18:11:54Z")
Today’s LIVE 2026 livestream! Lots of amazing projects coming up, some briefs mention projects presented on this forum in the past. It begins in an hour and all the talks can also be watched later on youtube. --- ## [Winter Substrates 2026 Workshop December 1st](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/winter-substrates-2026-workshop-december-1st/461)
**Author:** [@Bosmon](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/Bosmon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [8 October 2026 12:49 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/winter-substrates-2026-workshop-december-1st/461 "2026-10-08T12:49:35Z")
Dear all - we are now excited in the buildup to our Winter Substrates workshop which will take place in London on December 1st. You can see the event details at Winter Substrates 2026 · Luma - looking forward to seeing y… --- ## [Scavenger: Making the browser malleable again](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/scavenger-making-the-browser-malleable-again/460)
**Author:** [@octantes](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/octantes)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [6 October 2026 15:56 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/scavenger-making-the-browser-malleable-again/460 "2026-10-06T15:56:05Z")
Hi everyone! New here, I hope a project isn’t a bad way to introduce myself. TL;DR: scav lets you steal and rewire UI from websites and export a portable HTML file. I ran into malleability as a concept earlier this y… --- ## [Feedback on a malleable operating system](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/feedback-on-a-malleable-operating-system/230)
**Author:** [@Chase](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/Chase)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [10 September 2026 23:12 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/feedback-on-a-malleable-operating-system/230 "2026-09-10T23:12:03Z")
Hi, I’m Chase :wave: I’m part of a small team that’s working on a new kind of operating system which embodies many of the properties discussed in this forum. Here’s how we describe it: Pallas is an event sourced, pure… --- ## [Accidental complexity in "friendly" main program, a mini case study](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/accidental-complexity-in-friendly-main-program-a-mini-case-study/448)
**Author:** [@yihanwu1024](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/yihanwu1024)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [9 September 2026 03:22 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/accidental-complexity-in-friendly-main-program-a-mini-case-study/448 "2026-09-09T03:22:29Z")
If you need quick hands-on experience with accidental complexity, just try reproducing a computational experiment paper, which I unfortunately did recently, and very likely you will find these extremely helpful features: … --- ## [Fearless extensibility: Extending THINK Pascal](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/fearless-extensibility-extending-think-pascal/213)
**Author:** [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [30 August 2026 17:08 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/fearless-extensibility-extending-think-pascal/213 "2026-08-30T17:08:37Z")
I was thinking about the theme yesterday, and one of the idea I’d like to showcase is the fearless software extendability of the Macintosh, or how you can modify a closed-source program, from the outside, without recompi… --- ## [Genode OS](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/genode-os/458)
**Author:** [@Apostolis](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/Apostolis)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [30 August 2026 13:21 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/genode-os/458 "2026-08-30T13:21:30Z")
Genode The Genode OS Framework is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose operating systems. It scales from embedded systems with as little as 4 MB of memory to highly dynamic general-purpose workloads. I… --- ## [Spam mitigation](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/spam-mitigation/457)
**Author:** [@jryans](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/jryans)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [15 August 2026 16:02 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/spam-mitigation/457 "2026-08-15T16:02:51Z")
We’re seeing an increasing amount of spam accounts created to post links to random domains. (Thanks to everyone who has flagged spam posts for cleanup, that’s very helpful!) I have just enabled an hCaptcha challenge on … --- ## [The Idea Processor, or "What is the use case?"](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/the-idea-processor-or-what-is-the-use-case/357)
**Author:** [@natecull](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/natecull)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [8 August 2026 02:59 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/the-idea-processor-or-what-is-the-use-case/357 "2026-08-08T02:59:43Z")
Over on the “Next, OOP, WWW, HTML” thread, Akkartik challenged me with the question: It’s not clear to me what use cases motivate your search. I’ve been trying to bite my tongue and I’m failing… I feel some impatien… --- ## [Philosophy of object-orientation](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/philosophy-of-object-orientation/415)
**Author:** [@yihanwu1024](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/yihanwu1024)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [28 July 2026 14:09 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/philosophy-of-object-orientation/415 "2026-07-28T14:09:43Z")
This forum has been focusing on one property of object-oriented programming: data and the routines that are used to understand them are placed together (my summary of Alan Kay) or the extension of the above, by addin… --- ## [History as a First-class Citizen](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/history-as-a-first-class-citizen/293)
**Author:** [@yihanwu1024](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/yihanwu1024)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [21 July 2026 18:07 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/history-as-a-first-class-citizen/293 "2026-07-21T18:07:15Z")
I am surprised that the role of history in metaphysics was never mentioned on this forum, since many of you engage with some kind of “software philosophy”. I myself have been searching for the next philosophy that I can … --- ## [Vint Cerf on JCR Licklider's Vision](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/vint-cerf-on-jcr-lickliders-vision/439)
**Author:** [@natecull](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/natecull)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [6 July 2026 16:25 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/vint-cerf-on-jcr-lickliders-vision/439 "2026-07-06T16:25:13Z")
Reading the internet-history mailing list archives, found this post from 19 April 2026 (two months ago) J.C.R. Licklider, often called the "Computing's Johnny Appleseed," didn't just view electronic mail as a digital … --- ## [Bootstrappable Software](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/bootstrappable-software/149)
**Author:** [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [5 July 2026 06:13 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/bootstrappable-software/149 "2026-07-05T06:13:34Z")
Software is bootstrappable when it does not depend on a binary seed that cannot be built from source. Software that is not bootstrappable—even if it is free software—is a serious security risk for a variety of reasons. T… --- ## [Federated Wiki](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/federated-wiki/418)
**Author:** [@khinsen](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/khinsen)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [19 April 2026 09:56 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/federated-wiki/418 "2026-04-19T09:56:27Z")
http://fed.wiki.org/ Software, protocol, and associated workflows developed by Ward Cunningham and collaborators since 2011 A traditional wiki contains a single concensus version of each page. In Federated Wiki, partic… --- ## [Leverage points](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/leverage-points/429)
**Author:** [@khinsen](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/khinsen)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [1 July 2026 05:59 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/leverage-points/429 "2026-07-01T05:59:11Z")
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, by Article by Donella Meadows A much-quoted explanation of the multi-layer structure of complex systems, pointing to leverage points of increasing power where intervent… --- ## [Resistance to total software failure, a requirement for malleability.](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/resistance-to-total-software-failure-a-requirement-for-malleability/438)
**Author:** [@Apostolis](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/Apostolis)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [22 June 2026 15:20 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/resistance-to-total-software-failure-a-requirement-for-malleability/438 "2026-06-22T15:20:03Z")
Have you ever worked with a smalltalk system only for the system to crash and be unrecoverable? This is a total system failure, meaning that all your data and changes are lost. Thus, even though the system is malleable … --- ## [Lopecode: Self-editing, humanely embeddable Observable notebooks](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/lopecode-self-editing-humanely-embeddable-observable-notebooks/318)
**Author:** [@Bosmon](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/Bosmon)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [26 May 2026 19:12 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/lopecode-self-editing-humanely-embeddable-observable-notebooks/318 "2026-05-26T19:12:18Z")
https://tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopecode/webpage.html Tool by Tom Larkworthy (2025) Announced by Chris Shank in this Bluesky posting The hermetic, self-hosted, self-sustainable, recursively exportable, offline-first,… --- ## [Cuneiforth](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/cuneiforth/428)
**Author:** [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [23 May 2026 18:04 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/cuneiforth/428 "2026-05-23T18:04:27Z")
Here’s a very cool project based on Kay’s Chifir, it asks the question: if I give you this image, are you able to build a working computer to evaluate the code hidden in it. https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=thelam… --- ## [Collaboratory for Advanced Malleable Systems Research](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/collaboratory-for-advanced-malleable-systems-research/421)
**Author:** [@eliot](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/eliot)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [13 May 2026 21:12 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/collaboratory-for-advanced-malleable-systems-research/421 "2026-05-13T21:12:08Z")
“Collaboratory” is a portmanteau of collaboration and laboratory, a word that came to mind while thinking about how empirical research and the experimental method can be applied to further our understanding and developme… --- ## [OPHANIM / NegI – a composability substrate for fearless, malleable software](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/ophanim-negi-a-composability-substrate-for-fearless-malleable-software/426)
**Author:** [@Z\_Z](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/Z_Z)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [12 May 2026 17:16 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/ophanim-negi-a-composability-substrate-for-fearless-malleable-software/426 "2026-05-12T17:16:47Z")
The problem as I see it Today’s software is largely a collection of walls. Each application or library lives in its own silo, with hard-coded APIs and implicit assumptions about the environment. Recombining pieces or let… --- ## [Substrates 2026 proceedings now online](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/substrates-2026-proceedings-now-online/427)
**Author:** [@Bosmon](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/Bosmon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [11 May 2026 15:39 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/substrates-2026-proceedings-now-online/427 "2026-05-11T15:39:36Z")
The proceedings for March’s workshop in Munich are now online: Substrates 2026 - Proceedings - there is a great richness of thought here and I think you will enjoy reading through the contributions and their reviews - A… --- ## [Building tools to make expression accessible, accurate, and economical](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/building-tools-to-make-expression-accessible-accurate-and-economical/425)
**Author:** [@amirouche](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/amirouche)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [4 May 2026 22:59 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/building-tools-to-make-expression-accessible-accurate-and-economical/425 "2026-05-04T22:59:31Z")
What does it mean for a programming language to follow first malleable.systems principle: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it My medium is code, and its infrastructure is the 1) language, 2) its imp… --- ## [Kooltool](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/kooltool/423)
**Author:** [@and](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/and)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [29 April 2026 03:07 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/kooltool/423 "2026-04-29T03:07:20Z")
Tool by candle (2014, last updated 2017) kooltool is simple tool for making cute scrappy games. kooltool lets you build tile-based worlds that you edit in a “what you see is what you get” manner. there is support for… --- ## [UXN and Varvara](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/uxn-and-varvara/107)
**Author:** [@natecull](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/natecull)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [26 April 2026 16:36 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/uxn-and-varvara/107 "2026-04-26T16:36:32Z")
Hi all. Been reading for a while, but this is my first post here. I wonder if anyone has come across the Hundred Rabbits “UXN/Varvara” virtual machine, and what your thoughts might be on it as a platform for malleable s… --- ## [Tote: Multiset Rewriting Language](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/tote-multiset-rewriting-language/285)
**Author:** [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [17 January 2025 20:30 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/tote-multiset-rewriting-language/285 "2025-01-17T20:30:43Z")
Tool by Rek Bellum, Devine Lu Linvega (2025) I’ve been interested for a while in symbolic visual programming, and I made a IDE to test some ideas around writing GUIs entirely in multiset rewrite rules. Tote is a playg… --- ## [Modal](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/modal/183)
**Author:** [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [26 April 2026 15:35 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/modal/183 "2026-04-26T15:35:37Z")
Hi, I’d like to show you a language by wryl that I’ve enjoyed learning these past few weeks, and that might be of interest to you all. It’s relevant to Malleable systems as it’s a very small runtime(200 lines of C), cap… --- ## [McCulloch-Pitts Neural Nets](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/mcculloch-pitts-neural-nets/303)
**Author:** [@neauoire](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/neauoire)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [26 April 2026 15:34 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/mcculloch-pitts-neural-nets/303 "2026-04-26T15:34:43Z")
Post by Devine Lu Linvega (2025) In exploring parallel rewriting systems, I stumbled onto something like neural networks and it pushed me to dive deeper into the topic and learning how they worked. I was surprised how… --- ## [Ara: creative workspace on collective wisdom](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/ara-creative-workspace-on-collective-wisdom/420)
**Author:** [@ahmetson](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/ahmetson)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 April 2026 08:44 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/ara-creative-workspace-on-collective-wisdom/420 "2026-04-16T08:44:48Z")
Ara Whitepaper Whitepaper by Medet Ahmetson 2026 Although, the whitepaper talks through the prism of the blockchain, its not a typical blockchain project. Ara is a framework to provide a software ownership to the user… [Next page](https://forum.malleable.systems/latest.md?page=1)