A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Outliners, WTF?
Alert readers of my recent post on writing in wiki who followed the link to the old SDI Philosophy post may have noticed that I said : Outliners are surprisingly bad for managing todo-lists. So what’s with OWL? Well, er … yes … the truth is, I am now using OWL very heavily. Pretty much…
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Interview with Bill Seitz
BTW: I started an interview with Bill Seitz a couple of months ago, about the genesis and experience of writing his book. You can read it on his wikilog.
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Bill Seitz's Wiki E-Book Launches
Bill Seitz has launched his short e-book : Hack Your Life with a Private Wiki Notebook on the Amazon Kindle. There’s a fairly complimentary review by me on the Amazon site, which should be read in light of the fact that I’ve been watching this book grow over the last few months and sending comments…
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A Dataflow Web?
Facebook released a plugin for Quartz Composer which lets you design interactive mobile apps. That’s interesting. I don’t really know anything about Quartz. But I believe it’s like Max/MSP or PureData. A “dataflow” design system. Dataflow makes a lot of sense for plumbing together multiple services. And I’ve long believed it could / should be…
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Project ThoughtStorms Wikish Plugin Update
There’s a quick update to the wikish plugin for Project ThoughtStorms (that’s the plugin type that offers UseMode / SdiDesk style wiki markup for the Smallest Federated Wiki). I’ve now added the double-comma defined tables. So oranges,, apples,, pears 43,, 55,, 22 Now becomes oranges apples pears 43 55 22 Although not nearly as elegant.…
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OWL Bug Fixed
Hopefully that OWL bug I mentioned a few weeks ago is now fixed in the repository. It was really just a a bit of configuration that failed on new installs. But I wanted to test that my fix was really working. Hope it is now. Looks like it is for me.
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Innovation after Moore's Law
Fascinating video about the plausible next wave of computing, where increases in speed come from embedding specialized processing elements (Neural networks, FPGAs, DSPs, Dataflow elements) on silicon wafers, alongside general CPUs. And the challenges of inventing programming languages to exploit this. This looks good too : programming FPGAs with spreadsheets 🙂
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SFW is now node's Wiki
Ah, I see Ward Cunningham has spun off the node.js / express version of the Smallest Federated Wiki into a separate repository. It looks like it’s now part of the standard node repository and just called “wiki”. That’s a good thing in many ways, but I hope it doesn’t mean that they’ve given up on…
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Episode IV : A New Home
Welcome to the new Smart Disorganized Individuals. This blog is the same as it ever was … wiki, blogs, Smart Disorganized Philosophy, productivity software, programming languages, filoFax etc. … You’ll still find news and discussion of my projects like Mind Traffic Control, GeekWeaver, Project ThoughtStorms, OWL, (BTW: Some big changes / developments planned for some…
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How GitHub (no longer) Works
Very interesting talk from GitHub’s Zach Holman on how the company’s decentralized culture is evolving as it grows.
Got any book recommendations?