Ed, Thanks for that, worth while article, it resonates well with my desire to democratise software, apps and the internet, through tiddlywiki especially.
I do try and stand between the user and hard code, having intentionally not moved into Javascript, although the day is coming as I can't always wrangle a tiddlywiki coder to write solutions to my perceived solutions to user confusions, without a coder oriented solution. Regards Tones On Saturday, 5 December 2020 at 09:48:50 UTC+11 Ed Heil wrote: > Lots of good stuff in this article, "'Real' Programming is an Elitist Myth" > > https://www.wired.com/story/databases-coding-real-programming-myth/ > > This is the part that made me think of Tiddlywiki: > > *Code culture can be solipsistic and exhausting. Programmers fight over > semicolon placement and the right way to be object-oriented or functional > or whatever else will let them feel in control and smarter and more > economically safe, and always I want to shout back: Code isn't enough on > its own. We throw code away when it runs out its clock; we migrate data to > new databases, so as not to lose one precious bit. Code is a story we tell > about data.* > > With Tiddlywiki, people who own the data also own the code and can do with > it what they want, like the non-programmer programmers mentioned in the > story. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0ff7473e-b9e9-4c98-b5af-d955df370d2dn%40googlegroups.com.
