Software As She’s Developed

TiddlyWiki Screencast: Multi-User Forum in 15 Minutes from Michael Mahemoff on Vimeo. This screencast is how I finished up the 12Days project, as it captures a lot about what I have come to appreciate in TiddlyWiki. It shows how you can do some simple hacking in the browser, in a single-page web app, reusing and configuring [...]

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I’m a redundancy fanboy. In visualisation, different formats suit different personalities and different tasks. With version control, the usual format is just a text log. This is good if you’re scanning for specific terms, but pretty ordinary for other activities – e.g. to get a feel for general trends that have arisen, the pace [...]

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I’m at a workshop on widgets. At a lot of workshops, people build some code, demo it, and then go away and no-one can see it running again. In an ideal world, we’d keep the apps running forever, but that relies on a complex tangle of internal and external services remaining online and staying in [...]

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