Making a REST API using Minecraft's metaphors
If Minecraft let you write RESTful pipelines, chests would be the database stores.
— Max Krieger (@maxkriegers) May 20, 2020
Also I like to imagine discord bots have their own private channel to funnel persistent data through; their own chest that's no different than the chests users have.
Update: Someone did this for k8s! https://eric-jadi.medium.com/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-cf16f890de42
Dark makes REST apis pretty easy. Sinatra did a fine job too.
Ok so why can't we do it using Minecraft's metaphors: paper notes as request file descriptors. Logs as books. Chests as databases. Hoppers as routes.
It’s gotta be multiplayer
Minsky’s afterword of True Names talks about how virtual worlds are symbolic metaphor environments. You can work in computational spaces by building up a language of symbols that map to other familiar symbols. His most striking claim: our conscious mind is already a symbolic virtual world. Our thoughts are all material/concrete/symbolic interfaces to the more abstract neural structures we have.
Minecraft as allegorical software
if only this stuff was in any way useful pic.twitter.com/xIr8sVofTO
— ollybot :busts_in_silhouette: (@ollybot_redux) February 4, 2021
Minecraft chests are a lot like a google sheet, they're hyper observable.
Discord bots too https://twitter.com/gordonbrander/status/1432761801972744197?s=21
https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1377328392295514115?s=19
https://twitter.com/GrantCuster/status/1561383978854240257?s=20&t=_-13GAcG-rO0_FwvyLs_vw