Hugo’s a good un but you might personally like Hakyll… https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
One nice way to get comments on a static site is webmentions – https://indieweb.org/Webmention
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Both those effects, new things rising because of writing about existing ones, and spending time thinking to be able to create, are most welcome ones.
Great to hear! It’s nice to hear about your note notion-taking system leading to a long-form post. I haven’t written a very long post from my notes yet – I think I’ll have a reflect as to why that is.
Comrade I don’t generally post on Twitter but you can follow me elsewhere on the intertubes https://doubleloop.net/follow
Yes it’s interesting that they focus on privacy. I do agree with the main thrust of the article, that without diligence, and when just focusing on the tech, the decentralised can easily be centralised again. And in some cases the absence of privacy can be the attack vector. But I think I find things like the anti-disintermediation of blogging, email (gmail) and git (github) as more low-hanging examples of what we need to prevent against, where privacy had nothing to do with it.
It’s troubling too to think how this will encroach on more and more transactions, as so many things become are becoming so-called ‘smart’. As Paul says in his Info Civics article, “All authority is borrowed from the server, and so the users possess no authority of their own. As a result we must describe these services as authoritarian.” It’s provocative but I think the same could be applied here.
We have an interview with one of the authors, Aaron Perzanowski, here – https://therestartproject.org/podcast/crisis-copyright/.
That’s great. I hear lots of good things about Obsidian. How did the connection happen? (I’m very interested in constellation formation!)
Desmond Rivet (desmondrivet.com)Interesting. How do you think this would apply to something like a distributed game, where you want a certain kind of enforcement of the rules between players?
I think the argument would be that any enforceable rules would be built in to the protocol itself. Kind of like the idea of smart contracts I guess – certainly not without its own range possible pitfalls, but the idea being that it requires much more consensus to change a protocol.
Really great to read your thoughts on this, Ton! 15+ years is a lot of experience. I also came across a post from Lilia Efimova related to the wiki/blog combo from a BlogWalk salon from 2004(!) – My dream wiki/weblog tool.
I feel both hemmed in by how my blog in its setup puts flow above stock, and how a wiki assumes stock more than flow.
I think you are right and that perhaps we are restricted by thinking about this in terms of wikis and blogs, because there is a lot of preconceptions associated with each of those. Perhaps thinking at the level of values/requirements, about something which can help us produce both stock and flow, can help us think about the process first, and then later comes the thinking about what tool or combo of tools can support us with that.
I often struggle with the assumed path of small elements to slightly more reworked content to articles.
I really like the ideas of patterns, constellations, Gestalts. Constellations is naturally quite close to the idea of connecting the dots! For my wikiblog to help me learn and grow my ideas, it definitely needs to help me see these constellations. I do sometimes wonder about the merits of making every concept as small as possible. Perhaps in the right context, yes, but I don’t feel that doing it dogmatically will always be helpful.
visualisations may point to novel constellations for me, emerging from the collection and jumble of stuff in the wiki. That I think is powerful.
I am hoping to explore a bit more how some of the mapping and bi-directional links in org-roam might help me with this.
Perhaps the ultimate requirement is for something that helps us see the constellations of our thoughts? I think for me this will be part stream (for sharing/receiving ideas from others), part note-taking tool, part garden, part visualisation.
Plus plenty of staring out of the window, away from tools!
I’m glad something good came out of that industrial estate in Warrington.
This is a decent app for getting a bit of variety in to your 7 minutes: https://seven.downdogapp.com/