The master plan is to export the !worgle bits of !monolith to a !weewiki, then begin adding user-level documentation that is able to dynamically reference bits of source code as another wiki page.

while eventually I hope to get all of literate org parts of !monolith posted online as a self contained !weewiki, I’ve decided to post little pieces as self-contained documents. here is a copy of !trigvm, the toy VM used to power a rhythmic computer-sequencer controlled entirely from the !monome_grid

I really want !btprnt to be integrated into !weewiki somehow. Both can speak !janet, and I already figured how to embed PNG images inside of an HTML document. In small doses, it could be fun. #halfbakedideas

documenting my experiments with twtxt/weewiki integration at the !twtxt_playground

Thinking about getting a document camera: Any suggestions? ⌘

How do you do URLs or hyperlinks in a groff or troff document? ⌘

Don’t document software! (If you want to avoid pain!) ⌘

I finally made a script to add my twtxt messages in the 3 necessary documents. It isn’t pretty, but at least it gets the job done.

Cryptee | Private, Secure, Encrypted Photos and Encrypted Documents ⌘ https://crypt.ee/

I mean, ‘quietly’ is a bit misleading since this has been in the news every few years for more than a decade, but you all might need a reminder: https://qz.com/1002927/computer-printers-have-been-quietly-embedding-tracking-codes-in-documents-for-decades/

Poor documentation is overrated as an attribute of jokes. (Some of my favorite jokes are literally humorous attempts at explaining other jokes.) The difference between standup comedy & UI design is even bad comics know this.

I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they’re typically mostly a documentation of tech’s mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.

I documented what I’m trying to do with MfoM, so that I can write a proper postmortem later: https://medium.com/@/mfom-pre-postmortem-92683b15ff2c

Parallel documents! Interview, August 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPBeHDxcVSA

GXemul - Documentation (0.6.1) http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#sprite

Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies

Just created my first proper document in Scribus. It worked better than I expected.

Document Moved https://sway.com/b1pRwmzuGjqB30On

Xanadu Basics 1b– INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4

inferno@interstice.com and inferno@artnet.com.br list archives http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/historical_documents/mailing_lists/interstice/

Technical Documentation For The Canon Cat Editor : David Alzofon, Lori Chavez, Jim Winter, David Caulkins, Terry Holmes, Minoru Taoyama, Jonathan Sand, John Bumgarner, Scott Kim. : Free Download, Borro… https://archive.org/details/TechnicalDocumentationForTheCanonCatEditorSep88

Genode - Sculpt with Visual Composition (VC) https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-vc

Morphic documentation http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6514

Untitled Document: 1. “Introduction” http://www.unlambda.com/lmman/lmman_1.html

rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md at petnames · cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018 · GitHub https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md

In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

Hot take: any command that a user might want to use regularly should be short, memorable, and built-in; any command that a user might really NEED to use should be documented & included in the examples in built-in documentation.

Javascript is a just-OK language saddled with the world’s worst graphics toolkit: three distinct languages, each with specs so large that nobody has written a new implementation in 20 years, for live-editing a rich tech document to make it resemble a canvas, in ways that are not portable between the 3 implementations or minor revisions of the same implementation.

Have you tried documenting the problem so that future implementations need to reproduce it?

The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI | Document Journal http://www.documentjournal.com/2018/04/the-existential-paranoia-fueling-elon-musks-fear-of-ai/

Xanadu Basics 1b– INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4

If you want to snarf up the Project Stargate documents, now is the time: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive

Kind of a shame that when Prometheus broke the gods’ copy protection scheme for fire, he didn’t document how he did it, even by itself it was a major magitechnical achievement

Document Your Art: How to Archive – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the… http://ajroach42.com/document-your-art-how-to-archive/

Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down– and the Alternative - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs

Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER

Are there any design documents i can’t find or do i need to read the java code?

Some successes are documented, like one hive of eight humans and one octopus (needed for routing). But it was immobile and incomprehensible.

Posthuman hermeneutics analyses corpora whole, archives saved from bitrot by valiant scrapers document the then-nascent hiveminds’ origins

A virus had escaped a thousand years ago, since then using Atlantean skins as parchment for documents ranging from recipes to romances.

Only much later, they found out how the spy had smuggled the documents and ironically, the proverbial comb would’ve helped catch him.

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net I’m not sure if i’m ready to document the streaming interface, i’m still playing with different ideas.

A detailed document describing HTTP/2 ⌘ https://www.gitbook.com/book/bagder/http2-explained/details

Slow day for #txtnix. Just some documentation for plugins and fighting to get the test coverage back up to 85%.

Until there’s documentation: You need at least a empty section header like [LinkBack] to activate it. I’ll probaby require active = 1 later

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China’s two child policy
This one is worth documenting, as it doesn’t happen every day. As a matter of fact, it hasn’t happened for over three decades.

“It is the latest twist in the most ambitious and ruthless social-engineering program ever undertaken by a modern state: Beijing announced Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party will officially abandon it … ⌘ Read more

Sprint crookery
I am not happy with Sprint, I think it is a bad company. That, of course, is my opinion.

I left them and took the hit of the early termination fee (ETF) because their service in my area was, and is, not usable. Even though I had documented the many times I called for not having reception, not able to make calls, and their “unlimited” data plan been unusable, I paid the ETF and decided to move on.

What I wasn’t counting on was the taxes they, or my local government, charged me. They cha … ⌘ Read more

Bright House saga
In two occasions I have written about Bright House service, or the lack of. Ever since my last entry, many issues aroused, but I never came here to document them.

They vary, and cover a wide range. So many Bright House technicians has passed by my house, I lost count. The proverbial “how many technici … ⌘ Read more