Decker, Lil, and a good dose of HyperCard nostalgia
Kerri and Ash have spent some time with Decker—created by John Earnest—which bills itself as:
a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior.
It's a new take on HyperCard, a classic Mac app from the 80s and 90s that both of our hosts share their nostalgia for.
If you're getting started with Decker, here are the 3 key resources mentioned during the conversation:
Check out the interactive Decker decks that our hosts made and deployed:
- Podcast episode browser by Kerri
- Todo app by Ash
The Lil script that Ash describes for adding a row to a grid is:
on addItem do
todoList.value: insert
item:todoField.text
status:false
into todoList.value
todoList.format:"sB"
end
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Kerri mentions getting her Panic Playdate midway through. If you're wondering what that is, you can find out all about it on https://play.date/.
