rns.recipes

specifically https://reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Welcome I'm asking as might want to write up some information about how to develop stuff for reticulum, there's not much general documentation for reticulum specially if you aren't using python (and you always make it easier for the guy after you if you can) and I'm wondering if it's official/if anyone actually uses it

for example, it took me about 25 minutes to figure out that all fields passed as environment variables for dynamic pages are passed with the prefix field_ and that's just not stated anywhere? (at least not stated inside the nomadnet guide which is what I was using) So if I can't get those 25 minutes of my life back I at least wanna help the next 100 people after me. And if there was just one general wiki for everything reticulum development or otherwise, it would be nice for on-boarding and getting people up to speed as quickly as possible

It's not official, it's made by/for the community. And it's only as good as people make it, so you're more than welcome to add to it. The content is pretty basic so far, mainly referring to the manual for more details. That is the official source of truth anyway.

Your particular issue is very particular though, particular to NomadNet even. It's the kind of issue where you have to spend some time and effort reading the code to figure it out. Or, if you're lazy, ask DeepWiki to do it for you (and hope that it gets it right).

I don't know who uses the community wiki, but it is being used… some: https://reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Analytics?period=31

the string "_field" is in the nomadnet source code (https://github.com/markqvist/NomadNet/blob/master/nomadnet/ line 173) Node.py so I can't be totally imaging it, but I cannot really figure out the why (there's no a single comment in this entire file); maybe something to do with using rust, hard to tell. But this is the kind of stuff I'd like to write about, Reticulum I believe is a really fucking cool concept with decent execution, but, documentation and explanation on this kinda stuff; could use some work.

As for the wiki; yea I'll go contribute new stuff, you learn by teaching anyways. I'd like it to be mildly official thing but that's a big ask when there's nothing there yet, I'll see what can be done about that. I'll at least make a page on the fundamentals for making a dynamic nomadnet page, but that'll have to be after I'm doing with nomadnet currently.

Remember that almost all of this was designed, written, tested and maintained by one strange dude living in a campervan on a donation income of around 400 bucks a month, while working on it as if it was two full-time jobs.

While I'd honestly say that the 200+ page manual covers Reticulum itself pretty decently, there is a limit to how many keystrokes one man can carry out in a year. Some code reading, discovery, experimentation and self-learning will be required.

That said, if you can alleviate the information gaps, others will probably be very thankful.