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7th November 2020

5tracks – week 45

I’ve been using Obsidian a little over 100 days now. So, with over three months of daily use it’s good to review the experience. I will do this in some detail, and it will span several blogposts. To explain both the evolution over time, as well as how I currently work with Obsidian in practice i…

1st November 2020

From @glitchyowl, first site on the bubble web, the sensation of comic logs.

1st November 2020

Thirteen years ago today I blogged about Google launching Open Social, an API that would allow developers to tap into multiple social networks at once. It was supposed to be an answer to Facebook (who then had opened up their platform silo for developers to build small applications (since removed as…

1st November 2020

Ik heb met veel interesse de blogposts van Ton gelezen hoe hij na 100 dagen Obsidian gebruikt als zijn Personal Knowledge Management instrument. Na een hoog over introductie over zijn eigen werk- en projectprincipes (enorm interessant!) duikt hij in twee posts de diepte in, hoe hij Obsidian inricht …

1st November 2020

I quite like the idea of an antilibrary (a collection of unread books). https://nesslabs.com/antilibrary

I have an antilibrary of articles.

https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/antilibrary-of-articles

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31st October 2020

Cool that Mobilizon (federated Facebook groups/events alternative) is released now. Hope it does well!

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

29th October 2020

The dedication to Amazon in Doctorow’s Little Brother didn’t age well:

"Amazon’s in the process of reinventing what it means to be a bookstore in the twenty-first century and I can’t think of a better group of people to be facing down that thorny set of problems."

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30142/30142-h/30142-h.htm

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29th October 2020

<p>
I tracked down the <code>org-html-convert-region-html</code> method in the org source. Thusly, I am going to try posting HTML formatted notes from Emacs to my site via my micropub elisp thingy, and have them also syndicate to Mastodon via Bridgy. </p>

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28th October 2020

I started reading A Hacker Manifesto. I can tell that it’s inspired by The Society of the Spectacle, in that it seems to just repeat the same words over and over, in various different orderings, and that I can’t make any sense of it. Maybe it’s like Lisp and it will click at some point.

I watched this video (https://invidious.tube/watch?v=eiV0wS_in-4) with McKenzie Wark though and it makes much more sense. Might try reading Capital is Dead first…

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27th October 2020