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Magic Ink by Bret Victor

Future of Coding

CHAPTER

Is There a Context Awareness?

The way in which you use each of these contexts isn't the thing to pay attention to in this paper instead it's the idea that there are contexts and that they should be made available. The iPhone has been adding more and more and more hooks across the OS so that you can customize its behavior and add your own widgets, shortcuts and that sort of thing. It is not predictably saying hey whenever you go to grocery stores I'm going to put a button for your grocery list app on the home screen but giving you a way to tap into location data or time data.

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