eastgate
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AI-infused
10/1/2025
> Please note, also, that my criticisms of MCP have nothing to do with AI as such, but with the architecture of this vital intermediate layer.
OK: so you're opposed to pipes — the foundation of...
AI-infused
9/30/2025
Earlier today, I read a rather sophisticated Twitter thread summarizing a series of recent papers that study prompts. The Twitter thread summarized the conclusions and provided a nice picture for eac...
AI-infused
9/30/2025
"I can be very careful, but the next guy won’t be.”
This argument is not new. It was adduced, for example, to show that students ought not to be permitted to use libraries, because they m...
AI-infused
9/29/2025
Paul:
There’s a place for skepticism. This is not that.
If you are worried about that which is behind the curtain, LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN. Don’t cite irrelevant credulous clickbait ...
AI-infused
9/29/2025
There comes a point — and we are at that point right here — where this becomes merely speaking of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. This forum is typically better than this.
MCP is very si...
AI-infused
9/26/2025
Perhaps other uses of MCP are insecure, but this is NOT a concern in with Tinderbox (https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/).
1. Your notes are in Tinderbox. If Tinderbox wanted to do something nefariou...
AI-infused
9/24/2025
Tinderbox 11 uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard to communicate with any compliant LLM. Claude Desktop is the one on which we’ve focused initially, but several other LLMs have adopte...
Tinderbox goes AI
8/16/2025
I think I have a decent record of directing my attention! In any case, MCP support is (a) not terribly difficult, and (b) absolutely fascinating. I’m writing a series at https://markBernstein....
I believe this issue is far less dire than it was a generation ago.
Take Tinderbox (https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/), which I design. It’s huge, opinionated, and exotic. Its documents are ...
Splitting Items
4/7/2024
An operation that some outliners support is *splitting* an item. For example, we have this outline:
Animal
Lions Tigers
We place the cursor after Lions and choose SPLIT. Now we have
...
This is absolutely in Tinderbox’s wheel house. Plus, you’ve got a powerful outliner, hyperbolic link views, and lots of analytic power if you need it.
For light-weight tasks, perhaps Sca...
Tinderbox (and friends) on sale
6/12/2015
That sounds like a caching error. Try this alternate link:
http://www.artisanalSoftwareFestival.com/
Twig
6/12/2010
Tinderbox has some great abilities that we value a lot, even though their capabilities demand a certain amount of complexity. It has very flexible export, though you might need to write an export tem...
Zoot to Tinderbox data exchange
2/19/2010
On Tinderbox -> Zoot:
The export language is a lot less forbidding than it might appear. Again, we need to know what Zoot wants to import; once you know that, it's usually easy to make a Tinderbox ex...
Zoot to Tinderbox data exchange
2/19/2010
Does Zoot export any other formats?
If not, why not email me a small sample export from Zoot; perhaps we can make this simpler.
Tinderbox 4.6
3/9/2009
Tinderbox *is* a wiki; CamelCase words are implicity linked to a note with the corresponding name; if the note doesn't exist yet, Tinderbox makes one.
Conventional Tinderbox links may be hidden until...
Tinderbox 4.6
3/7/2009
Chris:
You *can* display attributes in map view! Just set the note's DisplayExpression. More interestingly, a container or agent can now display a custom summary table of its children's attributes;...