Very much enjoyed (finally) reading this today (while procrastinating from other things I was supposed to be doing). The paper is in PDF form, here:

https://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf

Title is "Bicycles for the Mind Have to Be See-Through".

Anyone with a passing interest in #lisp, #forth, or #smalltalk has some very interesting material to chew on. And the @malleablesys people too, but I presume they've seen it over on the forum, where I first became aware of it myself.

The idea as I understood it is, to quote the paper, to "prioritize comprehension over ease of authorship". And bring that to the whole software stack, and see how far you can push it.

@akkartik where is the whole project at now, how is it all going? I only eyeballed the source code, but the rationale behind the whole thing was very interesting.

One more quote from the end:

"Creating an entire new stack may seem like tilting at windmills, but the mainstream Software-Industrial Complex suffers from obvious defects even in the eyes of those who don’t share our philosophy."