Joe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended in note-taking and personal wiki threads for its enthusiasm about granular, densely linked notes and TiddlyWiki.
What it is
Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, and Jeremy Ruston, creator of TiddlyWiki, discuss hypertext, Ted Nelson's idea of intertwingled knowledge, and a way to combine TiddlyWiki with Erlang. It is a Code Mesh LDN 2018 talk.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends jodrellblank · 2020-01 · on “Managing my personal knowledge base”
Joe Armstrong of Erlang fame was a fan of Tiddly Wiki, and there's a video of the Tiddly Wiki creator and him enthusing about it here [this video]
Recommends vector_spaces · 2020-10 · on “This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine”
If you're interested in quines, see also TiddlyWiki[0] (and specifically this[1] great talk by its creator Jeremy Ruston and the late creator of Erlang, Joe Armstrong) [0] [LINK] [1] [this video]
Recommends jodrellblank · 2021-11 · on “Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams”
Things which are deeply intertwingled. Joe Armstrong (Erlang) gave at least one talk about it, available on YouTube: [this video] The key points were that Wikipedia style wikis force you into a page-at-a-time model. And TiddlyWiki uses more like a post-it-note sized amount of information. Wikipedia has a few links, TiddlyWiki items would have dense links to other notes. Then the experience of reading something would be like a 'choose your own adventure' book - click on a link and you don't get whisked away to a new page with all the context lost, you get the next note appearing below. It's building on the work of Ted Nelson and the early HyperText dreams from before the Web. As you click and expl
Cites a_c · 2020-11 · on “Show HN: A simple way to make HTML websites”
While not javascript free, suggest one to look at [LINK] for what a single html file can achieve. A talk given by joe armstrong (author of erlang) [this video] on it
Cites jodrellblank · 2024-06 · on “Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion”
Joe Armstrong of Erlang fame was a big fan of tiddlywiki, and he met up with the creator to give a talk together about tiddlywiki: [this video] “Joe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18”