Martin Fouilleul

@martinfouilleul
42 Followers
30 Following
37 Posts
Independent researcher and programmer currently working on Orca, a new platform for portable applications.
Previously at Ircam developing temporal interaction tools for performing arts.
Orcaorca-app.dev
Personalforkingpaths.dev
Martin FouilleulOct 3
Orca September Updates: Bare Apps and Misc. Work in Progress

https://orca-app.dev/devlog.html#2025-10-03
Orca

The Orca initiative aims to produce a unified platform and set of APIs to develop, distribute and run sandboxed graphical applications on a variety of operating systems.

Orca
Martin FouilleulJul 24, 2025
Devine Lu LinvegaJul 24, 2025

"These very typical words are in method and intent exactly like all those ads that tell us that if we don't buy this deodorant or detergent or gadget or whatever, everyone else, even our friends, will despise, mock, and shun us the advertising industry's attack on the fragile self-esteem of millions of people. This using of people's fear to sell them things is destructive and morally disgusting.

The fact that the computer industry and its salesmen and prophets have taken this approach is the best reason in the world for being very skeptical of anything they say. Clever they may be, but they are mostly not to be trusted. What they want above all is not to make a better world, but to join the big list of computer millionaires."

https://paste.sr.ht/~rabbits/1c22b0fa383438d404d3d99ad506c6c6d60c1fd2

On Computers
Growing Without Schooling #29
September 1982
by John Holt.

Martin FouilleulApr 3, 2025
I was invited on Zig Showtime to talk about Orca, you can watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/X1FeefJdrq4?si=93XkO4z7OnH3muIW
[#40] Orca - Martin Fouilleul

YouTube
Martin FouilleulNov 13, 2024
https://orca-app.dev/posts/241113/november_update.html
November Update

Hi! As always I’m long overdue for an Orca progress update, but don’t get fooled by the relative quietness of yours truly. There’s quite a lot of work in progress on Orca at the moment.

Martin FouilleulOct 2, 2024
I wrote a blog post about my recent Jam project inspired by @dynamicland Realtalk here: https://forkingpaths.dev/posts/24-10-02/wheel_reinvention_jam_writeup.html
It exposes the motivations, how it works and how it differs from Realtalk, what insights I got from it and the new questions it raised for me.
Babbler

Last week was the 2024 Wheel Reinvention Jam! My entry is a little toy computing system based on my (mis)understanding of Dynamicland’s Realtalk.

Show threadMartin FouilleulSep 30, 2024
More explanations/demo to come as I finish my end-of-Jam writeup
Show threadMartin FouilleulSep 30, 2024
Logic gates, a counter, and a "stopwatch" implemented in Babbler (yeah it's the name of the jam project btw)
Show threadMartin FouilleulSep 30, 2024
Here I added the ability to react to an object "pointing at" another object, which allows composing pieces of code by arranging them next to each other on the canvas
Martin FouilleulSep 30, 2024
This week I made a little toy computing system for the Wheel Reinvention Jam.
It is based on my (mis)understanding of @dynamicland Realtalk.
Here's a recreation of a small Realtalk tutorial showing how objects can interact by claiming, wishing, or reacting to "facts" about the environment.
Martin FouilleulJul 31, 2024
I published a new blog post on Orca, giving some updates about our latest progress and current work: https://orca-app.dev/posts/240731/july_update.html
July Update

Hey! Time flies and temperatures have risen to a mind-numbing 39°. Yes it’s Celsius, and I’m not prepared for it. But here I am, typing on a laptop that feels like a boiling kettle and sounds like a propeller plane. And I have some updates on what’s been going on for Orca this past couple of months. Grab some drink with ice cubes and have a nice read.