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

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?

@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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