Posts tagged: dev

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.

A slug is the part of the url that comes after the domain. Commonly matches the file name of a markdown file many blogging systems. These are typically human readable, unique identifiers for pages within the site.

Wikilinks are a core concept within obsidian to link to documents by Slug wrapped in double square brackets. These are commonly used within wiki site generators.

[[slug]]

Obsidian gives you a keybinding alt+enter to go to that file, but if it does not exist it will create the file for you in the root of the project. It’s a nice way to quickly make new documents.

It was not obvious to me, but if you have a wikilink such as Trying Obsidian, you can jump to the file in obsidian, just like you can with lsp go to definition, the keybinding is alt + enter.

I’ve long used copier to create all of my posts for my blog, and it works really well for my workflow. I think of a title, call a template, and give it a title. out of the box obsidian did not seem to work this way. It seems like it wants me to right click a file tree and make a new file using the tree, this is not my jam.

Here is what I came up with to replace my til template.

---
date: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
templateKey: til
title: <%*
  const originalFileName = await tp.system.prompt("Enter file name");
  const toTitleCase = str => str.replace(
    /\w\S*/g,
    txt => txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase()
  );
  const title = toTitleCase(originalFileName);
  tR += title + '\n'; // Add the title to the template result
-%>
published: true
tags:
  -
---
<%*
const fileName = originalFileName.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-');
const newFilePath = `pages/til/${fileName}`;
await tp.file.move(newFilePath);
-%>

<% tp.file.cursor() %>

• tR is a return value, and it gets placed directly into the place it is in the file
• to.file.cursor() creates a tab-index point so I can tab into the content

I’m giving obsidian a go as an editor for my blog and one of the main things I want to fix in my workflow is the ability to quickly drop in images. on first look through the community plugins I found Image Converter. I set it up to convert to webp and drop them in a git submodule. I may make it something other than a git repo in the future, but I’ve learned that adding images to my blog repo quickly makes it heavy and hard to clone on other machines.

Once the images are there they are pushed and deployed as their own site to cloudflare pages. I made a quick edit to my sick wikilink hover plugin for my blog. if it sees a wikilink ending in webp, convert the domain over to obsidian-assets.waylonwalker.com, and clean up the remaining "! " that the python md-it library leaves behind.

This is part of me getting set up and Trying Obsidian