13 July '26

This session centered on a live demonstration of Origami Text, a peer-to-peer communication experiment in which each message is a self-describing, plain-text JSON file carrying Visual-Meta-style metadata, built almost through conversational "vibe coding" with Claude acting as a client inside Xcode. The host argued that the threshold for creating serious, robust applications has collapsed to a few hundred pounds of tokens, turning software itself into "wet clay" the community can reshape mid-conversation, and invited participants to propose views and interactions that were then built live during the call. Discussion ranged across what such a system offers beyond existing messaging tools, the history and pitfalls of link types and federated systems, local-first security realities, identity and metadata challenges, ZigZag and other hypertext lineages, and what all of this means for XR knowledge spaces. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/07/11/13-july/