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Instead of blogging, I just take stuff down and put new stuff up.
The sparse content here is personal in nature.
It has only been tested (minimally) in the browser I use,
Firefox.
I was cleaning out an old sd card and found this note on the first
things to say about
Spaciousness. Nearly two
years later the vision is pretty much the same, and I know I had a
solid concept at least a year before this, and more vague concepts
in 2007. No wonder I'm so underwhelmed when one person finally gets
it... these ideas are so old to me. My brain wants to move on.
• If you want to be able to type 100 wpm with a single finger.
• If you want your grandma to get online, or stop calling you with computer support questions.
• If you want control your personal information rather than trust
disparate teams of venture funded engineers you haven't ever met and
never will, who prioritize monetization of releases over stability
and security, and probably will never securely wipe their
decomissioned hard drives.
• BaseParadigm supercedes Unicode. Where a personal email, or a glyph
you just drew in an svg editor can be the next datum in a stream,
you can write anything. Standards not necessary.
• Data stays the same. revisiting a document, you may see a new
version, but as a new document linked to the content you
remembered.
I added a little punctuation and html, but otherwise that's just a paste.
Now, the second to last point isn't entirely true. Unicode is still
a useful technology. But it is true that a network of self
describing nodes is far more capable in every way (except bandwidth)
than any character encoding could be.
And for the last point, most clients would probably hide the
original and show the update rather than showing a link from the
original to the update, but that's a technicality.
