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Welcome!: rpdillon.net is a personal blog at rpdillon.net about programming and productivity. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this page as a TiddlyWiki saver for redbean single-file HTML, a way to save changes back to a self-contained note. The comments only link it as a tool and ask whether it is still in use.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-19
- Tiddlywiki: A Database for Your Notes (2022)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-01
What Hacker News says?
Is https://rpdillon.net/redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html still what you're using?
Comment linking /redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html
on “Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file”Submitted Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver as a story · 165 points
HN discussionCold brew is much less acidic, and I find warmed cold brew to be exceptionally smooth compared with hot brew. I got my recipe from a NYT interview with the CEO (I think?) of Blue Bottle, though I've since lost the link. This is my copy: https://rpdillon.net/recipes/new-orleans-cold-brew-coffee.ht...
Comment linking /recipes/new-orleans-cold-brew-coffee.html
on “Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation”Submitted Tiddlywiki: A Database for Your Notes (2022) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou could make this self contained and truly portable with "real" save using https://rpdillon.net/redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html
Comment linking /redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html
on “Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file”Submitted Tiddlywiki: A Database for Your Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's also true in the context of (1), since the syntax specification specifically falls back to HTML for difficult things like tables. This is made abundantly clear on the Syntax page[0]: > Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. > Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of…
Comment linking /why-doesnt-emacs-org-mode-just-use-markdown-2021.html
on “I prefer rST to Markdown”I often post about Tiddlywiki on HN, so this is a bit of a repeat, but I think Tiddlywiki comes really close. I wrote a bit about it earlier in the year because it occurred to me that, with filters, it really is a database for your notes. My writeup is not complete, but hopefully gives some idea of how Tiddlywiki could be used in this way. https://rpdillon.net/tiddlywiki-a-database-for-your-notes-20...
Comment linking /tiddlywiki-a-database-for-your-notes-2022.html
on “Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software”Org mode is a coherent whole, and has capabilities far beyond what Markdown can accomplish (Markdown is inherently HTML-based, org-mode is not). Markdown's history is littered with folks trying to augment it in just the right way to bring these sorts of features, which has resulted in a diaspora of flavors, none particularly dominant+powerful (which is to say, no real org-mode competitor has emerged, even though one…
Comment linking /why-doesnt-emacs-org-mode-just-use-markdown-2021.html
on “Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode”Sorry for taking so long to respond...I was out on vacation! The general strategy is to figure out what state needs to be stored in your app, and combine that into one div in the page that can be grabbed via something like innerHTML. For a gallery app that is viewing pictures on copyparty, that will be the metadata, like the URL of the image, the tags you want to apply and/or what category it is in, the index within…
Comment linking /redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html
on “Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?”Just to follow up, here's a quick example[0] I threw together. I really need to turn this into a plugin, but because it somewhat depends on things like how journal tiddlers are titled and tagged, it's currently more of a distro. I hope it's interesting! [0]: https://rpdillon.net/NotedeckExample.html
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on “Tiddlyhost is a free hosting platform for TiddlyWiki”