By Clemens Klokmose. Review of Webstrates through Borowski, M., Murray, L., Bagge, R., Kristensen, J. B., Satyanarayan, A., & Klokmose, C. N. (2022). Varv: Reprogrammable Interactive Software as a Declarative Data Structure. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–20.
“Software isn’t very {soft} at all.”
“The application model violates {personal digital sovereignty}.”
(^ a nice term)
“It’s easy to make Javascript editable, but it’s hard to make it accessible for anyone except for the authors to edit it.”
Q. Three qualities for compultational media which Clemens Klokmose adds to his original three (malleable, shareable, distributable)?
A. composable, interoperable, computable
Q. What does Klokmose mean by “composable software”?
A. Users can combine tools across application boundaries to incrementally add functionality.
Q. What does Klokmose mean by “interoperable software”?
A. Users can collaborate on shared data with their own tools.