The best time to share your cool stuff is now
Not in the future when you do it perfectly, actually that’s the worst time cause that will never happen
Obsidian as a program
Writing markdown is cool It’s also portable. Crazy that individuals have vendor lockin too.
Storing Media on Github is sorta cursed
2GB filesize limit, but for some reason I think it only decides this is a problem because
Some Open Source projects are better than others
I can really geek out on Quartz Unfortunately contributing to open source is a lot of extra work I don’t have time for but I wish I did
Builing an Obsidian Plugin
https://github.com/Elijer/obsidian-plugin-sendit
I also built a Chrome Plugin
It lets me copy things because I do a lot of that
Git Submodules are cool but cursed
But this can be annoying - for example it means you need to commit your parent module even if you are only updating your submodule, so that it’s pointed to the right hash, which seems wrong to me.
Analytics
This is why some open source projects are better than others!
Search addGlobalPageResources in garden
Personally I think having all analytics is better than having SOME analytics
Hotjar is kinda creepy, but also OP
Permalinking weird issues
- Zulip and
) - I had to change the permalinks to be an array as well
Problems
- Syncing things
- Can’t access files on the subway cause they are on S3
- Sometimes my whole submodule gets deleted when I sync my github action and I don’t know why
- Oh oh my RSS feed is ridiculous, Quartz 4 didn’t have content submodules in mind so the github crawler doesn’t have a way to get the date from submodules
Shoutouts
- To Jeremy Kaplan for helping me dive into a github crawling module written in rust and sharing things about git submodules I have mostly forgotten
- Wolf for inspiring me to make an Obsidian plugin
- Wrong Answers Only is Tomorrow