Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
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Re: Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
#2Unrelated, but does anyone else feel that there are way too many non-descriptive proper nouns in tech? I had no clue what to expect from the title, or any idea of why I should be interested in it.
Re: Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
#3Wow, that is just 357 lines of Go code. So much of my work life is using complex systems in AWS and GCP that are beyond my ability to understand “turtles all the way down.” It is refreshing to see something so simple and focused on one thing. In the early days of Ruby on Rails, I had the source code to Ruby and for Ruby on Rails on my laptop and it was all fairly readable. Those days are long gone.
Re: Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
#4Do people not look up the names they plan to use for their products?
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#5This is AWESOME! My biggest annoyance with TiddlyWiki has been the ergonomics of saving.
I've been using TiddlyDesktop, but that thing has some questionable privacy because it's based on Chromium. One time, I had it running in the background while working on something completely unrelated, and I got a Chrome-style popup/alert warning me about a network printer being disconnected. I didn't even have Chrome installed on my machine at the time and it took me a while to realize that it came from TiddlyDesktop.
But besides the privacy issues, TiddlyDesktop only serves local wikis. That's annoying when you have multiple devices.
Also, pro-tip if you're on Ubuntu: the latest golang version in the default repos isn't compatible with this. You'll need to use golang 1.16 or later, which can be installed manually from the website, or installed via apt with a custom PPA (https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu)
Re: Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
#6Unrelated, but does anyone else feel that there are way too many non-descriptive proper nouns in tech? I had no clue what to expect from the title, or any idea of why I should be interested in it.
Most of them, at least, aren't childish euphemisms for "pisser" or "pisspants".
Re: Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
#7I had no idea there was this much community effort around TiddlyWiki, but looking around, there are several companion tools for it. I've always thought it was a great piece of software, and obviously others agree.
Re: Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
#8Unrelated, but does anyone else feel that there are way too many non-descriptive proper nouns in tech? I had no clue what to expect from the title, or any idea of why I should be interested in it.
That it's a server for some kind of wiki seems fairly clear from the title, and I'm not sure what much more relevant context you could fit in a title - i.e. it can't really explain much more about TiddlyWiki with just a few words?
There's two of the words you complain about in it: the name of the project itself, and TiddlyWiki - which is clear that it's a wiki, and naming it explicitly instead of just referencing a generic wiki is useful for everyone who is aware of it.
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#9Can I access that on iPad? Is there WebDAV integration in iOS/iPadOS?
Re: Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
#10Wow, that is just 357 lines of Go code. So much of my work life is using complex systems in AWS and GCP that are beyond my ability to understand “turtles all the way down.” It is refreshing to see something so simple and focused on one thing. In the early days of Ruby on Rails, I had the source code to Ruby and for Ruby on Rails on my laptop and it was all fairly readable. Those days are long gone.
Like using the command line, its all so flexible, dynamic and powerful while being small and understandable. It was possibly my favourite part of learning to use Linux 20 years ago.