Update: I’ve been spending a lot of time lately trying to make my phone more malleable. The new Freewheeling App is a cross-platform programming environment for little scripts called Lua Carousel.
Part of my goal for Lua Carousel is a durable artifact that seldom requires updates. Still very much aspirational (15 versions in 30 days), but it’s gotten me to focus on a cultural problem I’d face if I ever achieved my goal: projects with no updates look dead. But I think I’m figuring out an answer: to show that a project is alive, continually show it being used. Then it won’t matter that it’s not updated. In this vein I’ve been trying to share little programs using Lua Carousel on a near-daily basis:
For example, today I made a tutorial showing 4 kinds of widgets: button, slider, text editor and audio recorder/player. They now exist in Lua Carousel in a form factor suitable for mixing and matching right on your phone, the site of use for any scripts you create.
All this is still following my Freewheeling principles, of course. Lua Carousel is a simple download on Android (installing LÖVE is more complex on iOS but possible, which is in itself a huge accomplishment). Now it’s also portable. You can still edit its sources live while it runs (albeit only on a computer).