live-interface VS dizquetv

If you've got some nodejs, Ruby or Python projects and you want to keep them around for posterity then I recommend thinking how you can package them up so they can be safely archived. You could use docker or a virtual machine image.

In my editor project ( screncast https://github.com/samsquire/live-interface/blob/master/scre... )

In components written in Nodejs, Ruby and Python and they're all in disrepair because I failed to pin dependencies.

Also recommend taking lots of screenshots.

I created a text editor that was meant to be programmable like a spreadsheet but interactive like a IPython notebook.

There's screenshots here:

https://github.com/samsquire/liveinterface

The code is Angular 1 legacy codebase.

https://github.com/samsquire/live-interface

There's a screencast here https://github.com/samsquire/live-interface/blob/master/scre...

It's not buildable at this time due to dependencies...

At one point I tried creating what is Notion/Obsidian style system in 2013. I called it "living documents".

here's one of the last surviving screenshots of living documents version 1.

https://github.com/samsquire/interface-experiments/blob/mast...

The system accepted RDF N3 triples and it queried Jena Fuseki database to render graphs with d3. You could introduce facts into the system with the three boxes at the top. if you changed them, they would autocomplete and change the graph view. You could insert references or links into the document by typing them.

I have the code trapped in a JSBIN SQLite file. It's somewhere in here https://github.com/samsquire/jsbin It uses KnockoutJS.

Living documents v2 has a screen cast of it here https://github.com/samsquire/live-interface/blob/master/scre...

In my experience, modern entertainment takes too much cognitive load to get up and running. With streaming/on demand, I have to make pointed decisions on what show I'm watching. I don't always want to make a decision right now of what to watch, I just want to watch something that's good enough or fits a certain theme. TV Channel creation programs, like DizqueTV[0] or ErsatzTV[1] have taken the load off, or at least lets me do that cognitive work in advance when making the channels.

You still need some way to get input to swap between these digital channels (I use Plex to surface my shows and schedule), but if you have existing local content it really feels like the "old" way of doing TV. You can even add commercials between episodes if you wanted!

I'm not sure if I'd call this foolproof for a 94-year-old, especially since sometimes the software needs to restart, but it's a step above modern streaming IMO.

[0] https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv

Check out https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv

For those interested in doing something similar there's a Plex add-on for making custom TV channels:

https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv

Personally I want almost this. I want to rotate the TV shows my kids watch in the morning but I don't want to start part way through a show (the one part of the old analogue experience that I don't miss at all). Difficult to square that circle.

My idea is for each screen plugged in to its own Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB running at the CLI. The Pi would have its own instance of dizqueTV and its stream viewed through some type of custom program running SMPlayer that is also on the PI and outputting the to hdmi port. DizqueTV would have FFMPEG disabled and the content directly accessed per this guide: https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv/wiki/Raspberry-guide

I have a potato (J4105) Plex server and tried DizqueTV, ErsatzTV and Jason's DizqueTV fork very recently. But I couldn't get it stable unfortunately. When one series would work great, another one wouldn't, or even refused to play. Or certain program boundaries made the player crash from time to time. And watermark overlays were another story of it's own.