Kevin Kuhl: RSS, Syndication, and the Future of the Web We’ve spent 20 years trying to fund the web with human attention and we ended up with a surveillance economy that feels unsustainable. I think the future consists of a mix of tools for discovery and paying for the content that you want to support or use, and I...

Brendon Bigley: Discord’s Shot, Discord’s Chaser Why does Discord leadership feel so secure about their place in the market? Their app is a clone of Slack that’s been geared towards gamers, which are historically the most picky genre of hobbyists in the world and also the most technically inclined. While I wouldn’t say...

I got a new water heater about a year ago, so it was time to drain it. I found this video that has a lot of good tips: The whole process took less than an hour. It was pretty easy.

This Obsidian plugin can grab RSS feeds and put articles in a specified folder. While a traditional RSS reader is better suited for most situations, something like this can still be handy for making backups of your posts, for example. Open in Obsidian GitHub link

I use Sofa to keep track of my games (and maybe shows and movies soon too). And now that Obsidian natively supports shortcuts, I can add what I play to my daily notes automatically. While I could just enter everything into Obsidian directly, having a dedicated UI along with widgets makes organizing and logging things...

Preparing for the arrival of twin boys in the next couple of months. Trying to get back into reading after not doing it for over a decade. I've read five books since August and have enjoyed it so far. Currently reading Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda by David Michaels. Working on this site. Playing EA...

Some YouTube videos I enjoyed this year, ordered by release date: Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think Algorithmic complacency, if not noticed and acted upon, means you're allowing other people who are not you to decide what matters to you. The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE A good...

I've seen a lot of people do this so I figured it would be fun to share mine. Inspired by the Hemispheric Views podcast. 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail 📝 Notes: Obsidian, Drafts ✅ To-Do: Things 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera, sometimes Halide 🟦 Photo Management: Apple Photos 📆 Calendar: Apple...

Whenever I created a daily note in Obsidian, I would manually move it to the correct Year/Month folder. I recently discovered that you can set the date format so that it is in the correct one by default: You can automatically organize your daily notes into folders using the Date format feature. For instance, if you set...

Obsidian is one of my favorite apps. I use it every day at work to stay organized and take notes. Below is an outline of my current setup. Note Organization I try to keep things simple using folders. The main ones are: _Inbox Daily Notes Jira Issues Meetings Misc Support Tickets Tasks A folder for general notes about...

This shortcut does the following: Toggle White Point (dims screen more) Turn orientation lock on Set brightness to 5% Set media volume to 0% This can be useful if you set up an automation to run the shortcut at bedtime and when you wake up in the morning. Get shortcut

Unhook This is a neat extension that will hide all the stuff on YouTube you don’t need.

I needed to schedule service for my car, so I dialed the number of the service department assistant who had previously sent an email about it. I was transferred twice before finally speaking with the right person to schedule my appointment. In the signature of the email, the assistant's phone extension was listed. I had...

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