A few years ago, we hosted a Pi Day concert with MAP instructors. Programmer-teacher Walter Bender shared a way to calculate Pi using visual code.

Check out a snippet from the concert for Pi Day today: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfIWFNJ6xbsQyMmjZaZmJxgdT7nlCIMyP?si=DG1gwDBgQsdBXj8F

#PiDay #Piday2026 #Math #VisualProgramming

New article published! It's on alternative ways of making software more understandable to humans without LLMs, including literate, visual, and natural language programming.

"Programming sucks. Code sucks. It's hard to read, hard to test, and hard to maintain. Only a handful of people can understand any particular software project. These are major problems. I'm here to explain how we can fix them."

https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/towards-understandable-software/

"We should embrace visual, literate, and natural language programming in order to better communicate our intentions with machines and with each other. ... Every form of software at every level of the software stack should become accessible to programmers and non-programmers alike."

#programming #VisualProgramming #LiterateProgramming #NLP

On Saturday I will be publishing my article about making software development more accessible without LLMs!

Some snippets:

"Layers of abstraction are meant to be predictable and reliable. This is not the case with LLMs. Instead, LLMs stochastically interpret their prompts and predict intentions. If LLMs are a layer of abstraction, they're an incredibly lossy one at best."

"We should embrace visual, literate, and natural language programming in order to better communicate our intentions with machines and with each other. Every form of software at every level of the software stack should become accessible to programmers and non-programmers alike."

#programming #LiterateProgramming #LLM #VisualProgramming #NLP

A very happy birthday for Music Blocks creator Walter Bender. Uses Pitch Number, draws notes, and has balloons from another project merged into it.

Video: https://youtu.be/2ZJsXrUcshI

Project: https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org/index.html?id=1771791489349863&run=True

#HappyBirthday #VisualProgramming #WalterBender

A little January #vvvv review is up:

https://vvvv.org/blog/2026/vvvvhat-happened-in-january-2026/

#visualprogramming #creativecoding

This Thursday, 29 January 2026 19:00 - 22:00 CET, the global vvvv community (@madewithvvvv @vvvv) comes together once again for an evening of patching, sharing and connecting across borders.

Hosted by @thenodeinstitute and supported by @3e8 & @davidbruell
Moderated by @ravazquez

📍 IRL: The NODE Institute, Berlin (doors open 18:30)
💻 Online: Live via YouTube and Zoom

RSVP here: https://thenodeinstitute.org/event/32nd-vvvv-worldwide-meetup/

#vvvv #VL #creativecoding #visualprogramming #meetup