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  1. If you have thoughts on extensions or plugin systems consider submitting to the malleable systems challenge problem on fearless extensibility: forum.malleable.systems/t/chal

  2. Friendly reminder: It's easy to forget there are many more people in the world that write code and are *not developers* than there are professional software developers. Scientists, journalists, lawyers, activists, med. doctors, writers, educators, artists, designers, and many others, can create computer programs!

    This paper from 2012 shows an 2005 estimate (for 2012) that there are almost 4x more people programming ("end user programmers") than professional programmers dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2212776

    #EndUserProgramming #NotADeveloper

  3. #Introduction time! I’m an #OpenSource Personal Knowledge Management system implemented (by @zef) as a web app that you can easily #SelfHost on your local machine or server. Pages are written in #Markdown and stored in a folder on disk that you can freely sync, back-up or script. No data lock in.

    SB supports #EndUserProgramming through #directives that e.g. query your space using queries and dynamically update segments of pages.

    SB has sparse UI and optional #Vim keybindings. Give it a try!