I remember when you wrote an Ami Pro script that told you how much money you’d earned so far from the work in progress and then played a fanfair when you hit the word count.
Came here to say that I have iterated through to a similar endpoint - everything stored in folders and .txt files, which I access though Zim wiki (which I recommend, although I'm hardly a power user)
ECCO, Evernote, del.icio.us in my past, Pinboard since delicious died.
Since 2021 I've been using Tiddlywiki. glitch.com made it easy to setup my own private copy. It has both tags and symetric links and saves everything in a single html/javascript file. It is, I'm told, a quine.
I once was a programmer. Now I copy and paste or git clone and fiddle until I get it working or encounter insurmountable barriers.
glitch.com is shutting down in a month so I'm scrambling to find new hosting.
General understanding and working code is my motto.
It is strange how particular programs attract certain temperaments. I never really got on with wikis, though the idea of software as a quine is amusing, to the extent that I understand it. I like pinboard, but it is less fun than the thoughts of the guy who made it.
Highly recommend the software Trilium - it’s like obsidian, but open source and self-hosted. You can access it on an app or in a browser. I’ve been using it for two years and loving it
I'm biased against open source — as opposed to open standards — when the users are not technologically sophisticated. When programmers are writing stuff that other programmers will use, it works wonderfully well but when they are writing for unsophisticated users, they have insufficient incentives to make life easy for us. The technologically sophisticated, who contribute to the code, form a closed circle who do nothing they don't want to, and who care only for the opinion of their peers. Obsidian at least has a relatively simply API which has made it possible to extend it in genuinely useful ways, and I think that's only going to get easier for ignorant tinkerers like me with the rise of LLMs.
I remember when you wrote an Ami Pro script that told you how much money you’d earned so far from the work in progress and then played a fanfair when you hit the word count.
Came here to say that I have iterated through to a similar endpoint - everything stored in folders and .txt files, which I access though Zim wiki (which I recommend, although I'm hardly a power user)
ECCO, Evernote, del.icio.us in my past, Pinboard since delicious died.
Since 2021 I've been using Tiddlywiki. glitch.com made it easy to setup my own private copy. It has both tags and symetric links and saves everything in a single html/javascript file. It is, I'm told, a quine.
I once was a programmer. Now I copy and paste or git clone and fiddle until I get it working or encounter insurmountable barriers.
glitch.com is shutting down in a month so I'm scrambling to find new hosting.
General understanding and working code is my motto.
It is strange how particular programs attract certain temperaments. I never really got on with wikis, though the idea of software as a quine is amusing, to the extent that I understand it. I like pinboard, but it is less fun than the thoughts of the guy who made it.
Some real blasts from the past here - I used to love Ami Pro as a word processor though Lotus eventually ruined it before giving up all together!
Highly recommend the software Trilium - it’s like obsidian, but open source and self-hosted. You can access it on an app or in a browser. I’ve been using it for two years and loving it
I'm biased against open source — as opposed to open standards — when the users are not technologically sophisticated. When programmers are writing stuff that other programmers will use, it works wonderfully well but when they are writing for unsophisticated users, they have insufficient incentives to make life easy for us. The technologically sophisticated, who contribute to the code, form a closed circle who do nothing they don't want to, and who care only for the opinion of their peers. Obsidian at least has a relatively simply API which has made it possible to extend it in genuinely useful ways, and I think that's only going to get easier for ignorant tinkerers like me with the rise of LLMs.