167: Desktop User Interfaces
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Intro topic: Jogging Metrics

News/Links:

• Unholy LLM

• https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13B) 

• The reverse red herring  

• https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herring)

• The "ens–tification" of TikTok

• https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) 

• Response letter to Godot is not the new Unity

• https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/)

• https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21)

Book of the Show

• Patrick:

• Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin

• https://amzn.to/48qlg9A)

• Jason: 

• The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

• https://amzn.to/3LChBff)

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Tool of the Show

• Patrick: 

• Factorio (Desktop Game)

• Jason:

• AI Hero (iOS and Android)

Topic: Desktop user interfaces

• What is a user interface?

• Web and Mobile UI toolkits

• Desktop options

• Qt

• Cross platform, custom UI elements

• Qt creator, code generator

• WxWidgets

• Cross platform, uses native UI elements 

• WxFormDesigner, code generation

• Can look different on different operating systems

• Electron

• Local nodejs webserver

• Html/JavaScript technology

• Requires interprocess communication to use other languages  

• Jupyter notebooks

• Mathematica-like notebook 

• Not for distribution 

• Streamlit

• Python to web compiler

• Game Engines

• Unity, Godot, Unreal

• Tips for building desktop UI

• UI is slow (startup time, interaction time)

• Separate the UI from the engine & business logic

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