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Intro topic: Jogging Metrics News/Links: * Unholy LLM * https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13B ( https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13B ) * The reverse red herring * https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herring ( https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herring ) * The "ens–tification" of TikTok * https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ ( https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ ) * Response letter to Godot is not the new Unity * https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/ ( https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/ ) * https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 ( https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 ) Book of the Show * Patrick: * Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin * https://amzn.to/48qlg9A ( https://amzn.to/48qlg9A ) * Jason: * The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates * https://amzn.to/3LChBff ( https://amzn.to/3LChBff ) Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h ( https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h ) Tool of the Show * Patrick: * Factorio (Desktop Game) * Jason: * AI Hero (iOS and Android) Topic: Desktop user interfaces * What is a user interface? * Web and Mobile UI toolkits * Desktop options * Qt * Cross platform, custom UI elements * Qt creator, code generator * WxWidgets * Cross platform, uses native UI elements * WxFormDesigner, code generation * Can look different on different operating systems * Electron * Local nodejs webserver * Html/JavaScript technology * Requires interprocess communication to use other languages * Jupyter notebooks * Mathematica-like notebook * Not for distribution * Streamlit * Python to web compiler * Game Engines * Unity, Godot, Unreal * Tips for building desktop UI * UI is slow (startup time, interaction time) * Separate the UI from the engine & business logic Programming Throwdown Episode 167 October 23, 2023 ★ Episode details: https://share.transistor.fm/s/22770c51 ★ Additional episodes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/