Decker, Lil, and a good dose of HyperCard nostalgia

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I'd Rather Be Scripting
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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:Decker user manualLil scripting language documentation5GUIs example deck <br/>Check out the interactive Decker decks that our hosts made and deployed:Podcast episode browser by KerriTodo app by Ash<br/>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===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/.

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