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Maggie Appleton Profile picture
@Mappletons
Apr 15, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today.

We have an epic collection going, check these out...

1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
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@_jonesian @tomcritchlow 2. Buster Benson's "Piles" and "Codex" @buster Image
@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster 3. @nateliason 's Notes and Book Summaries Image
@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster @nateliason 4. @chrisbiscardi 's Digital Garden (rainbow style!) Image
@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster @nateliason @chrisbiscardi 5. @andy_matuschak 's layered, bi-directionally linked system of "Evergreen notes" Image
@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster @nateliason @chrisbiscardi @andy_matuschak 6. The Open Transclude UX pattern from @tobyshorin - subpixel.space/entries/open-t…
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7. @aengusmcmillin 's @RoamResearch -like experiment with bidirectional links implemented in @gatsbyjs

@aengusmcmillin @RoamResearch @gatsbyjs 8. @wynlim 's thoughts on Designing a Self-directed Learning Network: winnielim.org/experiments/le…
9. @jhooks manifesto on Digital gardens > blogs: joelhooks.com/digital-garden
@jhooks 10. @gwern's sprawling, info-packed wiki with hover previews, TOCs, and a public change log Image
@jhooks @gwern 11. Speaking of hover previews, @JoshWComeau's experiment with Tippy.js this week is a fanstastic example of adding contextual layers to links -
@jhooks @gwern @JoshWComeau 12. Also related, @swyx's writing on Webmentions and Twitter as a "meta-commentary layer to the internet" follows this same vibe of bi-directional densely-linked knowledge across platforms - swyx.io/writing/twitte…
13. To come back to @tomcritchlow for a moment, as far as I can tell from internet-history-digging they OG coined the term "digital garden" 🌱 and have a wonderful series of reflections on the concept here: tomcritchlow.com/blogchains/dig…
14. Update on the historical origin!
Thanks to @tomcritchlow and @BillSeitz for the backstory insights

The linkbacks flow through Mike Caufield's "The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral"


Which leads back to...hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the…
15. Mark Bernstein's 1998 essay / explorative experience "Hypertext Gardens" -

"Unplanned hypertext sprawl is wilderness: complex and interesting, but uninviting. Interesting things await us in the thickets."

❤️ This design aesthetic eastgate.com/garden/
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16. Overdue addition to the list, but @swyx has an entire 'Digital Garden Terms of Service' agreement!



A beautifully reflection on what we should expect as readers and gardeners - Epistemic disclosure, proper attribution, and the right to be wrongswyx.io/writing/digita…
@swyx 17. This collection has now matured into a full grown essay documenting the history of "digital gardening" as an ethos 🌲
maggieappleton.com/garden-history

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Apr 21
Okay, in the middle of a good mystery / concerning epistemological quandary.

Found an Etsy shop selling *beautiful* "William Morris" prints. Gorgeously illustrated nature scenes. Very Morris vibes. His name in giant letter at the bottom.

...but Morris never did illustration work, and certainly not to this level of detail and range of colours. The guy did textile prints in the mid-1800's!Image
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Actual Morris prints look like this.
Still great. But, uh, different.

Except there's *nothing* on this giant (700+ print) Etsy store suggesting their artwork isn't from Morris. No other artist name. No disclaimer this is "Morris-inspired" or anything like that.

Found multiple Etsy stores like this. Filled with beautiful illustration work, labelled as Morris work. But not at all by Morris.Image
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At this point I can't fully tell what's real Morris and what's Etsyfied-HighDef-4k-Morris, and the web isn't helping me figure it out.

Starting to suspect the fake HD Morris work is just a well-crafted Midjourney prompt.

But is this what happens? We all just run art history through enhanced AI filters to make it brighter, more colorful, more detailed, more aesthetic, and then fail to label it as such??
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Sep 30, 2023
Hosted the latest edition of Future of Code here in London on Thursday. So many bangers.

Delayed thread with snaps and demo videos!
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Oscar (@ocuatrecasas) from @fermat_app built a node and wire interface for chaining language model calls + image identification + multiplayer user inputs
Crowd favourite @MathigonOrg by @PhilippLegner

The shock and awe just kept building and building...
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Jun 12, 2023
I have a bunch of sketchy interface ideas for using language models as epistemic rubber ducks, aka. reflective thinking partners🐥

They've been sitting in Figma for 8 months gathering dust! They all felt too obvious to me to be worth sharing...

maggieappleton.com/lm-sketchbook
...but I showed some folks recently who disagreed. Maybe they'll spark some novel ideas for others.

First is called Daemons and has a cast of characters who sit in the background while you write and suggest edits or improvements.

Devil's advocate, cheerleader, synthesiser, etc.
Second is a lot simpler. Called Branches and just creates trees of causes and consequences for a given claim or statement.

Does one thing well, nothing else.
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Jun 10, 2023
Did yet another glorious, playful, irreverent edition of the London Future of Coding meeting last night.

We’re low key, impractical, and not trying to invent the future of anything. Confused? That sounds about right.

Featuring talks by @Paul_Rony @TodePond @genmon @JosefiinaIda… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImageImage
We also have excellent wallpaper desktop game
I've realised not everyone knows what the Future of Coding is all about.

Good news, there's a whole website! futureofcoding.org

And a whole podcast! futureofcoding.org/episodes/ (best education on the history of computing you'll find anywhere).

And it's not just in London –… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Feb 22, 2023
1/ You show up at a discussion group where you’ve all read an article.

Everyone has their own highlights and notes.

You all “dump” your notes from your phones into the centre of the table. Everyone is looking at the same pile of ideas.

They start to self-organise into groups…
2/ You can then point at them, move them, discard them.

Some people’s notes merge together - they’re almost the same.

With a gesture you can make the notes arrange themselves along various axes: radical/conservative, emotional/logical…
3/ This is wildly far off from what we have now.

We would need a way to create shared (interactive!) digital projections in impromptu spaces (pubs, cafes). And software to play nicely with it.

Fancy self-organising notes bit is easy with language models.

Hardware is hard, hey?
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Oct 21, 2022
New @tana_inc folks seem hungry for in-depth books on ontologies & schemas.
Initial reaction was... books are overkill? There's not much to know? Just google it? But then tried googling. And it is *noisy* and poorly curated out there.

A few recommendations:
Original semantic web/structured data content does a good job of explaining ontologies in an accessible way.

This paper "Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology" (2001) covers almost all the essentials in ~23 pages cs.upc.edu/~jvazquez/teac…
I inadvertently learned a lot about ontologies by practicing Object-oriented UX (OOUX), similar to the "Conceptual Models" design ethos developed at PARC and built off object-oriented programming

Simple, visual explanations

1. blog.prototypr.io/the-object-ori…

2. alistapart.com/article/ooux-a…
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