Sample tiddler: tracking compatibility between BASIC Anywhere Machine and GW-BASIC

#1

https://basicanywheremachine.neocities.org/BAM_ProgReference.html#Compatibility%20with%20GW-BASIC

Just in case there’s any TiddlyWiki stuff in there of interest to anybody.

EDIT: Apologies for the lengthy link above. That’s a case in which I prefer provide a detailed link versus just a pretty link. For that TiddlyWiki, I tend to only provide a pretty link when going to the reader-mode interface, BASIC Anywhere Machine Programming Reference. That’s the “natural state” for that TiddlyWiki, so a long and ugly link is an indicator that we are not in Kansas anymore.

ASIDE:

I cognitively operate and communicate, seemingly, very differently than many folk.

I live and get caught up in details, and I usually can’t be neat and tidy because there are always “informative” (in my mind) bits that are part of the whole, and the “whole” is no longer there, it no longer makes sense, without those bits.

If the way I communicate, in my attempt to contribute, is a challenge for you, then please ignore my contributions. I don’t mean to make your life difficult, but mine is always difficult. I have a hard enough time expressing what is in my head; trying to express in a way that works for everybody else is a challenge I can’t overcome.

I am in a perpetual state of information, sensory, cognitive overload.

Yet usually calm in appearance. Hence: to look at me, one may think the hamster is dead, but the squeaky wheel is always spinning. Furiously.

#2

Charlie - interesting work your table, thanks for sharing.

Of note is the wiki could do with a splash screen, I almost abandoned it as a bad link. A splash screen would be reassuring :slight_smile:

#3

Hey, thanks.

A splash screen is something that is seen after clicking on something. After launching an application, after clicking on a link.

If a splash screen only starts after the action of clicking on a link, but you were hesitating to click on the link because you thought it was a bad link, how can a splash screen reassure you that it is okay to click on the link, when the splash screen only shows after you click on the link?

Yeah, I’ve got some paralysis by analysis going on because something about what you’re asking, to me, doesn’t seem quite right.

Doesn’t matter. I saw value in providing a detailed link instead of a short pretty link, and will do it again in a heart beat in certain circumstances.

Apologies to all who don’t like the detailed/technical links.

FYI, check out this article about the risks of pretty links.

#4

I think @TW_Tones is referencing the TW splash screen implementation to display content embedded in the HTML file before the TW process boots up. You embed tiddlers/content in the HTML by tagging a tiddler with various things, and then “resaving/reloading”.

https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#Creating%20a%20splash%20screen

#5

Yeah, I know how to setup a splash page for a TiddlyWiki.

I read Tone’s email, and I’ll I understood from it is the link looks like a bad link.

Thanks for clearing that up.

#6

@Charlie_Veniot as @joshuafontany said. I clicked on your link, yes I already trusted it/you. However I just sat starring at a blank tab.

Because I received no message and the load time was about to exceed my patience, I almost closed the tab, thinking perhaps Charlie broke it, but just in time the result appeared.

With a splash screen you just say “please wait loading” and thus I would be confident to wait.

Its an internet form of Broadcast radio’s fear of “Dead Air”, transferring a user to a page that seems empty/broken is very similar.

This reminds me that many of my personal wikis have grown and present blank screens for a while now, so I must make a splash screen package to simply drop on all relevant wikis myself. Although this is less important than on publicly shared wikis.

One blog post found on this

[edited] You can Just use the tiddler on tiddlywiki.com

SplashScreen.json (3.7 KB)

#7

The very first time, I would have gotten it and would have appreciated it if you would have said: "I have a slow connection, and it takes a while for your TiddlyWiki to load. Would you mind adding a splash page as per…

And that would have been clear to me, and I would have been happy to jump on it.

It obviously wasn’t clear to me where you were going, and I appreciated joshuafontany clearing things up for me.

I don’t know why you have to cap it off with telling me I use bad form, and how I should correct it.

I would have figured all of that out with a clear message right out of the gate.

Trying to somehow contribute to the community is way too hard for my abilities.

Too damned stubborn to give up is my biggest problem right now.

#8

@Charlie_Veniot I hope you appreciate it is not possibly for anyone to keep a running dossier on everyone that they may interact with, to ensure they comply with the needs of another.

Certainly, should someone not understand, they can just ask, as you have done.

I am, very happy to assist where possible, and adjust my own behaviour to suit our neuro-diverse community, however It is a little unfair that anyone expects people to “Always respond differently” to how they do to the other 99% of the community, just to account for their personal needs. Although I/we do try.

Remember all I was doing was trying to help, nothing less, nothing more. Sure you can ask for and suggest special consideration, but you have no right to expect it, always, every time and then “complain” not just “explain” when someone does not comply.

We love and appreciate your involvement in this community a lot, but please try and be a little less judgmental, otherwise you may encourage others to self censor and reply less often to you “lest they be scolded”.

Personally “I do not like being scolded!”

I did not do this!

Getting the message right is a challenge we all face, I think I did quite well, its OK if it did not work for you and you needed clarification but this should not cause criticism of me.

Actually I think you do fine with this on the whole although it may be hard for you, the result is great.

All I ask is a little more generosity towards others would help, as I think I have raised before. But if you can’t, well we do respect our communities diversity.

#9

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I originally misunderstood your first helpful post.

I thought you were suggesting improvements to the link itself. I made a point of adding an apology for the unpretty link, explained that I do have cognitive challenges that impact how I operate and think and organize.

I was obviously confused.

@joshuafontany totally cleared up my misunderstanding, and all was fine.

I said that I am perpetually dealing with cognitive/information/sensory overload, kind of hoping that maybe that could be an indication that I can only handle so much coming at me.

I should have completely ignored this thread of discussion right after my thanks to Joshua.

My fault. Everything after Joshua’s post was way too much for me, and I should have not allowed myself to get drawn into it again when the conversation was getting overwhelming.

Too many people, too many conversations, way too overstimulating for my abilities. A real cognitive overload poop-show made worse by my challenges with the TiddlyWiki interface.

I am clearly not fit to operate here, and it bums me out.

#10

You are fit, but like a wet suit its not always easy :wink:

#11

Tell me about it. Known it all my life that it must be difficult for everybody else dealing with me.

I know, I deal with me 24x7 for over fifty years.

Good one on one with one topic. Can’t handle more than one person at once and one conversation at a time. And can’t handle too many shiny objects. Everything is a shiny object.

Thanks all for the help, I’m out.