Toby Schachman: Cuttle, Apparatus, and Recursive Drawing

Future of Coding

In this episode, I'll be talking to Toby Schachman, who many of you are surely familiar with thanks to an incredible string of projects he's released over the past decade, including Recursive Drawing back in 2012, Apparatus in 2015, and most recently Cuttle which opened to the public this past week. All of these projects superficially appear to be graphics editors, but by interacting with them you actually create a program that generates graphics. Their interfaces are wildly different from both traditional programming tools and traditional graphics apps. If you are not familiar with these projects, I strongly recommend that you actually go and play them (they all run in the browser), or watch the Strange Loop talk where Toby demos Apparatus and explains the thinking behind it.

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Chapters

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. Part 1 (00:12:47)

3. Sponsor: Replit (00:40:07)

4. Part 2 (00:42:03)

5. Sponsor: Glide (01:13:17)

6. Part 3 (01:16:53)

7. Closing Remarks (01:51:36)

8. So Long (01:53:46)