Custom Markup for Working & Writing
summary
Two years of work produce a browser‑only, peer‑to‑peer wiki that merges pages from different hosts and runs computations locally, not on a central server. The demo ships a tiny plugin system (CoffeeScript → JS), a date scheduler (post.js) and a drawing toy, all driven by a terse markup where capitalized verbs dispatch to small interpreters. The concrete claim is that Federated Wiki can compose pages like Unix pipes; the prototype Mumble Fu compiles, runs and visibly draws, so it works.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Federated Wiki project intro
- 4:10Traditional Wikis limitations
- 9:31Ada Lovelace's notes inspiration
- 12:00Dispatching fundamental concept
- 14:29Markup in Federated Wiki
- 18:04Calculator plugin build
- 22:51Mumble Fu plugin steps
- 32:50Movement commands code
- 36:10Drawing tool testing
- 37:35Morris code spiral demo
- 39:02Q&A on Wiki & semantic web
