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These are some useful but quite unofficial tutorials written by ~hidduc-posmeg, who's probably asleep right now. It's always pathetic when your users shame you
by yarvin9 11y ago
These are some useful but quite unofficial tutorials written by ~hidduc-posmeg, who's probably asleep right now. It's always pathetic when your users shame you into documentation by reverse-engineering the system and writing their own. (See also: https://github.com/laanwj/urbit-tools https://github.com/laanwj/urbit-tools)
These are markdown files served from ~hidduc-posmeg's own planet and converted to HTML by urbit, proxied by ~hidduc-posmeg's star ~doznec. Since this system isn't actually supposed to be live yet, hidduc-posmeg.urbit.org is DNSed to doznec.urbit.org; ~doznec talks to ~hidduc-posmeg over Urbit's own network, an encrypted P2P protocol (%ames). Ideally, hidduc-posmeg.urbit.org would DNS to the actual Unix server the planet is running on, for obvious reasons.
This whole thing, like http://www.urbit.org http://www.urbit.org, would fall over in a few seconds of HN traffic if it wasn't behind an nginx cache. However, if you look at your network window you should see a long-poll. If ~hidduc-posmeg edits zir tutorials from vim on zir Unix server and saves, this will drive an update event that'll propagate forward and refresh your browser. You can see this in action in our demos...
- qnaal 11y ago> zir did you have a stroke?
- yarvin9 11y agoI'm not normally a huge fan of gender-neutral pronouns, but you have heard of pseudonymity? ~hidduc-posmeg is an HN user with a very definite gender, but doxing is bad karma and avoiding pronouns is cumbersome. So, why not? In a system where you choose your own handle, you tend to gender it. But when your "name" is just a number in a phonetic base, it seems like a pity to sacrifice any of its delicious opacity. This obviously shouldn't be read as some sort of taking sides in some culture war or other...
- anonymoushn 11y agoA gender-neutral pronoun that is not also a common name would be "They." People named Ze and Xe may not appreciate becoming pronouns.
- yarvin9 11y ago"They" is fine, though clunky at times. It is important to note that some persons may be triggered by nontraditional gender-neutral pronouns.
- juped 11y agoNo markdown about it - it's a ford page, and the example code is actually compiled and evaluated along with everything else. Urbit is secretly much cooler than you give it credit for...
- yarvin9 11y agoDoh! Yeah, another thing Urbit is ok at is generating HTML. If you were designing a language, especially a language that's basically in some sense a Lisp, in 2015, you'd probably want custom syntax for XML-shaped data, to avoid having to use a separate template syntax...