A garden of gardens.
Author: Neil Mather
Winter is fucking *coming*.
I had a hack about and got the beginnings of a local graph view working per page on my wiki.
It’s based on the graph visualisation code in org-roam-server.
I’ve turned it off again for now, as it’s super hacky and really slow. But could be good with a bit of tweaking.
Listening to the FOSS and Crafts episode on an ethics of agency, Chris Webber’s ethical framework. Liking it so far, and the links to the recent Declaration of Digital Autonomy.
https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/11-an-ethics-of-agency.html
I just reinstalled koreader on my kobo ereader. It’s come on so much since last time I used it (a year or two ago?) The fact that it’s a built-in menu in Nickel (Kobo’s default system) makes it so much easier to launch.
Dark mode is so nice. And now it has its own Wallabag plugin, for reading articles you’ve saved online, which is awesome. (I was using Wallabako, which was cool but no longer needed).
My notes here: Installing koreader on my Kobo.
I wanted to see how my org-roam files look like in Obsidian‘s graph view. Commence massive yak shave to recursively convert a folder of org files to markdown. Result below, pretty much a copy paste from here: Bulk Org-Mode to Github Flavored Markdown. (I didn’t bother with github flavoured markdown though).
In the process I discovered that pandoc doesn’t convert extensions of cross-file links, which was massively annoying.
;;;###autoload
(require 'org)
(defun dired-org-to-markdown ()
(let ((files
(append
(let ((default-directory "."))
(mapcar #'expand-file-name
(file-expand-wildcards "**/*.org")))
(let ((default-directory "."))
(mapcar #'expand-file-name
(file-expand-wildcards "*.org")))
)
))
(mapc
(lambda (f)
(with-current-buffer
(find-file-noselect f)
(org-md-export-to-markdown)))
files))
)
(dired-org-to-markdown)
Pop the above in a file called something like export.el, then run it with:
emacs --batch --load=export.el
Watched @mayel@pub.mayel.space ‘s video on CommonsPub. Great project in general, particularly looking forward to Bread.Pub and Bonfire.
Along with the decentralised news, I think ‘ActivityPub but for economic activities’ is the other exciting Fediverse direction for me right now. Like ValueFlows, and again @bob@epicyon.freedombone.net building sharing economy things into Epicyon.
https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d66cf9ea-e8bf-452e-bb36-e88a402e3da2
The news part of the Fediverse
Just watched Hamish Campbell’s video on Open Media Network and rebooting Indymedia. Really interesting.
Also @bob@epicyon.freedombone.net is adding Indymedia-like features to Epicyon.
This is exciting
https://conf.tube/videos/watch/953de898-74dc-4665-95fb-313042f66cc6
Reading through the sites of longtimers of the web, like Ton‘s site, and more recently Phil Jones‘ and Bill Seitz‘ wikis, and what they link to, makes you realise that there’s such a ton of written history out there. It’s a real treasure trove. And that it’s important that it has been recorded out on the open web, not in some silo that might have vanished and the history been lost.
Also makes me realise that much of what I’m thinking about has been thought about before! There’s some great resources out there. Phil calls some of the recent activity around this a renewal or a reboot. It’s good to have history to read through.