Ward Cunningham

EE and CS from Purdue in the '70s.
Operated Novice through Extra from W9YB.
Career programmer. Objects, Patterns, Wiki.
Always some radio and lots of experimenting.

Historic Home Page: https://c2.com/ward/
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7637

Last Notes

2026-07-26 15:18:46 UTC

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Calm is Baldur’s super power.

2026-06-25 15:00:40 UTC

Today is federated wiki’s 15th birthday.
See our first commit that explains it all: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/commit/40f056aea84a2faa68b1156b90eed71e0218fff7

2026-02-14 02:50:16 UTC

Tip: No matter what AI is doing for you you would be wise to speak human to human with old friends about human things on occasion. It is good practice and they probably miss you.

2025-12-03 23:00:45 UTC

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Ah. Starts broken. What was I thinking?

2025-12-03 16:44:41 UTC

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An amazing discovery.
Can you tell at what point in the billions of generations that the symmetry is broken?

2025-06-30 15:18:03 UTC

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I invite you both to read around this unlikely named page in Wikipedia: Moral Graph. This is the opposite of the “slop” leaking everywhere but still deeply related. Let’s unite in our informed disgust of powerful computation mindlessly applied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_graph

2025-06-05 20:34:07 UTC

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Can we get a “prediction market” going where we speculate on which bully holds the most cards?

2025-02-11 22:52:49 UTC

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“Gulf of Iceland?”
How about WikiWikiGulf?

2024-11-28 18:43:58 UTC

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"Everybody uses AI"
The gold-rush explanation didn't seem sufficient. One must truly believe there is something there to become so devoted.
It's the Psychic's Con:
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

2024-11-02 16:54:31 UTC

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Have you ever played with CocoaWorlds?
CocoaWorlds offers
a cellular simulation, like the Game of Life, only with typed marks that respond to type-specific rules.
http://code.fed.wiki.org/view/cocoaworlds/view/elevator-simulator
I'm thinking I might be able to revive my elevator simulator with rule substitutions over an SVG.
Can you suggest an implementation strategy that might be less web-centric?

2024-11-02 16:42:40 UTC

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There is a lot of value to be found in all models of computation. My favorite is the NAND gate.
I once built a graphics engine out of FET transistors evaluating second-order polynomials in x and y and organized as a two-dimensional systolic array.
http://code.fed.wiki.org/picture-model.html

2024-09-28 01:47:43 UTC

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Send pictures. Pino always looks real and will do so among other's fantasies.