<story><title>TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids</title><url>https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>12907835202</author><text>Wow TiddlyWiki reminds me of how I got started with web development in all the wrong ways.&lt;p&gt;I told my Dad I wanted to make a website for my favourite computer game so he sat me infront of MS Frontpage and got me started. After I while I got to the point i&amp;#x27;ve made a forum but all the comments where dummy text in static HTML, so my Dad setup PHP on the computer and basically left me to it with a single index.php file and a intro to PHP book. The problem was when I looked things up, I was always asking the wrong questions. So instead of asking, &amp;quot;how can I store comments in a database and then fetch them for displaying?&amp;quot;, I asked &amp;quot;how can I append a new comment to my HTML file?&amp;quot;. I wound up with some crazy (working!) forum where every time a comment was added it would append to a HTML file. Then I wanted a more complex layout I had to figure out how to use a regex to append it in the right place. Then even more crazy regex to handle editing and deleting comments. Then when the file got too big I wanted to add pagination and this took me ages to get right shifting comments between pages when a comment was deleted so there was still 10 per page.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I discovered that databases exist and i&amp;#x27;ve been a web developer for 18 years now.&lt;p&gt;Crazy to think there&amp;#x27;s now a cool use case for an entire app stored in a single .html file. Maybe I wasn&amp;#x27;t as dumb as I thought back then.</text></comment>
<story><title>TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids</title><url>https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simbolit</author><text>I have to say I don&amp;#x27;t understand this.&lt;p&gt;Tiddlywiki was great because it was a single file, the whole point of tiddlywiki was being a single self-modifying html file. No app needed.&lt;p&gt;And back when it was created it worked fantastically. Then browser vendors closed a number of &amp;#x27;security loopholes&amp;#x27; and TW stopped working as intended.&lt;p&gt;I understand wanting a modern app-style hypertext-note-taking thing.
I don&amp;#x27;t understand why you&amp;#x27;d use TW as a template.</text></comment>