Building NoFlo browser applications with webpack

24 February 2017 in Berlin, Germany. 4 minute read.

I was looking at some of the Stack Overflow noflo questions yesterday, and there were a few related to building NoFlo for the browser. This made me realize we haven’t really talked about the major change we made to browser builds recently: webpack.

Redux-style middleware with NoFlo

17 February 2017 in Berlin, Germany. 5 minute read.

This post talks about some useful patterns for dataflow architecture in NoFlo web applications. We’re using these concepts to build Flowhub, the flow-based programming IDE.

Working on an Android tablet, 2017 edition

10 February 2017 in Berlin, Germany. 7 minute read.

Back in 2013 I was working exclusively on an Android tablet. Then with the NoFlo Kickstarter I needed a device with a desktop browser. What followed were brief periods working on a Chromebook, on a 12” MacBook, and even an iPad Pro.

Process API for NoFlo components

05 January 2017 in Berlin, Germany. 9 minute read.

It has been a while that I’ve written about flow-based programming — but now that I’m putting most of my time to Flowhub things are moving really quickly.

The Grid: Web Design by Artificial Intelligence

17 February 2016 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

As mentioned last year, I’m working on a Artificial Intelligence that can do web design. It is called The Grid. Last week I gave a talk at Lift Conference explaining how it all works.

Sailing across the Atlantic

22 November 2015 in Leeds, United Kingdom. 7 minute read.

Exactly a year ago today we flew from Berlin to Tenerife to depart on a sailing trip across the Atlantic on the Finnish sail training schooner T/S Helena. The Grid had just reached 10.000 founding members, and it was time to charge batteries before the next big push towards the beta.

Nemein has a new home

12 January 2015 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

When I flew to Tenerife to sail across the Atlantic in late November, there was excitement in the air. Nemein — the software company I started in 2001 with Henri Hovi and Johannes Hentunen, and left later to build an AI-driven web publishing tool — was about to be sold.

Flowhub Kickstarter delivery

16 September 2014 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

It is now a year since our NoFlo Development Environment Kickstarter got funded. Since then our team together with several open source contributors has been busy building the best possible user interface for Flow-Based Programming.

Flowhub public beta: a better interface for Flow-Based Programming

07 May 2014 in Berlin, Germany. 6 minute read.

Today I’m happy to announce the public beta of the Flowhub interface for Flow-Based Programming. This is the latest step in the adventure that started with some UI sketching early last year, went through our successful Kickstarter — and now — thanks to our 1 205 backers, it is available to the public.

Flowhub and the GNOME Developer Experience

02 May 2014 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

I’ve spent the last three days in the GNOME Developer Experience hackfest working on the NoFlo runtime for GNOME with Lionel Landwerlin.