Joe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in note-taking and personal wiki threads for its enthusiasm about granular, densely linked notes and TiddlyWiki.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Code Sync

Topic

hypertext and personal wikis

Format

talk

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• 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 [VIDEO]

• 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] [VIDEO]

• Things which are deeply intertwingled. Joe Armstrong (Erlang) gave at least one talk about it, available on YouTube: [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 …