The TOPLAP 'show us your screens' principle requires every livecoding change to land as a legible diff in the visible file

The TOPLAP manifesto’s core instruction is to project code so the audience can read it. In this rig, the operational constraint is that every change must be a legible diff in the visible file — the audience can read what changed. This forbids obfuscated one-liners emitted for their own sake and any pipeline that generates code offscreen and pastes a black box. The preferred move is the smallest legible edit (one concept-id per save) so the diff is meaningful on screen.

Examples

Adding .degradeBy(.3) to one voice is a legible one-concept diff. Pasting a 50-line replacement block with no visible derivation violates the visible-code constraint.

Assessment

Explain why the TOPLAP ‘show us your screens’ principle is an operating constraint rather than an aspiration, and state two actions it forbids.