Daily Journal 📓 July 2023

- Obsidian now has direct support for editing and adding what they call Properties to pages - This is all stored as YAML frontmatter, which further takes it down the path of fancy Markdown editor - - William Gibson on Twitter turning into X: - One thing about X, so-called, is that it’s become its own genuinely dystopian experience, and is guaranteed to become more so, which is in itself an interesting experience. For the privileged, at least (the privileged having been experiencing dystopia all along). - BlueSkyLink:: https://bsky.app/profile/greatdismal.bsky.social/post/3k3uqhr6v472n - Do I…

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- Had to do the usual Ruby yakshaving to get things working both locally and in Github Actions, which as you know, only happens after midnight - Installed rbenv and got things on 3.1.4 - This tip on reading the .ruby-version into your Gemfile was kind of neat Ruby - But what I actually had to do was update it in the Github Actions file - All publishing! New site is up https://bmannconsulting.com - Some things to know about Mastodon by Maria Antoniak Mastodon - This is a list of things I think are important to understand if you’re new to Mastodon. A lot of how Mastodon works isn’t immediately…

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- Erin Kissane Notes from a Mastodon migration Mastodon - Kissane migrated and found some rough edges - In practice, this means you’re trading being vulnerable to the whims of centralized corporate services and rich weirdos for…being vulnerable to the whims of whatever rando spins up a server, unlessmigration is speedy, comprehensive, and safe. That’s why it matters that migration is both clunky and surprisingly lossy. - I realized some of them too that I never considered — like you lose access to any Follower only posts, as well as DMs, because your new account ultimately does not have the…

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⭐️ gabek/fedidocs Documentation for the Fediverse

• Textile is a markup language

  • This is your semi-regular reminder that TextTile is a superior to MarkDown in every way: https://textile-lang.com

    • activitypublink:: https://pkm.social/@austingovella/110758903297595720
  • Superior except in the only way that matters: adoption!
  • I don’t see the tyranny of #Markdown going away any time soon
  • Basic formatting in plain text contexts (bold, italic, lists, etc) seems fine to use Markdown because of its wide familiarity

• tsnsrv by Andreas Fuchs sounds like exactly what I want for a #homelab with #Tailscale

  • The past few days, I wrote a thing that makes it easier to run personal & self-hosted services securely: https://boinkor.net/2023/07/tsnsrv-or-easily-accessing-services-on-your-tailscale-network/

    Pretty excited about this, as it eliminates about 80kB of generated nginx config and replaces it with about 20 short shell commandlines.

    • ActivityPubLink:: https://recurse.social/@antifuchs/110749421327715959

- Devon Zuegel The unconference toolbox unconference - ((64b6d9f7-31c8-4e5f-b2d1-cd069da2ea71)) - via walkah - OpenAI has new licensing terms for Llama 2 - The new Llama 2 model has an additional licensing requirement which prevents use if you have 700M MAUs, which is an oddly high number. OpenAI's ChatGPT hit 100 million MAUs in January, and has gone down since. It's essentially a "Amazon and Google don't use this k thx." - - twitterlink:: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1681337241740910594 - This was via Gordon Brander in the Subconscious/Discord - FB adding riders to “open” source…

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- Fast Character is a DnD 5e character generator that makes great looking PDF character sheets. I spent some time just hitting refresh getting some great characters. - Integrating Mastodon with Astro, Lindsay Wardell Mastodon - Uses the RSS feed for a Mastodon user profile to present content on your own website, although that makes it need SSR - I guess I'm installing Penpot, an open source Figma clone Boris Mann/Home Lab - Downloaded the docker compose and ran it with the one liner from the Penpot selfhosting Docker guide - Error on sign up because I'm accessing it over http…

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- Call with Rosano collapsed:: true - Rosano had sent me some questions - the bit i was trying to get at is the tendency to "structure/nodeify all the things" when using graph tools like logseq/roam—was wondering how much it pays off for the kind of notes you take - why it still seems to be hard on mobile - why publishing notes seems to keep turning into heavy js apps - not that those things are bad, but if the tools are meant to support your process then how might it do so sustainably/effortlessly without lapses. - References from our talk - Hyperdraft, Rosano's note taking app - My write up…

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- Left Rosano a rambling audio message about my practice of using this LogSeq space id:: 64b30d5f-ef6e-4e0f-9ae0-f1401e1db90e collapsed:: true - I just spent a bunch of time updating the colophon with details on how this site works and its history - I lapsed using it in part because I'm frustrated with how it publishes to BMC/Garden - How to publish LogSeq to GitHub Pages works - As does Publish LogSeq from Mobile - But, it's a single 40MB+ index.html file! - And, "article" publishing isn't really great. Ideally I could throw a tag or property onto a page and get a better article version. -…

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- Back to some Boris Mann/Home Lab work - Yesterday I plugged in the VisionTek/VT2900 KVM switch and got things working again - I'm actually back in "new Mac setup" as well, because I updated to MacOS/Ventura collapsed:: true - Installed the Tailscale plugin for Docker/Desktop - Install Homebrew - Oh yeah, don't even have shell aliases here 🤪 - time passes as I have fun updating a bunch of old LogSeq notes and pages - Nextcloud AIO install notes collapsed:: true - Searched a bunch of Tailscale stuff, which is mostly people saying "I'm not quite sure what I'm doing" - I searched for AIO in…

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⭐️ m1guelpf/threads-re Reverse-engineering Instagram’s Threads private APIs.

- My Mac Mini is now running MacOS/Ventura and I've officially given up on running Linux on it - Now to get it set up as Boris Mann/Home Lab - Need Docker/Desktop for a bunch of things - Once it was updated I sat on the couch with my laptop and did a bunch of things over screen sharing - I posted to CoSocial Mastodon and to Bluesky and got a bunch of responses with tips - mastodon:: https://cosocial.ca/@boris/110681788599605945 - I have a Mac Mini running MacOS Ventura (the last Intel version). My plan is to run it as the main server for a home lab now that I have a 100Mbps uplink. I think…

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⭐️ toeverything/AFFiNE There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.

⭐️ Dimillian/IceCubesApp A SwiftUI Mastodon client

⭐️ Infisical/infisical Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.

⭐️ bluesky-social/proposals Bluesky proposal discussions