If you’re wondering why my Quora account seems to have been “deactivated”, that’s because it has. I’ve left. To do something more useful with my life. Full story here : http://exquora.thoughtstorms.info/
Author Archives: synaesmedia
The Free Software Foundation #1
I’ve been answering a couple of questions about the Free Software Foundation on Quora, recently. Here’s the latest. Should social (software) freedoms as espoused by the Free software Foundation trump technical superiority as implied by the Open Source development paradigm? Yes.The political message of the Free Software Movement is much bigger and more important than …
The Great Software Stagnation
Jonathan Edwards is one of those people I both profoundly agree with and profoundly disagree with. In his new year essay The Great Software Stagnation he again complains about the way the computer science field seems to be running out of new ideas. I agree wholeheartedly with his frustration. And, sure, with a few bright …
A Test of Mind Traffic Control
Today I managed to screw up my todo.txt file that I use with Mind Traffic Control. I had to recreate it from some backups that weren’t quite as up-to-date as I needed them to be. And I got a lot of duplication in the file. And obviously items that had been done are now back …
Cardigan Bay Screenshots
I’m going to do some video tutorials shortly. Just need to find a decent mic and a quiet space. In the meantime, some recent screenshots of Cardigan Bay
Cardigan-Bay 0.3.0
The release for the latest Cardigan Bay is out here : Release Cardigan-Bay 0.3.0 · interstar/cardigan-bay Now exports static sites based on the contents of your wiki. (See yesterday’s stories) Other goodies : move card from one page to another is working well cleaned up tables and CSS of embedded videos / bandcamp music etc. …
Fixing the Lower-Case Mistake
After writing The Lower-Case Mistake this morning, that basically convinced me that I had to move back to having CamelCase file-names for Cardigan Bay.So … a burst of activity this afternoon, and the automatic lower-casing of file-names is gone.If you create a page called HelloWorld, it will be in a file called HelloWorld.mdThe GitHub / …
The Lower-Case Mistake
I’m doing a lot of of work on Cardigan Bay at the moment. And it’s getting pretty good. I wish I’d done all this sooner. I spent years with wikis, not writing my own wiki-engine because I thought that would be pointless reinventing the wheel. Then when I did, I realized I could make wikis …
Command line HTTP apps.
I just rediscovered a question I wrote on Stack Exchange. I can’t remember much about the context, but the idea is to have an ordinary “web server” application accessed through http, but simply sending plain-text backwards and forwards to a command-line based client. command line – Is there a “terminal” style program that talks to …
Cardigan-Bay Early 0.0.3
Cardigan Bay development is slow, but continuing. It’s starting to look a bit more respectable (I’m so NOT a CSS programmer, but I have to do something) Get the latest : Release Cardigan-Bay Early 0.0.3 · interstar/cardigan-bay This release is largely just bug fixes and cleaning up the UI etc. But that makes a massive …