writing-list/txt/pp3.md

![trolley de la muerte](img/trolley.jpg)

-   _kamo_ _he/hum_ _IT_
-   background
-   development of custom software
-   to facilitate
-   agency-on
-   comprehension-of
-   complex systems
-   before XPUB
-   tools were never the main focus
-   just instruments to be activated
-   within particular contexts
-   tailored to specific moments
-   then forgotten

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-   During first year at XPUB something changed
-   Working together with my classmates
-   let me realize the importance of
-   sharing tools
-   develop not just for myself
-   but also for others
-   together with others
-   **code as common**
-   importance to create a space
-   for these tools to circulate
-   importance to build narrations
-   around these instruments

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-   Prototyping writing machines
-   to keep track of what's happening around us
-   _CMS_
-   [wiki based](/soupboat/padliography/)
-   [git based](/soupboat/~kamo/)
-   [jupiter notebook based](/soupboat/si16/)
-   _Cookbooks_
-   [soups](/soupboat/soup-gen/)
-   [reading methods](https://issue.xpub.nl/18/06/)
-   _Notation systems_
-   [to annotate images](/soupboat/si16/annotation-compass/annotate/Naamloos 1.png/)
-   [to annotate synth](https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/workbook/instruments/test_instrument/add)
-   _Web-to-print_
-   [click to print 80 000 post-it](/soupboat/postit)
-   [libretto for emergent opera](https://issue.xpub.nl/18/03/)
-   [this and other lists](..)
-   collecting things
-   connecting things

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-   Every machine implies a different way to think
-   requires to balance between different priorities
-   accessibility
-   susteinability
-   flexibility

![goat and cheese](img/sheep_rider.jpg)

-   Software development
-   as a form of publishing
-   as a form of care
-   how to
-   weave together multiple voices
-   open to diverse knowledges
-   share pov around software
-   _??????_

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-   Started thinking about **documentation**
-   interface between
-   code
-   user
-   developer
-   world
-   **not just as technical writing**
-   **but also worldbuilding**
-   to orientate code in the world
-   everything is a file
-   everything is a frog

![pad as frogs](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/pad-bis/media/branch/master/lifecycle.jpg)

-   Hackpacts
-   README.md
-   Documentation for the Padliography (with frogs)
-   Documentation for the Workbook (with Supi)
-   funny cover images _[1](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/souptxt)_ _[2](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/pad-bis)_ _[3](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/kiwiboat)_
-   writing docs together (with Chae) _[4](https://git.xpub.nl/manetta/flask-example/src/branch/documentation)_
-   now i get triggered whenever doc is mentioned
-   realized that writing doc is HARD
-   and a couple of other things

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-   _contradiction_
-   frustration while dealing with undocumented software
-   and at the same time never documenting anything
-   [xquisite branch on git](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/exquisite-branch)

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-   _participation_
-   lack of documentation
-   is a barrier
-   for the participation of diverse knowledges
-   in the the making of software
-   At the same time
-   this very lack
-   could be a starting point
-   A space to reclaim given margins and entry points
-   A chance to overwrite what is normalized
-   Let more voices participate
-   in the discourse that is software
-   _example_
-   [RTFM, Mara Karaya‌nni](https://psaroskalazines.gr/pdf/rtfm_zine_screen.pdf)

![chae api drawing](img/chae_api.jpg)

-   Chae drawings to explain API

![supi flask design](img/supi_flask.jpg)

-   Supi design to diygest Flask

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-   _worlding_
-   a way to produce narrations around software
-   create a world for the code to inhabit
-   to give affordances
-   stretch what is possible
-   to do or to think with it
-   [The Screenless Office, Brendan Howel](http://screenl.es/)

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-   **recap**
-   community tinkering with code
-   lot of experiments
-   scattered all around
-   not very public
-   a generous group
-   willing to share
-   knowledge & software
-   documentation seems an ideal surface
-   to host ideas in close contact with code
-   letting them entangle and shape each other

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-   elevator pitch starts after 12 min of intro
-   **what do you want to make?**
-   a small documentation framework
-   focused on the development of situated software
-   in the context of our group in XPUB

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-   situated software
-   requires
-   situated documentation

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-   So is this just a documentation of the Soupboat?
-   yes
-   no
-   it's two things
-   it starts as documentation around the Soupboat
-   to develop a documentation framework for situated software
-   chicken-egg meme

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-   _docs_
-   **a soft index of our software**
-   what do they do
-   where to find them
-   how to use them
-   from where they come from
-   and where are they going
-   how we are documenting them
-   how to contribute
-   why are they important for us

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-   this docs is for two kinds audience
-   _internal public_
-   that would be us
-   offer a way to keep track
-   and orientate knowledge
-   share a common interface
-   _external public_
-   a way to navigate the Soupboat
-   a rich ecosystem

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-   _framework_
-   **a system of software & practices**
-   shared surface or interface
-   one sentence games ritual
-   the breakfast club
-   flexible and expressive enough
-   to be useful for us
-   and accessible for others
-   a list of resources
-   tools
-   references
-   strategies
-   entry points
-   to articulate code as common
-   and documentation as a form of care

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-   and this is maybe the moment for a small demo???
-   flat markup bonfire
-   show don't tell

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-   **the plan**
-   **first 3 months** passed experimenting with documentation
-   the **next 3 months** are focused on the _internal public_
-   here i see myself as facilitator
-   introducing the framework
-   january is for prototyping small frameworks
-   february is for offering them to the group
-   march is for using the framework to index the Soupboat
-   the **last three months** are dedicated to the _external public_
-   here i see myself as curator and designer
-   our group will be busy with the projects
-   lot of the contents for the documentation produced here
-   how to make them accessible from the outside
-   which format?

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-   Software
-   comes from a really specific occidental cultural tradition
-   tends to priviledge
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-   technical obscurity
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-   Software models the world
-   in order to control it

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-   To make software means not only to write code
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-   Coding is not just production of software
-   but also production of knowledge
-   the choice of
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-   the development environment
-   the infrastructure that runs the code
-   and so on
-   are the result of specific contingencies

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-   These contingencies are situated in precise contexts
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-   Programming means to provide a point of view
-   a perspective to look at the world
-   before attempting to get some grip onto it with a script.

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-   source code speaks for itself
-   but cannot always cast light to its surroundings
-   to make place for code
-   a necessary act of care
-   in the process of sharing knowledge

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-   This does not mean to constrain the usage of some piece of software
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-   but rather letting others know where does this code come from
-   and where it would like to go

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-   resources of various nature
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-   prompts
-   strategies
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