>éd Monday • 22:07 • April 17th, 2023 22:07 I wonder how close we (urbit writ large) are to being able to build urbit using urbit 22:08 like in a fully end to end manner, vcs in urbit, code editor in urbit, etc. 22:08 doesn't feel like it's too far off 22:09 imagining this through the construct of a Group, it's interesting to think of source code being accessed/browsed via a channel 22:10 or co-edited in a multi-user text editor channel, which could act as a lens (references/scrys?) into the source >galen Monday • 23:06 23:06 we thought about this a bunch in like 2017 23:07 urbithub instead of github
Federated Wiki is a language oriented programming model. Data, networking and identity happen on an axis with reading and writing in public as the motivating axis. We identify the values that Urbit and Federated Wiki share to model ubiquitous language.
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Ownership - information is different than stuff
Transparency might be second to literacy
Automation is not to be feared but interpreted
Federated Wiki makes use of various visual metaphors for sharing and editing. This might be of interest to those working on building document editors over an effective version control system.
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