Re: [tw5] Java in TiddliWiki

2021-11-04 Thread jwd
whatever kinds of backend code you would like. On Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 9:08:21 PM UTC-4 jwd wrote: > I think you will find that Java applets are no longer supported in any > modern browser. They've been deprecated since Java 9 and are slated for > complete removal from the

Re: [tw5] Java in TiddliWiki

2021-11-04 Thread jwd
I think you will find that Java applets are no longer supported in any modern browser. They've been deprecated since Java 9 and are slated for complete removal from the platform in a future release. This StackOverflow provides more detail. On

[tw5] Re: 10 Years of TiddlyWiki Development in 7 Minutes

2021-08-28 Thread jwd
instructive. On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 8:38:38 PM UTC-4 jwd wrote: > I've not (yet) watched the TEDx talk. I read the book years ago and it > continues to make an impression on me. > > I believe https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat is the corresponding > code repo. The READM

[tw5] Re: 10 Years of TiddlyWiki Development in 7 Minutes

2021-08-25 Thread jwd
AM UTC-4 PMario wrote: > On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 4:36:23 AM UTC+2 jwd wrote: > >> If you are interested in other visualizations like this and related >> software code analysis you might find the book Your Code as a Crime Scene >> <https://pragprog.com/titles/a

[tw5] Re: 10 Years of TiddlyWiki Development in 7 Minutes

2021-08-24 Thread jwd
If you are interested in other visualizations like this and related software code analysis you might find the book Your Code as a Crime Scene - available from various book sellers - usefully thought provoking. If books aren't

Re: [tw5] "I moved to Discourse" - add your name too?

2021-08-24 Thread jwd
If you've not used discourse-based forums I could understand how "summaries if one stays away" could seem backwards. I actually find it useful in other forums I follow. If you are busy doing other things you'll get a summary of popular topics you've missed that can remind you to re-engage. If

[tw5] Re: Tiddlywiki Can Create Native Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and other applications

2021-06-15 Thread jwd
Instead of depending on a JS library one might do better to see if pandoc https://pandoc.org/ can take tiddlywiki formats as input and use those to convert to *anything* pandoc supports. The "do one thing well" philosophy as contrasted with zawinski's law. A web search suggests combining

[tw5] Re: How to launch batch scripts from TiddlyDesktop in linux?

2021-01-23 Thread jwd
What you may be looking for is the correct "Shebang " line at the top of the script that determines the interpreter to use (assuming the executable bit has been set.) Typically I would use something like #!/usr/bin/env bash or, if you want to be

Re: [tw5] Personal News

2020-05-27 Thread jwd
Hoping you are well on the way to being mended. Rest easy in the knowledge that you have helped a vast number of heads to be big enough to hold everything we need to remember. Be well Jonathan On Friday, May 22, 2020 at 4:05:49 AM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Thank you again for all the

Re: [tw5] Re: TiddlyServer upgraded to TiddlyWiki 5.1.21

2019-10-11 Thread jwd
So maybe I am missing something obvious but when I visit the above link or its home page https://arlen22.github.io/tiddlyserver/ I see no link to the actual current download location. You might want to include a Download section or a prominent link to

[tw5] Re: bash script fails after git update (node.js on linux)

2019-01-31 Thread jwd
It is bash and so $ generally introduces a variable substitution. You might have some luck with making sure that the --server parameter is not being interpreted in some odd way by quoting it: tiddlywiki /home/rich/Dropbox/FiddlyWiki --server '$:/core/save/lazy-all' Your shebang line does not

[tw5] Re: How to use TW for college math notes? (beginner)

2019-01-05 Thread jwd
A couple suggestions from someone who has used TW for class and project note taking: 1. Keep it simple - don't spend so much time tweaking TW with plugins and making your note taking tool super powerful that you lose sight of the primary goal of taking class notes. I have found

[tw5] Re: TW5 and Html Entity

2019-01-05 Thread jwd
FWIW, the fonts settings TW uses match those recommended in Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com , an article that I vaguely recall learning about here on the TW Google Group though can't find that now (May 2018 maybe?) The article goes into

[tw5] Re: OT: Just wanted to let you know: The Web Design Museum

2018-09-08 Thread jwd
For the historians the Internet Archive (aka the Wayback Machine) has 2300+ captures of the state of http://tiddlywiki.com between Sep 2004 and Sep 2018 that you can re-visit: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tiddlywiki.com/ The first public appearance of TW5 (beta) seems to have been

[tw5] Re: Linking multiple TWs together

2018-08-17 Thread jwd
I'm not sure if what I do will work for your 'linking' use case but 1. I use Arlen's TiddlyServer implementation 2. I created separate tiddlyiki's whose tiddlers I want to share or have in common in companion directories to where I keep my

[tw5] Re: Announcing File Uploads - TiddlyServer 2.0.12

2018-04-07 Thread jwd
Arlen, I suggest you look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/8579946/1124740 - the second comment: "This will not work if you are crossing partitions or using a virtual filesystem not supporting moving files. You better use this solution with a copy

[tw] Re: Please send me links to your themes, adaptations, plugins, macros, etc

2018-01-21 Thread jwd
Thanks Dave, I found some useful tidbits among these. This has the flavor of the many other, curated 'awesome-lists '. If your toolmap were to become an awesome-tiddlywiki github page it might be easier for those learning about TiddlyWiki to find and

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki and Git

2017-10-18 Thread jwd
It was the issues with git merge conflicts between single TiddlyWiki HTML files that pushed me over the edge to adopting the node.js / single file per tiddler approach and subsequently the TiddlyServer wrapper around that. If your goal is sharing and synchronizing TW contents made on different,

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyServer 2.0 - Announcement!!!

2017-06-26 Thread jwd
Yup; looking good! I haven't given it more than a very brief trial but multiple datafolders as well as a complete, single TiddlyWiki are all accessible now. I'll follow up if I run into anything unexpected. Thanks! Another nice option for serving TWs. -- You received this message because

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyServer 2.0 - Announcement!!!

2017-06-23 Thread jwd
Slightly different results after updating to the current master but still no joy. I now get $ node server.js Settings file: /Volumes/CM/TiddlyServer/settings.json Open you browswer and type in one of the following: 192.168.1.14:8080 complete twboot: 502.720ms [2017-06-23T22:48:56.184-0400] GET

[tw] Re: TiddlyServer 2.0 - Announcement!!!

2017-06-18 Thread jwd
And I guess I should point out that I get the following in the shell when the settings.json file contains "daylog": "../TW/DayLog", > tiddlyserver@2.0.0 start /Volumes/CM/TiddlyServer > node server.js Settings file: /Volumes/CM/TiddlyServer/settings.json Open you browswer and type in one

[tw] Re: TiddlyServer 2.0 - Announcement!!!

2017-06-18 Thread jwd
Looks interesting! I am hopeful this works better than my current approach - which is to simply run different tiddlywiki --server's on different ports. Is there a way to point settings.json at existing tiddlywiki --server directory hierarchy? When I tried settings.json with: "tree": {

[tw] Customising Tiddler File Naming

2017-06-18 Thread jwd
'Customising Tiddler File Naming' shows us how we can modify the directory hierarchy used for tiddlers by creating a $:/config/FileSystemPaths tiddler containing filter expressions. *Is there way to also customize the actual

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki StackExchange

2017-06-07 Thread jwd
It appears to me as though the proposal has passed it's first milestone. I received an email from StackExchange: "A Q site proposal which you are following, TiddlyWiki, is now moving into the commitment phase. If you plan to participate in this site, please indicate your support by

[tw] Re: Node.js save mechanism (to interface with git)

2017-06-03 Thread jwd
Coming late to this but , you could also delegate the git interface to a separate nodejs process using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/watch-fs to watch for tiddler updates. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To

[tw] Re: Easy way to combine TW5 files?

2017-03-30 Thread jwd
I'm sure it is not the intended way to accomplish this but what I do is use the TiddlyWiki server / node.js version that maintains tiddlers as separate files. Then, I create a maOS/Unix symlink in one TiddlyWiki tiddler collection that points to the tiddler that I want to include from another

[tw] Re: T-blog project: Traditional blogs / Disqus integration / 5 themes.

2017-02-05 Thread jwd
After investigating a little further I am a bit confused Riz. Perhaps I am just not understanding your intention, or the limitations of static file creation, or I just have a fundamental misunderstanding of what you mean by a 'theme'. Can you help me understand? I cloned the git t-blog repo

[tw] Re: T-blog project: Traditional blogs / Disqus integration / 5 themes.

2017-02-04 Thread jwd
Very interesting once again - well done. Going to need to investigate this development more deeply. To me this seems like a lightweight WordPress. As someone struggling to wrap my head around how to do in WordPress what I can imagine relatively easily doing in TiddlyWiki this has promise.The

Re: [tw] Re: Calling all TiddlyWiki users

2017-01-14 Thread jwd
Thanks for the kind words. I see the proposed group has achieved its first goal of having 50 followers. Now it just needs 25 more questions that 10 or more followers think are great examples of the kinds of things Tiddliwikians want to know to move on to the next phase. -- You received this

Re: [tw] Re: Does anyone have a strategy for automatically reloading TW when the underlying file changes?

2017-01-14 Thread jwd
Close. This is how I transitioned from a single file version to the node.js version; assuming I had a single file version called SingleFile.html 1. mkdir SingleFile 2. tiddlywiki SingleFile --init server 3. tiddlywiki SingleFile --load SingleFile.html 4. tiddlywiki SingleFile

[tw] Re: Does anyone have a strategy for automatically reloading TW when the underlying file changes?

2017-01-11 Thread jwd
I switched to the node.js version for just this reason. My single, standalone HTML versions got too big and I began experiencing a lot of problems merging the changes I'd made in separate tiddlers that git's diff-ing did not readily identify. I began doing a lot of manual editing of what was

Re: [tw] Re: Calling all TiddlyWiki users

2017-01-11 Thread jwd
Mind if I chime in? I've had a StackOverflow account for five years. Finding answers to questions on StackExchange sites has become so second nature to me that I was surprised by Josiah's questions and comments and the little follow-on discussion this proposal has had. Maybe I've forgotten how

[tw] Re: Calling all TiddlyWiki users

2016-12-28 Thread jwd
Plus, by revisiting, commenting on, and editing content to improve it you earn 'badges' that contribute to your stackexchange community abilities. Those can, if you are motivated enough, lead to additional 'reputation' and responsibility. This is one of the aspects of StackExchange that makes

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki StackExchange

2016-12-24 Thread jwd
As one who finds lots of useful information daily on StackExchange sites I applaud this idea and added a few proposed questions. I can see tiddlywiki.stackexchange.com becoming a much more valuable way to find answers to questions involving, e.g., questions tagged [list] [tag] [sort]. Even if

[tw] Re: [TW5] Timestamp

2016-11-19 Thread jwd
Oh, very nice. Thanks @Bob for asking the question, @Riz for the solution, and @Mark for the suggestion to add a keyboard shortcut to that solution. That will save me some addition of date stamps that I've been using instead of full journal tiddlers; the repetitious entry of which has been

[tw] Re: [TW5] Prerelease of v5.1.14

2016-10-20 Thread jwd
Not to be a wet blanket but ... > Basically, QR codes can be used to transfer any block of text that isn’t too long/complicated to fit. And that, of course, leads to the downsides of QR codes, e.g., https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Qrljacking - the misuse of QR Codes to do not so nice things.

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] TiddlyWikiFolder segregation on Node.js

2016-10-10 Thread jwd
Thanks Tobias, Running multiple --server commands on different ports is what I've done to a lesser degree so far: one for my general purpose work daylog and another for my 'home' collection. I was hoping there was a way to use the TiddlyWikiFolder concept as a way to avoid that and provide a

[tw] Re: TW Node.js losing Tiddlers randomly - how to debug?

2016-10-10 Thread jwd
> In the last few days I'm finding that new Tiddlers get saved OK, then when > I reopen them to tweak, they're completely or partially lost. Usually the > title and tags are OK, but the text is always wiped out. > In the Node.js / tiddlywiki --server version individual tiddlers are simply

[tw] [TW5] TiddlyWikiFolder segregation on Node.js

2016-10-09 Thread jwd
Over the years of using TiddlyWiki I have used a single file TW for each of a number of work projects - they are my "engineering notebooks" for those efforts. Having used the Node.js TW5 server version for a couple of months for my general purpose daylog I would like to evolve my usage and have

[tw] Re: NoteStorm 2 for getting newbies hooked on TiddlyWiki

2016-07-30 Thread jwd
Very nice. It is a wee bit akin to a slide deck-like "TiddlyWiki in 10 Minutes" I put together to introduce co-workers to TW - but NoteStorm is much more polished than what I cobbled together. A few suggestions: - Not all the icons have hover text. Once I was in the example I got a

[tw] Re: Reduce size of the "recent" list

2016-07-30 Thread jwd
Like Daniel I got annoyed today by the scroll bar that the default Recent sidebar list causes. Maybe I am in the minority but Recent is my default Sidebar tab - I tend to create/update tiddlers for a few days and then move on. What put me over top was the double scroll bars I get when editing a

[tw] Glitch importing lists from Classic

2015-01-18 Thread jwd
I finally began to upgrade from TiddlyWiki Classic (2.8.1) to TiddlyWiki 5.1.7. I don't use many plugins and was mostly concerned with importing the contents of tiddlers - which has gone well so far. I have encountered a little glitch though: I use lists - a lot. In TiddlyWiki 5 it seems that

[tw] Re: What Am I Missng?

2013-12-29 Thread jwd
I've been lurking here occasionally and felt like something is missing too. Upgrading existing TiddlyWiki Classic documents to the new version isn't recommended yet. Ah! I suggest making this more explicit. Since TW5 is now what one sees on tiddlywiki.com users of Classic will likely jump