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The Malleable Systems Collective catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power in computing

Since @natecull is looking into brutally small targets for compilation, I thought it might be fun to have a dedicated topic. I think this is relevant to Malleable Systems because understanding the reduction of a complex program to a set of small primitives is part of understanding the foundation of the computation necessary. This is something that I’ve spent quite some time into last year, and I’ve found a couple of useful links: Philip J. Koopman’s Stack Computers: the new wave goes over the ...

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 playground that lets me play with some of these ideas. I think it’s relevant to malleable systems because it presents programming in its most elementary form (a single while loop), and can be implemented easily on near anything at all, in fact, all you need for this is a bag with marb...

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