#authoring — Public Fediverse posts

Breadcrumbing in Writing: How to Use This Powerful Storytelling Technique Effectively

https://writersimranthakur.com/2026/04/10/breadcrumbing-in-writing-how-to-use-this-powerful-storytelling-technique-effectively/

I don’t know about you, but this ‘posting’ from Prof Murphy is what I would understand LLM GenAI would be useful for, a directed and well defined (read lots of guardrails) use case that has some merit while still properly resulting as a writer’s work.

“These blog posts, then, began in my thinking, were developed based on discussions with Jacqueline, and were informed by research located by ChatGPT. They were then summarised by ChatGPT and edited by me. I claim full authorship as a result, whilst acknowledging this method of development. This is, after all, how research, thinking and writing have always happened, but with a modern twist added. Initial thoughts provoke discussion. Research follows. First drafts are edited, revised, checked and tested before final edits and publication. ChatGPT was just a tool in that process as much as the resources in a library might once have been.”

The posts are about #economics if you’d care to read them:

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09/07/discussing-quantum-economics-accounting-money-and-more/

#LLM #GenAI #Research #Authoring #WritingTool #ResearchTool #Postulation

I haven’t added an example of how you implement migrations with Kitten’s¹ built-in JSDB database² yet but here’s one that I just used when renaming a field (property) in a table (JavaScript object) from “account” to “data” that illustrates the general granular approach you should take within persisted instances of JavaScript classes.

This is, of course, an advanced use case of the built-in JavaScript database that all Kitten apps have.

Kitten is simple for simple use cases. So check out the Persistence tutorial, for example, to see how easy it is to get started with JSDB in Kitten:

https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/persistence/

And see the Database App Modules tutorial for a more advanced usage where you persist instances of JavaScript classes and have full type safety:

https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/database-app-modules/

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #persistence #JavaScript #database #JavaScriptDatabase #authoring #migrations

So last night, while recording the preview of Kitten’s¹ improved component model², I made a silly mistake (copying raw HTML into a JavaScript function instead of wrapping it in a kitten.html`` tagged template, easy to do when you’re refactoring to pull out components from pages).

Then, once I figured out what I’d done, I made another one by forgetting to return the value from the function (easy to do when you’re used to using one-line closures as render functions).

I would have caught both of those so much faster if Kitten had helpful error messages for those two pitfalls. And guess what, this morning, it does :)

Attached are screenshot showing the before and after error messages.

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² Scroll up the thread to watch the video.

#Kitten #SmallWeb #PeerToPeerWeb #web #server #framework #platform #design #usability #errorMessages #authoring #dev #JavaScript #HTML #CSS #htmx #hypermedia #WebSocket #StreamingHTML #SmallTech

Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework
https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/
#ycombinator #Skribilo #document_programming #document_formatting #authoring #Scheme #Guile #Skribe #Lout #LaTeX #HTML

Currently exploring LiaScript, an #elearning #authoring tool where you write #markdown and get #SCORM.

In this video demo I AI generate a webquest in markdown format, then edit in LiaScript's LiveEditor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81-QAFtipgE

Young but promising project that definitely deserves your attention if you like authoring course content in plain text.

https://liascript.github.io

I'm still not out of the rabbit hole of searching for an #OpenSource #PersonalKnowledgeManagement software. 🐰

I'm gonna give a second try to @zettlr tomorrow! Their docs are *surprisingly* user-friendly and they claim to stick to the pure #CommonMark where probable. It's all the while being nice to researchers with citing, inline usage of #TeXLaTeX, #MermaidJS, and pop-over #footnotes. Provision of the simple #PDF export and #Pandoc customization are welcome, too!

But, to be fair, I may be overexaggerating how good #Zettlr is because of my recent disgust with #VendorLocking. In fact, almost anything that closely follows the common spec and is #FreeSoftware might suffice already. Having something as advanced and closer to the roots is certainly refreshing!

#Markdown #zettelkasten #authoring #Zettlr #ReferenceManager #ReferenceManagers #PKM #NoteTaking #NoteTakingApp #NoteTakingApps #KaTeX #frontmatter #Obsidian #Logseq #Anytype #Notion #VendorLock #VendorLockIn #FOSS #FLOSS