jgdgj

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Programmer with an interest in seeing what the Xanadu system actually was.... so I built a complete variant rooted in the open source Gold variant, migrated to Rust, and updated with technology from the last 30 years, including CRDT, Blake3, and more. Also, we put together 80 documents describing Gold and included a few hundred diagrams, to hopefully make the implementation more understandable.

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The test was green. It had never once done what it claimed github.com

1 jgdgj 9 days ago 0 comments

Open source for 27 years, unread: what LLMs changed about the Xanadu code dgjones.info

1 jgdgj 25 days ago 0 comments

Comment · 25 days ago

10 minutes disappeared in my "study" of the elephant movement. Now I see elephants around every corner...

Comment · 26 days ago

There are cases where good old software never had their chance, such as Ted Nelsons Xanadu hypertext. It was mostly built, but when the programmers left, the algorithms were a huge barrier for new devs. Now LLMs can help new programmers to understand complex code bases and bring them back to life.

Comment · 26 days ago

I'm happy to see Kent Beck is still trying to get the best from technology as it rolls through.

Comment · 26 days ago

I'm impressed that the colours are still so vibrant, based on the photos from the books. Some extra context around restoration of of the book would help.

Comment · 1 month ago

I wanted to know what Xanadu actually was, so I built it: Xudanu the open-source Udanax Gold design, migrated to Rust, with 30 years of newer technology (CRDTs, BLAKE3, ed25519 provenance). Everything is bidirectional — links visible from both ends, quotations as live windows onto originals.

Show HN: Xudanu – Nelson's Xanadu Gold, Working in Rust xudanu.com

2 jgdgj 1 month ago 1 comments