A Question for Dave Winer

So, Dave has a nice template for showing essay-length writing. And naturally, the way things are evolving in 2015, it’s a “single-page web-app” which can pull in the actual content from another URL. Of course, I’d like to write essays using an outliner. And I’m using OWL which is really just the Concord editor that …

Portland Pattern Repository goes SFW

Oh wow! This is MONUMENTAL! Ward Cunningham is migrating the original wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository, to the Smallest Federated Wiki. And it seems they’re doing it by making a front-end that queries the original wiki page database and shows it through the SFW. (That’s exactly what I did with ThoughtStorms before I actually migrated …

Welcome to 2015 (part 2)

Bloody hell! I just wrote a blog post and WordPress lost it. Grrrr … The short resume was : yes, I’m late (Feb) continuing my “Welcome to 2015” blog posts. last year I got the functional programming bug. Haskell is pretty damned good, but I’ve fallen for Clojure because a) dynamic types, b) Lisp syntax(lessness), …