Daily Journal 📓 September 2020

Shorter dated entries, links, and microblogs, plus GitHub & Tangled stars.

Sep 20201:00am

- Reading Zeynep Tufekci's article in The Atlantic This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic - It's not R. - Finally actually read some of the Foam stuff, which I did have installed in my VSCode. The Markdown Notes extension I've now configured to properly create new notes, which is great. - Ironically, the way the actual Foam extension generates Link References at the bottom of each file, doesn't work for me at all. Simply Jekyll takes care of that, because I can just use a wiki link and it takes care of looking up the file and matching it. - Of course, the concern I have with SJ…

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Sep 202012:17am

⭐️ muesli/duf Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better ‘df’ alternative

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Sep 202011:10pm

⭐️ earthly/earthly Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.

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Sep 20201:00am

- The tiny mention of Simply Jekyll in yesterday's journal turned into pouring all of my content into that template instead. - Since I had to go into Cloudflare to update the IPNS link, I fixed my blog SSL issue. - blog.bmannconsulting.com is still running on Netlify, and something with the Netlify certificate and the Cloudflare stuff changed. - Cloudflare lets you generate certs, and this blog post tells you what to paste into Netlify's third field. - I suspect editing the IPNS will mean that Cloudflare will mostly hang on to the cache for 6 hours or so. I voted for the purge cache for…

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Sep 20201:37pm

⭐️ raghudotcc/simply-jekyll A simple yet highly functional jekyll theme with backlinks, wiki-style links, context menu, page preview, sidenote etc

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Sep 20201:00am

- Both Stream and Garden collapsed:: true - @ton asked: - What could a site look like if it was neither a blog or wiki, but had both those types of content (both stream and garden, so to speak)? Any good examples you know of? https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/09/15034 - Well, that's basically what I'm exploring here! - I think notes == wiki and journal == blog, although journals are much more of a mix. - For both, using backlinks / wiki-likes rather than exclusively linking or commenting out is a difference. Even bringing in an article or a link to a tool as something more note-like leads to…

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Sep 20201:00am

--- title: Sept 26th, 2020 date: 2020-09-26 --- Thinking about a desktop PC The iMac I have at home I inherited from Rachael. It's not the fastest, especially since it still has a spinning rust hard drive. If I'm going to experiment with Filecoin mining to any degree (and assuming that it is at all feasible from home), I'm going to need something more powerful. I priced out a System76. I priced out the smallest of their Thelio desktops: - AMD Ryzen w/ PCIe 4.0 +$199 - 4.5GHz AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen 5 3600XT (3.8 up to 4.5 GHz - 6 Cores - 12 Threads) + $299 - 64GB Dual Channel DDR4 @ 3200 MHz +$389…

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Sep 20201:00am

--- title: Sept 25th, 2020 date: 2020-09-25 category: Journal --- Self rendering Markdown I compiled all the Javascript Markdown scripts into a test deploy on Fission at https://petite-junior-angular-llama.fission.app. @-mentions as key network signifier Had a good call with Rabble talking about UCAN, Planetary, and the "discovery" problem in social networks. Specifically, mapping unique identifiers like a hash or a key to a username. And, that those usernames probably all look like @username (back to Social Mentions!). Twitter was the undisputed champion of @-usernames, but I'd say that…

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Sep 202010:16am

⭐️ naszam/wfil Wrapped Filecoin (WFIL), Team WrapFS at HackFS @ETHGlobal | APOLLO :rocket: @gitcoinco | ETHOnline @ETHGlobal

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Sep 20201:00am

- End of day notes and article links - Thanks @elty and @expede for deep meaningful conversations today. Pointers to some of the links and articles we talked about: - I'm still working on my Garden and the Gazebo post here talking about public / private notes. My Second Brain explanation is also WIP - I was importing old posts and looked at Tomi Ahonen: app stores are tiny compared to global telecom revenue. My takeaway from that was The future is Internet + identity + payment, and app stores will figure heavily in that future -- and now this is the direction that Fission is pointed: a web…

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Sep 20201:00pm

I went and grabbed the source for blog.bmannconsulting.com and put all the posts in the archive here as well. A number of them were bookmarks / links, which fit much better as notes. Many of the posts which I didn't bring in here are "social posts". Some of them could be good note candidates, but most of them are images and cross posts to Twitter and so on, which I'll see about importing into Micro.blog. It's going through a 2.0 update so I'll wait a while on that. TODO I think I'm going to turn off the existing blog, point the blog subdomain at Micro.blog instead of microblog, and then I'm…

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Sep 202010:00am

Jacob invited me to the Embassy Network Slack, which we’re going to use as our community gathering space for collaborators for Vancouver CLT for now.

There was a relevant post on a proforma for a house in Maine that can form part of the financial aspects of a CLT.

I shared CLT Vancouver, I need to see about going in and introducing myself, and finding out more about them.

This article on Co-buying property with friends was a good overview. Some parts are overly US-centric (Canada doesn’t have LLCs and some of the other structures mentioned), but the general process is great.

Sep 20201:08pm

⭐️ rsms/markdown-wasm Very fast Markdown parser and HTML generator implemented in WebAssembly, based on md4c

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Sep 202012:50pm

⭐️ remarkjs/remark markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective

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Sep 202012:08am

⭐️ ravionhq/superjson Safely serialize JavaScript expressions to a superset of JSON, which includes Dates, BigInts, and more.

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Sep 20206:42am

⭐️ tj/staticgen Static website generator that lets you use HTTP servers and frameworks you already know

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Sep 20207:00pm

Spoke to the STRIVE Business and Engineering Club tonight. They are purposefully a small group where members take an active role in deciding what to learn and who to hear from. It was a general "tell your entrepreneurship story" session over Zoom. Encouraged them to try things, start side businesses and projects. I was surprised that none of them had heard of Y Combinator. I told them all to get on Twitter. And I think somewhere in there I may have agreed to create a TikTok account. None of them had ever bought a domain name -- suggested that they have someone in the group research on how to…

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Sep 20201:00pm

Had a great intro call with Jacob Sayles. He shared a 10 bedroom house on Nicola Street that he’s been looking at, and in general is excited about exploring shared housing options in for Vancouver CLT.

Next step is to put out a call / invite people who might be interested in actually getting started with this.