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Many working scientists, students, and hobbyists have wished to create their own tag-based hypertext knowledge base, but the combination of tools historically required to make this happen are extremely daunting. Both the Stacks project and Kerodon use a cluster of software called Gerby, but bitrot has set in and it is no longer possible to build its dependencies on a modern environment without significant difficulty, raising questions of longevity.“
pastage · 1d ago
> In its first 35 years, the Web has sustained three mighty blows:
1. The pop-up advertisement (late 1990s).
2. The emergence of content farms for SEO (2000s).
3. The final drowning of the Old Web in LLM-generated “slop” (now).
This a good manifesto, a reason to improve tools.
I am not a fan of TeX for writing (for layout it fits). But projects like these which concentrate on making tools to publish lower and higher effort knowledge graphs might be a good fit. Complex enough Markdown is just TeX. That said wsiwyg will always win.
“ Many working scientists, students, and hobbyists have wished to create their own tag-based hypertext knowledge base, but the combination of tools historically required to make this happen are extremely daunting. Both the Stacks project and Kerodon use a cluster of software called Gerby, but bitrot has set in and it is no longer possible to build its dependencies on a modern environment without significant difficulty, raising questions of longevity.“
This a good manifesto, a reason to improve tools.
I am not a fan of TeX for writing (for layout it fits). But projects like these which concentrate on making tools to publish lower and higher effort knowledge graphs might be a good fit. Complex enough Markdown is just TeX. That said wsiwyg will always win.