Simili

Tag: blind

  • What is Context? Keep it short & simple please.

    Merriam Webster defines Context this way: : the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning Vague. Fuzzy. They didn’t really know what Context is. Because Context was a Rabbit Hole. But the Blind Guy figured it out. I started this project because a client, and…

  • Why Trees?

    If trees are so great, then why aren’t they being used now? Because in order to make a tree-based search possible, somebody has to create a tree of everything. This is impossible. Even if we create a big tree with millions of entries, such a tree is impossible to work with. Enter Simili and Tag…

  • What is Simili?

    Simili is the movement to create the Internet Library for Humanity, Terra Cognos. The Blind Guy, Paul Wolborsky, is founder, original architect & developer for the infrastructure & essential technologies. The Internet is the greatest treasure Humankind ever owned, but its knowledge & data are all dissolute, incoherent, siloed, raw nuggets buried in mountains of…

  • s23n – the Simili 23 Notation System

    S23N The Blind Guy created a new technology to ID Category links in tree branches, called the Simili 23 Notation. It converts a term’s ID number into binary & replace 1’s & 0’s with a pair of characters starting with 2’s & 3’s, the pair depending on the link’s place in the branch. Top concepts…

  • This Website

    is different… – Simple Menu/Categories: who, what so far. Snippet-like posts. Content uses tag words – I fill in the tag base & use auto-tagging to tag posts – I will write a plugin that shows all the snippets related to a thing. Like, me. – Semiotics. I’m blind but I have a few simple…

  • My Process

    Due to blindness, I developed a process to minimize errors. – I work with hosts to craete & update a Staging & sometimes Development copy of a website – I use the FTP software WinSCP for Staging & Development sites, and Filezilla for the Live site. This way I wouldn’t accidentally update a Live site.…

  • Disclaimers

    It’s amazing that I’m a blind Web Developer. But you need to be aware: – I am not fast. It takes 4-5x longer to do work blind. I debug the old-fashioned way. I make typos. – I require client help in QA. I cannot see what my pages look like & strangers may not know…

  • I am a blind Web Developer

    I use the free treasure, the NVDA screen reader. My monitor is dark, no matter. I have learned to navigate websites & web apps using a few simple keys. I don’t use custom shortcuts. I use 20 years coding experience to visualize my code. I’m 95% capable.

  • I am blind since 2019

    I was diagnosed in 1995 w/Retinitis Pigmentosa, a disease of the retina. It took nearly 25 years until 2019, when I could no longer read words on my monitor. My left eye is dark but I see some light in my right.

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