Exploring Federated Wiki

I'm writing these pages for two reasons.

I once set out to make a list of all the programs I had ever written. This was more fun than I would have initially thought. But, the text editor I chose forced me to cast my textured memories into a strictly linear form. It became a chore. I lost the list.

I was recently interviewed by the Computer History Museum with respect to how I became me and especially how I came to write wiki. They were interested in my list. Time to try again.

If I'm to have any insight into the behavior of this new wiki I must trust it to manage my own work.

The emergent nature of my own memory provides a sequence of discoveries to be documented and enlarged over time. This is close enough to real discovery to appropriately exercise wiki nature.

Additional realism comes from not wanting to mess this work up. Anyone writing in public wants to be seen in a good light.

I once authored these pages on a private instance of federated wiki running on my laptop. This has the environment always with me.

I occasionally published updates to the public version of this site. I mount the remote server as a file share then drag the local pages folder to the remote location. Done.

As this site got larger I've switched to rsync.

Note to self: when you upgrade, add flushing the stitemaps to your release procedure.

In a better world I would author in browser local storage or on the live site depending on what was conveniently available. Sync could be automatic or dependent on my approval for publication.

I abandoned this mode of authoring out of convenience when I relocated the site to another host.

You can see what I have written here recently. If you visit other sites of mine you will see here how this writing has been stimulated by my day to day work.

See Recent Changes.

Include Coding Portfolio Published.

I've written a program that reads these pages and draws a graph of the more heavily linked of them. svg

We might ask, over a lifetime, how often do I create a memorable program?

Thinking in both months and years.

From years and pages I can estimate months per program for those I remember.

How complete is this project? If I actually produced one program a month I'll compare that to my documented average to find the percent done, almost half.