{"id":1195,"date":"2017-03-23T23:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T23:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2017-03-23T23:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T23:45:32","slug":"project-thoughtstorms-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Project ThoughtStorms Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been working quite a lot on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/interstar\/ThoughtStorms\">Project ThoughtStorms<\/a>, the new Python \/ Bottle based wiki engine behind <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtstorms.info\/view\/HelloWorld\">ThoughtStorms<\/a> in the last few days.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;ve spent 15 years building a wiki <strong>without<\/strong> creating my own software.<br \/>\n<strong>That error is going to be rectified from now on.<\/strong><br \/>\nSure, most of what I&#8217;m doing is adding the kind of functionality that most wikis already have : RecentChanges, Search, Sister Sites etc. But it&#8217;s pretty quick to write. And as I bring these functions back, ThoughtStorms becomes more subtle and alive.<br \/>\nThe truth is that ThoughtStorms&#8217; content is woefully outdated. There are a tonne of broken links, and news stories that were current in 2005, but equivalent stories between about 2008 and 2016 are no-where.<br \/>\nIt needs a jolly good clean up \/ clean out \/ refactoring. But I&#8217;m starting to have some ideas about how to write some more innovative custom code to help with that.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s very much work in progress. And there&#8217;s still plenty that&#8217;s half-baked and <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtstorms.info\/view\/UnfinishedProjects\">unfinished<\/a>.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m starting to feel that ThoughtStorms is coming back to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been working quite a lot on Project ThoughtStorms, the new Python \/ Bottle based wiki engine behind ThoughtStorms in the last few days. I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;ve spent 15 years building a wiki without creating my own software. That error is going to be rectified from now on. Sure, most of what I&#8217;m doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[297,336,359,365,456,502],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","tag-my-stuff","tag-personal-wiki","tag-project-thoughtstorms","tag-python","tag-thoughtstorms","tag-wiki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}