Nimib Speaking Hours - Fri December 29th 10AM CET

[pietroppeter]

Organized last minute, tomorrow me and @HugoGranstrom will meet on jitsi to discuss recent and future nimib activities. Anyone is welcome to join and chat with us: https://calndr.link/event/pjXgpnkITQ

[pietroppeter]

meeting notes:

• move to nimib-land.org
  • problem: github pages is broken (e.g. for nblog)
  • solution: simple tool to add redirects
    • no need to add assets
    • use clipboard?
• refactoring of NbBlock
  • "object oriented": not for inheritance but only for having a mixed list of objects
  • let's retain a backend as a templating engine that has map between $type and a closure (no use of methods)
  • doc as a NbBlock (with head and body)
  • should check how jsony works with it (and keep in mind the SSG use case)
  • separate NbDoc (which is a NbBlock) from NbContext
• nimib.py
  • interesting to have another language, python works well
  • excited about pyscript
  • refactoring of NbBlock should work well with this
  • one should be able to create custom blocks also from python (nimib btw is not performant sensitive)
  • "there's no stopping it"
  • todo: publish to pip
• other langs
  • libnimib and beef
  • nimib.c? nimib.js?
• explorable explanations
  • fosdem talk: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/talk/review/EZGS3DYGMPNQUE7REBQJRUJSSUYWGJCM
  • idea is to go in explorable explanations, like here: Inspired by interactivity ✨ #145
• nimislides
  • auto animate: Auto-animation API HugoGranstrom/nimiSlides#40
  • indexes: https://github.com/pietroppeter/streamlit-example-driven/blob/ccb11cfb525734b61f8463bb7cca19e218c89190/slides/app.py#L412
  • ids: add support for links to the id of an element nested inside slide hakimel/reveal.js#3444
• future evolution:
  • streamlit like autoreload and discovery (with st.write) experience: https://www.youtube.com/live/YHmp9X5Klr8?si=njSvq_DB9ioM47Ot&t=495
  • it could take advantage of the refactored NbBlock and json serialization
• regular expressions rabbithole
  • https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
  • ...
• logo of nimib land
  • AI generated suggestion will arrive
  • tangent: https://twitter.com/tldraw/status/1724892287304646868
• nimibex?
  • will depend on refactoring of NbBlock
  • still have to understand repo structure
• decided on next nimib speaking hours

pyscript

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgC-v8l_Sk
• convert this or a similar one to nimib.py: https://pyscript.com/@ntoll/micropyrate/latest

refactoring of NbBlock

import json, tables
import jsony

type
  Placeholder = object
  NbBlock = ref object of RootObj
  NbDataBlock = object # using to serialize and deserialize
    name: string
    data: JsonNode
  NbCodeBlock = ref object of NbBlock
    lang, source, output: string
  NbTextBlock = ref object of NbBlock
    text: string
  NbContainerBlock = ref object of NbBlock
    blocks: seq[NbBlock]
    blk: NbBlock
  NbDoc = ref object of NbBlock
    head: NbContainerBlock
    body: NbContainerBlock
    data: JsonNode
  NbContext = object
    filename: string
    # ...
    doc: NbDoc
  NbRenderFunc = proc (blk: NbDataBlock): string
  NbBackend = ref object of RootObj
    renderTable: Table[string, NbRenderFunc]
  NbHtmlBackend = ref object of NbBackend
    partials: Placeholder
    # ...
  
echo $NbCodeBlock
let blk = NbCodeBlock()
echo blk.toJson
# {"lang":"","source":"","output":""}
# how to serialize it back to the correct block?
# do we need to?
let blocks = @[NbCodeBlock(), NbTextBlock(), NbContainerBlock()]
echo blocks.toJson
# [{},{},{}]