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

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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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “there's a video of the Tiddly Wiki creator and him enthusing about it here”

    Armstrong and Ruston enthuse about TiddlyWiki

    jodrellblank, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “Managing my personal knowledge base”

  2. “great talk by its creator Jeremy Ruston and the late creator of Erlang, Joe Armstrong”

    Great talk by TiddlyWiki's creator and Joe Armstrong

    vector_spaces, 2020-10 · Recommendation · in “This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine”

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Topics: tiddlywiki, erlang, xanadu, hypertext, note-taking, joe armstrong

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