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- Very cool! I launched something similar as well. My idea was to create a working document in which people could develop their own tools and agents. Conversations with coding agents are treated as editable, executable documents. Both the person and the agent can write on the same page. Rather than correcting a mistake in a follow-up, you can rewrite it, delete a detour, or edit and re-run an earlier prompt. The file is always readable Markdown. Check out: https://piary.dev/
Feel free to get in touch if you are open to an exchange, you can find my contact details in the write-up.
- As an Emacs user for over a decade I think this is brilliant, it solves my biggest gripes with org-babel which prevent me from using it in a team setting. Ledge is a lot like org-babel from Emacs, but for muggles: a familiar UI, and common format go a long way.by theCodeStig
- Really love the project, it reminds me of a now dead xiki[1]
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YufgfbUgEgI and xiki.org
by olexsmir - This is awesome I will definitely play around with it. Fits the niche gap as a standalone app vs something like [Observable Framework](https://observablehq.github.io/framework/) for data analytical type things.
I wish Notion could just integrate these things together and make it work, or someone build an Obsidian plugin. More often than not it would be so convenient to do something like this.
by TheGoodBarn - Nice, I'll have to give this a try.
I like the concept, I know there have been some other things in the general area but often tied a bit more to data analysis.
I am a big fan of documenting processes as "do nothing scripts" which just repeatedly prompt you to go and do something, and you then incrementally actually add automation. I think this is a nice side of something here as well, as well as things for observability (baked in queries)
I scanned about a bit, so may have missed this but not sure I saw how the code for sh things looked in the markdown. I thought it'd be cool if existing readmes and common ways people put the code in automatically meant opening a readme/quickstart authored by a random person meant I'd get a clicky auto-run set of things.
I don't know if it makes sense to add, so don't take it as a "I need X" however I think you will probably soon hit either for yourself or from requests how to chain things together in non-linear ways. Dependencies, X if Y, running things in parallel, etc. And also things like failures, continue vs rerun, things like that.
Not sure how to add those latter things neatly, or if you should, but I think those are the next features you'll probably see requested and you may need to decide your philosophy for the project and not only what it does but what it explicitly does not try and address.
Side thought, with lots of sandboxing and stuff these days I'm thinking about ledge and what could exist under it for like a "system ran and did things, changes are here and proposed to accept/deny/roll back".
by IanCal - I have created Brashtag language for this and other things [1].
Here I am using it as frontend to Jupyter and ollama [2].
- I went to look at Atuin Desktop to see what the crossover was with this product, and it's fascinating to see that the repo was archived the day this was posted here!by drayfield
- Great idea! During my time as a researcher, I heavily used org-babel. I used it to put code for data wrangling, plots, and notes into a single document. The notes would often contain formulas to describe what was done. I would regularly export that to PDF using pdflatex to send it to collaborators. Maybe this is an avenue worth considering for Ledge.by mfld