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Prior art for See It

Cellpond

“i can See It”

https://www.youtube.com/live/cBYudbaqHAk?si=MjZEz_TREL6DWtzX&t=7631

Chrome step debugger

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/javascript

we can do better!

^ this is a controversial opinion

Flowistry

https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry

In focus mode, Flowistry will automatically compute the information flow within a given function once you put your cursor there.

Video scrubber

Replay

https://www.replay.io/

Seymour: Live Programming for the Classroom

https://harc.github.io/seymour-live2017/

Visualising Sorting Algorithms

https://corte.si/posts/code/visualisingsorting/

Bubble Sort - An explorable explanation & introduction to algorithms

http://glench.com/BubbleSort/

Sorting algorithm visualisations moodboard

by Marcel Goethals

https://corte.si/posts/code/visualisingsorting/

tldraw

https://www.tldraw.com/

Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementation

https://silent-tower.net/projects/visual-overview-malloc

Silly Seet

https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C03RR0W5DGC/p1707432918721889

Hand-made contraptions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3keLeMwfHY

Defragmenting

Visualizing the Java heap to detect memory problems

The default display has the tree rooted at the left to growing toward the right, as shown in Figure 1. This figure shows the memory usage of a multi-body simulation program using Barnes-Hut. Each block in the diagram contains information as detailed in Figure 2. Vertical size is used to represent the amount of memory owned by the class. The children of a node are displayed to its right starting at the top, and are ordered from top to bottom by the amount of memory they own. This make it easy for the user to see where memory is being used in the application and to follow the ownership relation for a particular class. Moreover, each class has a gap on the right at the bottom of its display that represents the storage used just for theobjects of that class. For simple classes like String, this shows the overhead inherent in the String object as opposed to its char array contents. Next, we color the nodes based on the fraction of memory that the objects of that class actually occupy disregarding ownership. Here we use a scale that goes from green to red where red represents the class with the largest local memory usage. We also vary the intensity of the color of a node based on the fraction of the memory that it represents. This means that nodes that are replicated due to the conversion from a graph to a tree are shown in a lighter shade, with the actual shade being dependent on the amount of duplication

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221193019_Visualizing_the_Java_heap_to_detect_memory_problems

Hard drive noises

https://discord.com/channels/721409715602587698/1187501380999581757/1197975927003562136

Self-hosted Dynamicland

https://discord.com/channels/721409715602587698/1187501380999581757/1198052132402778273

Playable Quotes for Game Boy Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9JYOZWLMlo

Observable

https://observablehq.com/

Lambdu

https://www.lamdu.org/

Flowsheets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q

Tangible Functional Programming

http://conal.net/papers/Eros/

Subtext

https://www.subtext-lang.org/

PANE

https://joshuahhh.com/projects/pane/

This class that Joshua Horowitz was in

https://discord.com/channels/721409715602587698/1187501380999581757/1199064849745981440

Core war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

At the beginning of a game, each battle program is loaded into memory at a random location, after which each program executes one instruction in turn. The goal of the game is to cause the processes of opposing programs to terminate (which happens if they execute an invalid instruction), leaving the victorious program in sole possession of the machine.