Author: Neil Mather

A total galaxy brain for me just now with regards to progressive summarisation. I’ve realised that just by virtue of having ‘layer 0’, the source text, as part of the progressive summarisation process – I feel less bad about having hundreds of unread articles saved in Wallabag. I feel good about it in fact! It’s the first step of note-taking – I know I have source material on the topic to come back to, recommended by someone I trust, when this topic comes back into my focus. I can dig deeper into it then if I want.

This is very positive. I had started to think of the wealth of information out there on the web as information overload. But now I can go back to thinking about it as an amazing resource, to be tapped into when needed.  (AKA opportunistic compression).

Layer 0

Getting started with Ansible. Definitely enjoying it as a reproducible way of documenting all the steps involved in a server’s setup.

But… am I going to forget how to do all the actual underlying commands if everything is just an Ansible task in a yaml file? What if I need them in an emergency??

Watched Hyperland from invidio.us
Finally watched Hyperland, the documentary by Douglas Adams about hypermedia.

And… it’s every bit as fantastic as you would expect.

They interview Ted Nelson, discuss Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart, Xanadu, Kurt Vonnegut, Guernica + the Spanish Civil War, the shape of stories and non-linearity… and lots more. It feels a bit like it was directed by Terry Gilliam.

And oh yeah – Tom Baker plays Douglas Adams’ hypermedia software agent.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=1iAJPoc23-M

Hyperland

Replied to Indieweb musings by Graham (radium-basement.com)
Words first, I like the motto!  I’ve been doing my personal wiki as plain text only, pure brain dump, and really enjoying it that way.  I also like the idea of being able to wget a site.  The wiki I’ve got all the content in a git repo too – I like the idea of someone being able to clone it, or at least cherry pick bits they want.

Words first