News from TiddlyWiki, 6th November 2024

Happy 20th Birthday to TiddlyWiki

From the ICYMI department…

Did you know Jeremy Ruston and a joyous crowd of long-time TiddlyWiki fans celebrated TiddlyWiki’s 20th birthday, recently? If you missed it, you can catch up on any of the 3 long-running sessions right here.

It’s extraordinary to think that a primitave initial version of TiddlyWiki was first publicly released on September 20th 2004 to some acclaim. A community of fans rapidly formed around it. Over the years it has become much more ambitious and powerful but tries to remain true to the principles that set it apart in the beginning.

So, happy birthday, TiddlyWiki, and here’s to hoping there will be many more.

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Grok TiddlyWiki reaches 2.0!

Soren Bjornstad’s popular TiddlyWiki tutorials site has been updated to the latest version of TiddlyWiki 5.3.5.

Here is Jeremy Ruston’s initial response to the announcement:

Congratulations @sobjornstad. Grok TiddlyWiki was already an outstanding piece of work and these improvements and updates really consolidate its position. The writing is authoritative and friendly and I think very effective.

Website: https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/

Announcement: https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/grok-tiddlywiki-2-0-is-live/10965

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Streams Developments

From the You didn’t know it was a plugin department…

Many users have come to love and rely on Saq Imtiaz’s Streams plugin and cannot imagine using their TiddlyWiki without it. Even though it is many years on from its initial announcement, Streams is still in full sun — and, Saq implies, will be for many years to come…

Quoting from the Streams website:

Streams is a keyboard friendly way to write and easily divide your text into separate tiddlers while writing. Every time you want a new tiddler, just hit Enter. A new tiddler is created in the background and you can just continue writing.

Streams is, without doubt, creating its own ecosystem. Barely a week goes by before someone mentions it on talk.tiddlywiki. Recently, that someone was user lineonetwo. Taking Streams as a starting point, linonetwo created two new plugins using the Streams core code as a starting point:

First, linonetwo extracted “a Lightweight Outliner component” from the original Streams plugin.

Then, as though the Outliner wasn’t enough, linonetwo created the “Life Principles” plugin:

[It] allows you to record your life principles in the form of an outline, and engrave them in your brain like a mental steel stamp through spaced repetition technique, so that you can program yourself, learn from mistakes, and keep improving.

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HowTo: Install TiddlyPWA on Glitch

User telumire posted a pair of video tutorials to help users intall Val Packett’s TiddlyPWA on Glitch. Note that there is no audio track, just video.

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Musings & Insights

… a ticker-tape of utterances from the world of talk.tiddlywiki …

… User Mohammad offers a way to compose GMail from within your TiddlyWiki …

… Community members are discussing Robin Munn’s proposed new filter operator, braid — with quite some gusto …

… Elsewhere, user Dave Gifford asks, “What’s the oldest tiddler in my TiddlyWiki?” … we hope he will keep a note of the solution in his Daily BAD …

… Meanwhile, having emerged victorious from a battle with an image/svg+xml mime type, user Mohammad is now in search of a wikitext-only solution for link previews …

… And while user well-noted is offering up an Expanded ChatGPT Interface for TiddlyWiki, yours truly is insisting anything LLM-related is unwelcome inside his precious TW-space … yet, not to be dissuaded from his mission, well-noted wants to expand on it, asking for TiddlyWiki users to tender their own AI wishes …

… Back in the non-AI world, user XYZ wants his $:/TagManager to order tags by most/least-used — Eric Shulman provided a solution in short order …

… Sticking to the world of tags for a moment, user Vuk wants to “snatch tags” from arbitrary tiddlers, right at the point they’re being added to a target tiddler …

… User yedhukrishna fell foul of a CORS issue using tm-http-request but user buggyj managed to fix the problem …

… Founder Jeremy Ruston is working on a long-wished-for update to the colour macro and related palette management facilities. More details can be found over on GitHub …

… Lastly, over in server-land… Ever since its announcement, MultiWikiServer keeps / gaining / traction / …

… Wait! Just as we are preparing to publish this edition, The Banner Image Competion for TiddlyWiki v5.3.6 appears. As you would expect, we will feature the winning entry in a future edition, so pull out your digital pens, pencils and paintbrushes, and get cracking. You have until Sunday 10th November to rock the world with your artistic skills …

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Farewell and good luck to Paul…

We would like to extend a huge thanks to Paul who started this newsletter in January 2023 and edited every issue until August 2023. We all wish him well in his future endeavours.

..And welcome to the new team

We have settled on a small team of editors working together to bring the TiddlyWiki Newsletter back into the light of day.

In that vein, if you feel you could bring something to the team and help out, please get in touch by leaving us a message here.

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