The release 1.3.0 of Platypush adds a visual editor for automation snippets that takes inspiration from Tasker and IFTTT.
I did some small jobs nearly two decades ago introducing school kids to programming through Scratch and the Lego Mindstorm IDE, and I've been toying since then with the idea of implementing a drag-and-drop, block-based and general-purpose UI to lower the barriers to coding. This has been a chance to finally follow-up on those intentions.
Platypush also still provides extensibility through Python scripts for more complex routines that can't be easily modelled through a block-based interface.
Keep in mind though that I'm no UX expert (I'm mostly a backend guy who can do some UI, not the other way around), and least of all I'm an expert of block-based interfaces and drag-and-drop, especially when it comes to a11y, so feel free to provide feedback.
Does anyone else think this title is super confusing for the linked content? Seems like it could be relevant for the related release of the software but this specific post doesn't mention WYSIWYG or how it ties into automation routines.
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Platypush is an open-source modular platform for automation aimed to ruin any device that can run a Python interpreter.
I did some small jobs nearly two decades ago introducing school kids to programming through Scratch and the Lego Mindstorm IDE, and I've been toying since then with the idea of implementing a drag-and-drop, block-based and general-purpose UI to lower the barriers to coding. This has been a chance to finally follow-up on those intentions.
Platypush also still provides extensibility through Python scripts for more complex routines that can't be easily modelled through a block-based interface.
Keep in mind though that I'm no UX expert (I'm mostly a backend guy who can do some UI, not the other way around), and least of all I'm an expert of block-based interfaces and drag-and-drop, especially when it comes to a11y, so feel free to provide feedback.