How I use Obsidian Templater One of my favorite Obsidian plugins is Templater, which lets you create reusable templates in your notes vault! cassidoo.co I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them to different tickets / meetings and what not. I’m imagining the graph you can build, it feels quite interesting. Even more relevant as we see things like teams rolling out retention limits to messages. Here is Cassidy’s format, I like it but I’m probably not going to track the birthday of most people I work with, thats just not the relationship I tend to have with work friends. It might be a midwest or non tech thing, but I am not even aware if any of my co-workers have social media, and I assume that if they did it would not include anything work related but more football and other sports.
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docker context (and an issue to question your sanity) docker contexts are great, would recommend putting them in your prompt though (via starship or something else)... here's why My mental data-lake · pype.dev Dang context can really cause you to pull your hair out. Context seems so freaking convenient, but I’ve avoided it and just ssh in for these reasons. Maybe I’ll come around eventually but for now ssh is my friend.
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This is such an improvement to the backend of my website it warrants a blog post of celebration. For far too long I’ve been dealing with a tiny ass edit form on thoughts. I tend to not edit them, and try to get them right in one go. This is kinda the point of a thought, its a quick post meant to be the size of a tweet, but sometimes I’m leaving thoughts on a video or long post and want to make sure I have a good save point, but I just keep the thing in draft and hope I don’t loose if for far too long. Results Let’s see this change in action!! before This is the tiny ass form nested deeply in the flow of the feed. When I made it I naively just swapped out the post itself with the edit form, and swapped the post back in after edit. after Now the edit is a full page modal with a nice blurry backdrop effect to the rest of the content. This feels pretty similar to making a on twitter. How How did I do this with htmx? I had to break out of the mindset my brain was in with swapping in place a…
I’m really excited about jnv, an amazing project by ynqa. It’s worth exploring! Interactive JSON filter using jq
tui-network by Zatfer17 is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. No description available.
I came across markitdown from microsoft, and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
gh-skyline by github is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. A GitHub CLI extension to generate a 3D model of your GitHub contribution history
I’m really excited about studio, an amazing project by outerbase. It’s worth exploring! A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on blahg, created by cassidoo. Cassidy’s blog template built with Astro and TinaCMS!
Reminder to tune in later, can’t watch now, but saw a link on Dave’s blog.
I got the ADHD, too This month I got my official diagnosis for Adult ADHD. It’s fun to share experiences with friends. While ADHD presents some new waters to navigate, it isn’t exactly news to me. Thanks to Dr. Ti... daverupert.com · daverupert.com Cheers to the Unique brains dave. I can say I am 100% with Dave on all of these, except the clean environment thing, lucky Dave. If I have enough room to see what I am doing and walk around a mess, I probably wont even notice it. I’m so hyper focused on what is right in front of me that mess could be a huge pile of cash and i’d never see it.
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How to make your RSS feed pretty Life is too short for ugly XML. cassidoo.co I love me some styled rss, it’s how the OG internet was made to be. You choose what you want to read and when. There is no middleman aggregator inflating the reach of things they want you to see or suffocating things against them. It’s just you and your internet friends. Cassidy’s Styled rss Cassidy has a quite lovely and easy to read rss feed, with an open source style sheet, that is part of her open source blog template for astro blahg, love that name by the way! Dave Rupert’s Feed I first learned of styled rss feeds from shoptalkshow.com, specifically from Dave Rupert. Dave uses a pretty bog standard styled rss feed with pretty-feed-v3. This repo is probably the best place to start if you are looking to style your rss feed. https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-feed-v3.xsl My RSS Feed My feed comes from my static site generator markata, a plugins all the way down static site generator written in python, made for customizing, lacking just about any and all docs so you are on your own.
Today i got hit by this accessibility issue on my site. Low contrast links are not distiniquishable. I had not seen this error title before it was new to me, maybe I have bad memory or maybe it’s new to me.
I ended up dropping the background color of the site down a notch as I didn’t
really care for the semi-dark brown anyways. I’m liking the near black
bg-zinc-950 much better now.
Now I got that 100 A11y score in lighthouse.
Dropper — Private file storage and sharing A private file drop for uploads, previews, and a searchable media library by Waylon Walker. Dropper · dropper.waylonwalker.com Dropper is a place for me to drop files for quick posts like this.
Add a healthcheck to your FastAPI app I'm building a few FastAPI apps to throw in docker and run on my homelab... I wanted to add healthchecks and here's a simple way to do it My mental data-lake · pype.dev Nice example of adding a healthcheck to fastapi, and integrating it with docker. Don’t forget to include curl in the install, nice touch.
GitHub - casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner 🤖 Just a command runner. Contribute to casey/just development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com new versions of just now come with color variables already set.
pipely/justfile at main · thechangelog/pipely I like the idea of having like this 20-line Varnish config that we deploy around the world, and it’s like: Look at our CDN! - thechangelog/pipely GitHub · github.com I found this nugget in thechangelogs justfile, it lets you add color to your justfile with variables quite easily. Usage
Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests. hurl.dev Hurl was mentioned by @gerhard on the latest changelog and Friends. Looks like a feature rich easy to use testing tool that is tested via what looks like a config file. Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can chain requests, capture values and evaluate queries on headers and body response. Hurl is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions. Hurl makes it easy to work with HTML content, REST / SOAP / GraphQL APIs, or any other XML / JSON based APIs.
Today I discovered the Urllink function in bash from the ujust tool from
ublue.it. Seems like a cool trick, but might not work
everywhere.
########
### Special text formating
########
## Function to generate a clickable link, you can call this using
# url=$(Urllink "https://ublue.it" "Visit the ublue website")
# echo "${url}"
function Urllink (){
URL=$1
TEXT=$2
# Generate a clickable hyperlink
printf "\e]8;;%s\e\\%s\e]8;;\e\\" "$URL" "$TEXT${n}"
}
```j
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