October 1, 2024 — If you want to make web forms the retarded way, there are many other places to read how to do that.

If you want to learn how geniuses are doing web forms, read on.

September 2, 2024 — Today on HackerNews Kevin Damm had a great idea: put a <link> tag on blogs to point to the git Source Code Repository, much as blogs today have <link> tags pointing to their RSS feeds.

I've added this feature to Scroll and it's live now. If you View Source of this page, you'll see:

Client applications can start looking for and taking advantage of these tags.

I've recorded a short video (1 minute version; 10 minute version) about our recent work which has begun to eat the software world.

August 9, 2024 — Tables, aka spreadsheets, are arguably the most important visual thought tool.

But no one has designed the perfect textual language for manipulating them.

Until now.

August 2, 2024 — I like collections of interesting numbers, such as BioNumbers. Animated counters provide a useful perspective when pondering large numbers. I wanted to make it as easy as possible for anyone to create these counters.

So, today I added a new parser to Scroll: counter.

July 28, 2024 — Do you love those GitHub Activity Charts and want to make your own but don't know what they are called or what library to use and your work is busy and you have kids and sorry I'll call you back someone is crying?

Introducing Scroll's newest parser: heatrix!

heatrix let's you craft custom heatmap visualizations with the fewest keystrokes possible.

Heat Map + Matrix = Heatrix

July 16, 2024 — Imagine a single plain text file named contacts.scroll where you stored the contact info for your family, friends, and colleagues, and you could track changes with git, compile it to a beautiful PDF or HTML page with search and sort, and it would also compile to CSV and/or JSON for import into iPhone, Android, Gmail, Outlook, et cetera?

Also imagine that this tool is free, open source, and public domain.

July 12, 2024 — Woohoo!

Your blog is on top of Reddit!

OH NO.

There's a typo in your url. 🤦

What do you do?

July 9, 2024 — ScrollSets are very useful once you get going. But starting from scratch could be a bit tedious.

Not anymore!

Just drop your CSV or TSV into the textarea below to generate a ScrollSet.

(P.S. using LLMs with ScrollSets is another great way to get started)

July 1, 2024 — Regardless of what languages you write your programs in, you probably maintain files like changeLog.txt or releaseNotes.txt.

Change logs are very helpful for:

• informing your users of new features and bug fixes
• providing detailed technical information to your development team (and open source contributors)
• periodical data analysis for strategic project planning - how fast are we shipping new features? fixing bugs? breaking things?

What if there was 1 language that let you do all 3 things at once?

June 24, 2024 — I engineered on many innovative data science tools, including Grapher and Ohayo^[1].

So I was excited to see Observable launch something new: Plot.

June 23, 2024 — Regardless if you specialize in React, Rails, Django, Next, Java, C#, or ObjectiveC, you probably use templates to start new projects.

Templates generate a handful of files like readme.md, .gitignore, and main.

They also initialize a handful of directories like src/ and tests/.

What if it was even easier to make, edit and use these templates?

by Breck Yunits

HTML | TXT

April 29, 2024 — Scroll is a new language for building HTML and CSV files that powers blogs, websites and knowledge bases.

April 21, 2024 — The source code for this blog post contains a ScrollSet about the planets and generates this HTML file as well as a CSV, a TSV, and a JSON file. This page demonstrates ScrollSets.

ScrollSets are useful for small single day projects and large multi-year projects with thousands of concepts like PLDB (a Programming Language Database).

May 8, 2023 — Some web apps are designed to load entire programs from a link.

But if a program contain certain characters, such as newlines, those links won't work as-is.

To create working links you have to run them through encodeURIComponent.

April 13, 2023 — There's a tiny new symbol in Scroll today: !.

The exclamation mark stands for Counterpoint.

"Counters" aim to help writers strengthen their ideas by encouraging the integration of counterarguments throughout their essays.

You can write your own counters or invite counters from friends, LLMs or Internet commenters.

I am really happy with the current state of Scroll and so grateful for the many people who have helped us get it to this point. That being said, I had a feeling we were missing something important.

August 23, 2021 — Scroll is a new language and static site generator that is mostly written in Parsers which are both built on a new syntax called Particles.