Ideas for Better Programming Tools

Intro

If you are perfectly satisfied with today's programming tools and see nothing wrong with them apart from the occasional bug, this site probably won't be interesting to you.

Myself, I'm far from satisfied. I've programmed professionally since 2000, and it's also my greatest hobby and interest, but every day I'm forced to put up with suboptimal tools and paradigms because the better alternatives have either not been invented yet, or are super obscure and largely forgotten. Rather than becoming grumpy and negative, I'm here to try to help invent better tools, and maybe inspire others to do the same.

This site lists all my video talks, with transcripts, slides and sometimes clickable prototypes for each talk. Please leave your (constructive) feedback in the YouTube comments for now.

/ Emil, January 2021

Talks

Episode 1 - Design philosophy

• Video on YouTube | Local mirror (high quality, 1080p) | Local mirror (lower quality, 720p)
• Transcript & slides

Episode 2 - Stretchy code map

• Video on YouTube | Local mirror (high quality, 1080p) | Local mirror (lower quality, 720p)
• Transcript & slides
• Interactive prototypes: splitscreen.html | toggle.html

Episode 3 - Flowchart overlays

• Video on YouTube | Local mirror (high quality, 1080p) | Local mirror (lower quality, 720p)
• Transcript & slides

Episode 4 - Call graph navigator

• Video on YouTube | Local mirror (high quality, 1080p) | Local mirror (lower quality, 720p)
• Transcript & slides

Episode 5 - Collapse blocks, expand function calls

• Video on YouTube | Local mirror (high quality, 1080p) | Local mirror (lower quality, 720p)
• Transcript & slides
• Interactive prototype

Episode 6 - Speed & eye tracking

• Video on YouTube | Local mirror (high quality, 1080p) | Local mirror (lower quality, 720p)
• Interactive prototype

Episode 7 - Static vs dynamic errors - Best of both worlds

Coming winter 2025/2026!

Episode 8 - "Causal tree" data flow visualizer

Coming when it's done!