player.html VS TiddlyWiki

Compare player.html vs TiddlyWiki and see what are their differences.

player.html

One file drop-in video player web app for using video files served using basic directory listing (by pseudosavant)

TiddlyWiki

A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc. (by Jermolene)
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player.html TiddlyWiki
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0.0 9.6
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MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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player.html

Posts with mentions or reviews of player.html. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-15.
  • Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2021
    This is a great exploration of how to use SVG on the web. It is a very under-utilized technology.

    One thing that would add to this post is to point out that you can define an SVG once in a document and then reference it everywhere else. That way you aren't inlining the actual SVG markup over and over and over.

    1. Place your SVG inline anywhere in the document. I usually put all of them in a `

    ` I do `display: none` on.

    2. Make sure you assigned each SVG an ID: ``

    3. Reference that SVG anywhere in your document using ``

    I use it extensively in a Github project (shameless plug) I've been working on lately. https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html/blob/master/src/...

  • Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2021
    I love the utility of single file web apps, even if this one does use 2 external dependencies.

    I've gotten into this myself. I made a couple of (actually) single file web apps for navigating/viewing videos on a web server, or Markdown on a web server.

    https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html

    https://github.com/pseudosavant/markdown.html

  • Ask HN: Has anyone hired a freelance developer for a MVP?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2021
    I have the same question.

    I've tried working with UpWork, but their developers seem more geared towards "known"-type of projects, involving specific tech, or specific type of jobs, or fix it jobs.

    I presented a project of some advanced JS, nothing too serious, and almost every developer declined or couldn't understand the requirements, likely because they didn't read any of my material about the project.

    The job is pretty simple: add support for https://play.Presenta.cc .json files to https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html#playerhtml. I want to be able to have a Presenta File player, so I can play the Presenta slideshow files and video files from my local folder using the html page. That's generally it. Upwork couldn't deliver.

    This job was step one, in a very few number towards an MVP.

    Nobody on Upwork seems to be able to do this.

    I'm pretty disappointed with UpWork.

TiddlyWiki

Posts with mentions or reviews of TiddlyWiki. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.
  • It's 29 Delphi, I mean
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
    > What does ownership mean here?

    It means owning the code and the data. With webapps, the code and data are hosted and owned, the users do not own the code, cannot run it independently. This is a clear dileneation between owner and user, and the owners can use that clear line to create artificial scarcity of various kinds. (The most popular being the subscription SaaS model). It's also easier to defend your IP since end users never see your binaries.

    I like to make my software single html files whenever possible. People can just save them and run them locally. Havent met anyone who cares yet though.

    I like that idea a lot, and I care. I think others care, but yes, it's a niche interest. Take a look at https://tiddlywiki.com/ for an example of a fairly successful project that uses the single html format running locally. However it suffers from limitations on File|Save which often requires a separate runtime of some kind to support.

    Another project that approaches this ideal is https://redbean.dev/, @jart's tiny, performant, featureful single-file webserver. In this case the "single file" is a server executable + zip whose state must be updated on the command-line, but I think hits a sweet spot in terms of practicality, and a global minima when it comes to minimizing dependencies. (Redbean bundles SQLite and Lua so it's also possible to do through-the-web state updates as in a traditional webapp.)

    My own project, Simpatico, aspires to be something along these lines. Eventually your browser tab is both a client and server process, connecting via websockets to other connected browsers, storing all state locally. I call this pattern "monomorphism", a play on the "isomorphic" javascript SPA. The server[2] is currently written in ~1 node file, but eventually I would like to port to redbean (and greenbean, the websocket version of redbean, but it isn't quite ready yet). The server grew several features to support a fast, practical BTD loop using markdown[1], and safe, performant execution on the public internet[2], but ultimately I'd like to pare it down to serving a single html file and allow the connected clients to provide all diversity of experience. I've used it to explore all kinds of browser apis, from crypto[3] to svg[4] to writing my own libraries (combine[4] and stree[5]). And it's all running locally, and easily hosted on a $5 VPS, and its all open source.

    1 - https://simpatico.io/lit.md

    2 - https://simpatico.io/reflector

    3 - https://simpatico.io/crypto

    4 - https://simpatico.io/combine

    5 - https://simpatico.io/stree

  • TiddlyWiki – A non-linear personal web notebook
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024
  • Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024
  • Software suggestions
    1 project | /r/mothershiprpg | 7 Dec 2023
    I use TiddlyWiki. It's a portable editable wiki that doesn't require a web server or web hosting. You open it from your computer, edit it, and save it. You get all of the linking that you'd expect to see in a wiki, and it's super readable and easy to use.
  • BASIC Anywhere Machine
    1 project | /r/QBeducation | 11 Sep 2023
    It is a single-HTML-file TiddlyWiki instance that runs in a web browser (offline as well as online), meant to be downloaded and stored wherever suits you best. Everything that you see when working in BASIC Anywhere Machine (everything that makes "BAM" work as an IDE and all BASIC programs) exist in the one HTML file.
  • TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
    TiddlyWiki still works as intended: https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted but there are so many different clients to run on. Mobile or Desktop ? What OS? What Browser?

    This effort https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/ is remarkable as the mobile side of saving is not as robust as on the desktop side of things and there is a scaling limit on performance as the number of tiddlers grows. Also the syncing between tw documents between different desktop/mobile clients can be a challenge with diffing.

    Since then I've moved back to plain vanilla vim for a wiki (map gf :tabe ) but tw.html is still good for data other than plain text and TiddlyPWA https://tiddly.packett.cool/ is a great effort to revisit TiddlyWiki again.

  • Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2023
    You should check out TiddlyWiki as it’s designed around the concept that small linkable notes are the best way to organize.

    https://tiddlywiki.com/

  • Does anyone do a digital journal?
    1 project | /r/Journaling | 12 Jul 2023
    It’s html based so you can access it in the same way you would access a website but it can be locally stored. Saving is a bit tricky but there are multiple solutions detailed on their site. https://tiddlywiki.com/
  • Be brutally honest: What are the chances of a motivated 50-year-old person in US who have never studied computers to be able not only to teach herself how to code but also to make a bare minimum living?
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 11 Jul 2023
  • Expose Tiddly on Network
    1 project | /r/TiddlyWiki5 | 5 Jul 2023
    Hi, you can use tw on nodejs with npm package tiddlywiki....

What are some alternatives?

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logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

cardi - A full-featured, static-generated PWA for notes stored in privately owned DynamoDB tables

Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

github-scrumboard - :calendar: GitHub Scrumboard Chromium Extension

obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

kanban - A basic kanban board in a single HTML file using browser native drag & drop and localStorage for persistence

Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

solid - Solid - Re-decentralizing the web (project directory)

Mediawiki - 🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.