How would you reimagine blogs around graph databases as the foundation? (Roam, Notion, Gatsby all seem to have blog like functionality in their sights but it feels like a stepchild use case relative to their core use cases of notes, wikis, collaboration, static pages)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1200097087746011136 …
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I guess the question to ask is, what is the most natural graph underlying a blog. I think it is the graph of internal references. Here’s the ribbonfarm graph.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/03/18/elderblog-sutra-5/ …
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The key tension in a blog is between the irreversibility of the log stream in time and the evolving internal reference structure. There is a natural asymmetry as old posts don’t get updated to point to future posts that reference them.
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I think codebase evolution on git has a similar natural structure. The “diff” maps to the “post” and “parent version” to “backlink” Maybe pull request = comment?
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The blogchain concept is something like an attempt to jury-rig an explicit graph structure as
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I think you could get a bit further down this track with the notion of content-aware version histories, as in Codeq https://blog.datomic.com/2012/10/codeq.html …
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Git is just too coarse. It can tell you that there's a new file, or that a file has changed, but you need another layer to work out what the changes mean.
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Alternatively, really embrace the graph concept and make the individual units of content really small. Paragraphs or even sentences?
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How do you see a modification like this affecting the user? What does the end product of a whole bunch of units mean in terms of user experience?
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I read your books and posts because they are immersive and the longer ones tend to create a mindset within me that almost borrows from your intellect and allows me to see things in a way I didn't previously...feels like this effect is lost in the short, feed-based form.
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OTOH there are people who tell me they only follow me on twitter and ignore my long form for exactly the same reason
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