Jul 20
New to wikis?
Something we found happening a lot was this: during research, we’d discover lots of little facts. We’d file these away on pages already devoted to hacks or potential hacks. Later, when we came to write these, we’d find the notes we’d recorded but forgotten, and the writing would be better for it. Often, one of us would make a note, and the other would happen to run across it, and know more about it. Because the whole book was written on our private wiki, it benefited from these ideas that we could capture without breaking stride—in fact, it was only the easy editing that a wiki provides that allowed us to record these ideas at all. Had it been any harder, we wouldn’t have wanted to pause while writing one hack to jot down ideas on another.