On Monday, December 8, 2014 1:10:00 AM UTC+1, Tobias Beer wrote: > > I have come to think of the mechanism that yields plugins as a more > general concept of bundling tiddlers to be reused and repurposed for > different usecases, like a bundle or a "swarm of tiddlers"... rushing from > one place to another. >
I think that when we eventually develop ways to measure *how* plugins and other mechanisms are used, then we will be able to identify clusters of commonly used tiddlers and functions. Then we could hopefully exctract the common denominators and package these as separate entities for effective reuse. The thought is very appealing, not to mention very, very tiddlish. BTW, I believe this "identification of clusters" will also be very valuable for us to build specialized application TWs, (which incidentally I think will show out to be a key factor for spreading TW). For example, there could be a "wikitext" swarm or a "widgets" swarm moving > about tiddlywiki.com which one could easily import into ones > tiddlywiki... if not only into some community documentation project... only > to ammend that bugger, yet still having the shadow displayed underneath. > > At some point it would be really neat if it was possible to send ones > swarm looking for updates at home, returning back with updates ...without > going to the remote site to manually fetch them with a brailer. > > Anyhow, here are instructions on having tiddlers form swarms... > http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#How%20to%20create%20plugins%20in%20the%20browser > The mention of swarms and clusters awoke a memory of the past, when TW 10.0 was introduced <https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/tiddlywiki/TW$2010.0/tiddlywiki/C-A9Cj4X1Dg/7bG0fc0gNE4J>. Pretty amusing to read even if I must say that dude is some rambler and I don't even understand half of his babble. Interesting to note that we've so far come half the way (TW5 instead of 10) but according to the plan described there it is obvious there will be a twexplosion happening in 2015! While on the borderlands; Another concept I've been thinking about, inspired by Danielos TiddlyDrive project, is that maybe it would be possible to have the core at some place (tw.com) and in your own computer you really only have your content and style tiddlers. You open the remote core (in your local browser) and it pulls your locally stored tiddlers. For one thing, users wouldn't have to bother with updates. In a way I'm wondering if this shouldn't be possible almost now? To load a tw node.js version on tw.com (which is thus temporarily stored on my local computer)... and then visit a local tiddler folder via this. Hm, I'll ask @Jeremy. Unless anyone here knows? Such a setup would be particularly usable for the aforementioned "application TWs". It could be a bit like tiddlyspace; There is the core. Application developer A, with a special interest in, say, math remote-includes the core into this "math application TW" which resides on any accessible place, be it tw.com or google drive. End user B 'remote-includes' this math appliction and locally fills it with his own content. Or end user B locally 'remote-includes' both core and the application. End user B doesn't have a to be a specialist at setting up the "math TW" but can again focus on content. (I didn't just describe tiddlyweb, did I?) And, kind of reversed, there could be "application community sites"; Take e.g a "blog application TW": Another person D sets up a, um, "pointer" to application developer A's "blog application" and adds his (i.e D's) own cutsey decoration and additions, turning it into a "music community blog application". Really just a niched display window dressing. Then individuals E who want to be part of that community, shares public tiddler folders with D that D provides a pretty and public window for. E can focus on content, while D has added not only the presentation of that content but also functions at a hub of many music enthusiasts potentially reaching out to more people than individuals E could alone. Tiddlers on the loose, swarming around everywhere. So, Tobias, we rely firmly on you ;-) <:-) -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
