I've decided to return to
#buildinginpublic
and will be working on a new version of Codex.
It will be
> free
> open source
> local first
@electronjs
> graph-centric
@SurrealDB
> include my notes
And if all goes well 🤞
> 3D
@threejs
Building applications around databases (even graph databases) in the age of LLMs feels like we're computing with abacuses instead of integrated circuits.
Schemas, fields, data types, indexes, nodes, edges, etc., are already obsolete - we just don't accept it.
I have some exciting news on the future of Codex!
The incredibly talented
@adamthesherwood
will be coming on board as CTO of the CodexOS startup!
Adam has deep experience in the PKM space, having worked for
@RoamResearch
& on
@TiddlyWiki
.
I'm very excited to bring him onboard!
The world's first 60+ FPS e-ink display by
@daylightco
on Episode 45 of S³
See how it works, the 6-year development journey, and Daylight's vision for the future of personal computing.
The borrower's card wasn't just a bureaucratic record: it was a hyper-edge linking the reader, the book, and all the other people who had read it over the years.
It was a token of the community of the book: by borrowing you were carrying the flame.
You belonged.
@catalinmpit
@ashleydavis75
If your job spec looks like this:
* Painter
* Sculptor
* Architect
* Writer
* Civil engineer
* Inventor
* Anatomist
* Scientist
* Musician
You're looking for Leonardo da Vinci, not for an artist!
Time to build in public again.
I will be rebuilding the Codex standoff property text editor from scratch in TypeScript and open sourcing both the source code and data format.
Also, I will be sharing pictures of the project from my notebook.
Starting now.
If you would like to support my work on Codex you can now do so through Patreon!
Any amount you can spare will go toward helping me work on Codex fulltime and for covering cloud fees for the beta.
@NjbBari3
What is truly worrying is that all Western authorities, everywhere, seemed to go all in on mass infection and winding back public health policies mere weeks after Omicron emerged.
The staunchest holdouts for COVID zero or at least suppression gleefully caved.
I have a Codex announcement:
I'm looking for a technical co-founder to help accelerate development & to take Codex to the next level.
Familiarity with graphs, full stack, modern JS & UI/UX highly regarded. Experience raising funding, also.
Feel free to DM for more details.
At last!
In Codex you can now create entity relationships simply via autocomplete.
[[Person A]] is //related to// [[Person B]]
These are 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 relationships not attributes in a child block.
Build your graph in 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦!
@ZornGerhard
@alanlaidlaw
@RobertHaisfield
@Adrian_Cush
@YouAreLobbyLud
What an absolute disgrace.
Gambling our lives (and our children's) on a rabidly infectious variant that we have only 3 weeks of data on. It takes longer than that for many COVID cases to end in death, and we don't know the sequelae of this variant.
We won't forget.
I'll be launching Codex in 2020 and am looking for people to try it out and shape it to their needs and desires.
People who see the power in relation, and who want an atlas view of it.
Notes are part of that atlas, for sure, but it goes way beyond note taking.
What if a Tool for Thought could actually improve your thinking by:
- highlighting logical fallacies in your writing
- suggesting corrections to these fallacies
- recommending materials/arguments omitted from your text
@getupgetfree
@TySopko
Or imagine each day if a Boeing 747 crashed departing an airport killing 467 people and the airline just said, "Don't worry, the other 99 flights today landed safely".
I'm thinking about open sourcing Codex for personal and academic use, but requiring a license for commercial use.
With such a set up would you be interested in contributing to Codex?
Any thoughts on the best way to get about this?
@flancian
@bmann
@ZornGerhard
@chrismoye_esq
Taking some time on my birthday to read "Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies in Scholarly and Digital Editing" (2021) and was surprised to see a reference by Georg Vogeler to SPEEDy (the Codex editor)!
The key to a readable, useful graph view is that it can't just show what page links to what other page.
It needs to show how concepts *relate* to each other.
The graph on the right shows the concepts in the text on the left, built by just pointing & clicking.
No code required.
@JoannaInNY_MPH
@AbraarKaran
It's more than disappointing. They have had two years to read up on the literature. They are not doing the job they were trusted to do, and some of them are actively undermining the science for political reasons.
@AnnastaciaMP
@BigBadDenis
Does the QLD CHO still believe it is "inevitable" and "necessary" to get infected with COVID?
What precautions are you taking to protect our kids at school from COVID?
@YouAreLobbyLud
Fantasy kills indeed. Somehow the Let it Rip types convinced some portion of the public that eliminating the virus was to live in a fantasy world ... when they in fact are the ones who refuse to adapt to the reality of the virus, and chase a fatal dream.
@9NewsQueensland
@miaglover_9
So let's get this straight .... instead of controlling COVID transmission - which would help save lives, avoid Long COVID, save the healthcare system, etc. - they would rather send kids into the workforce.
Soon anyone will be able to drop a standalone text editor component into their website which:
- handles rich text styling
- semantic annotation
- nested lists
- marginalia
- overridable key bindings
- SVG effects synced to text
And is about 70 KB uncompressed.
Codex progress update:
- created an AbstractBlock and derived all concrete Blocks from it
- got the first pass at nested blocks working
- got margin list items working
@alanlaidlaw
#buildinpublic
@YouAreLobbyLud
Even if they ended up being right ... imagine taking a *50/50 bet* on death and Long COVID ... when they could have just followed the precautionary principle.
Who takes a 50/50 bet on life and death?
Not any body fit to govern.
Copy-paste exists in the liminal space between apps.
What other global functions exist in this space?
And what other functions in this liminal space would you like to see for doing knowledge work ... ?
Imagine if you could put digital post it notes on any app in your OS ...
And all notes were connected in the same graph ...
Add a note to a calendar entry, an email, a photo, a video, a folder ...
46 pages of notes on Codex in the past month, on topics like the multimedia graph, the desktop, and extending the core capabilities of the standoff text editor.
Getting closer to the beta ...
Effortless multilingual aliasing in Codex.
See how the English word "paper" is linked to the German word "Beitrag" & how the linked refs show all matches, in English or German.
Note also how hovering over "paper" on the right highlights all aliases in the main text.
The question is precisely the reverse.
If AI is capable of handling unstructured data - i.e., the messy complexity of the universe - then why are we contorting ourselves into rigid schemas?
Just published this…The power of AI is its ability to turn unstructured data into structured data — so why are we spending all our time generating unstructured data?
@TylerAlterman
I think Vernon Blake nailed it with the idea of "veritable abstractions" (1925).
The choice between "realism" and "abstraction" in the way we understand it (2022) is a false one.
The Old Masters didn't "just" represent things: they created veritable (true) abstractions.
Do you think OOP would be closer to Alan Kay's vision today if SmallTalk had adopted the language of biology instead of ontology?
E.g., genome instead of class, cell instead of object, etc.?
Codex OS and an early Codex notebook showing the standoff model ...
Also on screen:
- a text showing various annotation types, including rainbow underline🏳️🌈
- a YT video
- a Sketchfab window
- the graph explorer, modelled after a file manager
@autumnpard
@sgodofsk
Science fiction has a history of inspiring yet believable female protagonists:
- Princess Leia
- Ellen Ripley
- Sarah Connor
- Dr Ellie Arroway (Contact)
They are heroic but also flawed. Human.
Interesting how some assemblers back in the day (like the GEOS assembler) allowed you to paste images directly into the source code, and compiled them into bytes ...
@YouAreLobbyLud
Even if they ended up being right ... imagine taking a *50/50 bet* on death and Long COVID ... when they could have just followed the precautionary principle.
Who takes a 50/50 bet on life and death?
Not any body fit to govern.
@AnnastaciaMP
You know what would help keep our loved ones safe?
Closing the borders.
Lockdown to flush out the virus.
Installing of HEPA filters into all schools & government buildings.
Unless you prefer to continue mass infection of QLDers. History will not judge you kindly.
In Codex, your desktop background can be:
an image
a video
a webcam stream
and now a WebGL component
The next step may be an interactive JS environment ...
Crazy Codex Idea
#138
:
Knowledge graphs will become the connective tissue between apps, a commodity in which to build the knowledge worker's OS.
Outlining, annotation, topic mapping, will simply be operations performed on a knowledge graph substrate.
Graphs will become oxygen.
@xabitron1
Antivaxxer: nobody knows the long-term effects of a novel vaccine.
Also antivaxxer: I can't imagine any long-term effects from people getting infected with a novel coronavirus.
Compared to 2020-2022 it's eerily quiet on the PKM front.
Used to be at least a dozen people (users, coders) constantly thrashing out better ways of working in PKM ...
These days it kind of feels like I'm working in a vacuum ...
Still ... this will pass!
Effortless multilingual aliasing in Codex.
See how the English word "paper" is linked to the German word "Beitrag" & how the linked refs show all matches, in English or German.
Note also how hovering over "paper" on the right highlights all aliases in the main text.