• A Brief Thought On A Recent Bout of Resistance

• I wrote about how I decide what literary fiction not to read.

• Weeknote, Sunday 21st April 2024

• @robb @lucapette The secret to reading a Medium post is the Archive Page browser plugin. I just click a button in my browser toolbar and the paywall vanishes. …

• An excellent piece by @doctorow. Not just clear, accurate economics, it also gets at the heart of why I always wanted to be a rentier: By contrast, rentiers are insulated from competition. Source: Pluralistic …

• Statuslog Micro.blog Plugin

• Think often and always of what choices current you can make to have future you be thankful to past you.

• Gregory Alvarez said a lot in Living Like It’s 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone, and I’m not going to quote anything in particular right now. The whole thing is worth a read. (h/t @jamesvandyne) www.alvarez.io …

• This is a favourite page. For Day 13 of the April Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is page, suggested by Rob, aka @robj. #mbapr   challenges.micro.blog

• @mpmilestogo I do all of my writing as Markdown (like you) in #Obsidian, but I have a Keyboard Maestro script to copy it into Day One because I still enjoy the automation Day One offers in importing social media posts, weather, media …

• I'm a big fan of weeknotes by @latte, @tracy and others. This resource by @gilest might help me develop the habit. 🔗 Doing weeknotes: https://doingweeknotes.com Found via link a post by @robb .

• Completed a coffee run* this morning! *doing Wordle, Mini Crossword, and Connections in the time it takes the coffee to brew

• 🆕📝 Digital Toolmaker In which I wax poetic about what's probably my favorite app of all time.

• "Some people like physical puzzles best, but I found my preferred brain stimulation in being a digital toolmaker." #shortcuts 🚀 Digital Toolmaker - HeyDingus https://heydingus.net/blog/2024/4/digital-toolmaker

• “The most beautiful word in the world is ‘No’ — Chocolate and Vodka” This whole post is very relatable. Esp. the bit about feeling like a financial failure 😅

• April is just around the corner and we’re doing another Micro.blog photo challenge! There will be daily prompts to help inspire posting a photo each day, and a collection so you can see everything together. Check out the details here. …

• With having an invite only system, and making this not a free service, I hope that Scribbles will host good quality content across the internet, whatever small fraction that might be. 🚀 Thoughts on invite only | Scribbles Update Blog …

• ☺️ I love how exhausting a full day is! Sleep at the end of such a day is a sweet reward.

• I don’t know what the secret is to living a good life, but I think it has something to do with going to bed bone tired every night and getting enough sleep to do it again the next day.

• In a cheerful and reflective and oddly emotionally-safe-within-myself place today and I’ve been pondering social anxiety and I realized it’s basically a chord. Like in music! It isn’t “real” in a sense. It’s actually a label for several …

• “We weren’t designed to have the output of all of human history at our fingertips, nor to be contactable at all times — but that is the situation we now find ourselves in, and it’s both a great privilege and a damned curse.” …

• I love reading the latest P&B with Sara Joy. Her blogging adventures are filled with relatable stories and I really enjoy her recommendations of other blogs and sites. The whole series of People and Blogs is worth a read by the way! …

• “The most important goal in designing software is understandability”

• “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” A warning from Mary Oliver.

• After @bapsi mentioned Jillian Hess' “Re-Noted: 6 Ways to Use a Diary”, I got completely stuck on Lynda Barry’s basic quick diary format. I grabbed my copy of “Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor” and I’m adapting this format in my …

• Spun out the sidebar I added to my site into a standalone Micro.blog Plugin, called Sidebar For Tiny Theme. This can be used to add a sidebar with your blog-roll recommendations to any blog that’s using Tiny Theme. Click through to see …

• Got a little Saturday morning, slightly bleary blogging tradition developing here. Football this afternoon too. These rituals make us.

• Being a Bilingual Is Like Having a Double Identity

• Five for Friday

• Next steps in social blogrolls

• I’m going to write a blog post using Nebo, handwriting it with an Apple pencil. I’m actually writing this down manually, and I’m quite astonished at how well Nebo converts it all. I read Annie Mueller’s post “It ’s just a blog” and I wanted …

• My Content Diet Overhaul

• “Apple Annie’s Weblog · Creating 3x5.pics”

• This book from 1908 by J. Kaiser seems like a fantastic instruction manual for how to use Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, Evernote, OneNote, and most other note taking tools for just about any application.

• Micro.blog and The Small Unknown Complex Life

• I’ve seen firsthand how well-crafted features can be utter game-changers. Clarity is essential to both captivate your users and to foster seanless collaboration across your partner teams. If people are forced to guess what you mean, you’re …

• “Subvert the status quo. Own a website. Make and share links.” blog.jim-nielsen.com

• An ode to Things

• Mondays, for me, are a time of preparation. I am sure to exercise, read, write, and now that spring has apparently sprung play a little golf. Each Monday I want to prepare for my week as intentionally as I can through things that bring me …

• To feel as though, even if just for a moment, that I am operating and living in harmony. I am present, I am using the talents, the skills, the gifts that I have been given. I am where I need to be, doing what I need to be doing. At this …

• Shitegeist (n) - The popular but worthless spirit or mood of the times.

• “No more forever projects — Diana Kimball Berlin” This is an aspect of creating book-like objects that I happen to really enjoy.

• Don’t judge people for sharing their negative thoughts. It can be cathartic and help others feel less alone. Embrace the whole person or move on. Read more: Embracing Negative Blogging

• Digital garden Following a “digital garden” concept, I built a home page with buttons that in my mind symbolize patches in a garden. Each patch will have its contents, be it a static page, a blog, a collection or category of posts, whatever …

• If the games you’re playing are too normal, let the Weird Fucking Games help.

• Episode 514: Choices | PM Talks S1:E2 – Productivityist Our discussion was wide-ranging, but one topic stood out prominently: Choices. This theme resonated throughout our conversation, highlighting the significant impact of intentional …

• 🚀 Micro.blog Add or remove applications that have access to your Micro.blog account. These tokens can be used like application-specific passwords. For apps that prompt for a username and password, use your Micro.blog username and one of …

• Constraints twocommoncents.club

• some of y’all think the stuff you see on the news won’t ever affect y’all. but that’s bullshit. I remember 4 of my cousins getting hooked on crack cocaine in the ghetto of St Louis, my hometown in the 80’s. I remember seeing a very affluent …

• I’m in love with the Image Modification plugin for #Raycast. Apply filters and transformations to various image formats and convert between them. Create new images by specifying their dimensions, colors, and patterns. Operate on selected …

• I’m planning on going to Homebrew Website Club Europe Meetup later today. I really like the people there and it’s a nice little lunch meetup for me.

• Articles: Mon 26.Feb.2024

• Cooking Indonesian again tonight!

• It's Time To Stop Being A Hoarder

• I compiled all my #Obsidian articles onto one page. There’s info on backing up your vault, complementary software, emailing to Obsidian, using Templater, syncing Omnivore, metadata management, Dataview and vault composition. …

• @manton Tools such as Readwise Reader can save entire articles. For example, articles behind a paywall for which I have access. It would be great if Micro.blog could do the same. Something to do with the addon for the browsers. Is that …

• 📝 I wanted to respond to Lars-Christian’s post asking what the point of daily writing is. Here’s what I said: I wanted to let you know you’re not alone. With big creative projects, so many of us hit a point where it stops feeling …

• Doing the the thing v. talking about doing the thing v. talking about the technique for doing the thing

• You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You?

• 🔗 Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules — mashable.com // Chris Taylor But hey, if it’s all pretty much the same stuff — and it is — why stop at distilling it into a single book? Why not condense the repeated lessons of …

• 🔗 Multi-layered calendars — julian.digital // Julian Lehr Calendars, on the other hand, cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward …

• If you cook much, be sure to read Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal! Not exactly a cookbook, more an exquisitely written presentation of how to approach cooking.

• Went to the Miyagi Zao fox village and saw some foxes! 🦊 Beautiful to look at but you can imagine how the place smelled! Up in the mountains, covered in snow. A lovely experience but now it’s time to warm up in an onsen. ♨️ …

• I’m checking out a “record a voicemail so I can respond to it on my podcast” app—send me your thoughts or AMA.

• 🤔 Brainstorming ideas for blog posts over coffee on a Saturday morning is one of my favorite times each week.

• There's a place for rote memorization woman-of-letters.com

• You gotta check out this incredible song Mahal by Glass Beams. The roots of the band members lies in some (all?) of the members being second generation Indian immigrants to Australia, and you can tell from the sound. Absolutely amazing …

• 🔗 The internet used to be ✨fun✨ Lot of interesting posts here about the personal web, both current and old school. I’ve been ducking in and out of this for a week now. Via the HV Discord. projects.kwon.nyc

• 🧘 I’ve started my yoga (with Adriene) practice again and I’m looking to add some daily meditations to my life. It’s overwhelming. Do you have a meditation practice you followow? When I turn to yoga, it’s with Adriene. When I meditate, who …

• “How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh” Sites that do genuine research and actual testing are getting crushed between big media sites that get a pass from Google for spammy rewrites and incoherent generated crap …

• Hey Micro Blog community, which theme handles video the best?

• Posted another short video on YouTube about notes, this time with Micro.blog for macOS. The app has a slightly different UI and auto-saves notes, encrypted back to the server.

• A reminder: we look at whether images include an accessible text description (aka ALT “tag”) when choosing posts for the Discover timeline. After adding a photo, click or tap the thumbnail to add the description. Alt-texts: The Ultimate …

• 🔗 Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law. … because of course they are.

• What would it mean for a world to be at peace? Would this automatically mean everybody is happy? How would you handle the impending stagnation? Does world peace imply that humans can’t develop any further? My thinking here is that when …

• Made a delicious lentil curry off my chef friend Kayla’s recipe.

• @jabel this is really useful (granting that every framework is an imperfect capture)

• I had been planning to write about my impressions and such from listening to Four Thousand Weeks but I’m going to buy the book so that I can go through and make notes. While there was nothing that stood out as deeply profound, it was full …

• Links #99

• I just learned far more about emoji and unicode than I thought I ever would need to, but I managed to update my emoji detection library to support Emoji 15.1! The library just passed 1 million downloads too 😮

• 🔗 Articles: Sun 18.Feb.2024

• James Shelley asks, What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore? To put any thoughtful labour into crafting words online today is to watch them get sucked up, repurposed, and often monetized by someone else. It feels a bit like a …

• 🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#132] Don't skip the 'Take a Chance' link this week. Well, don't skip any of them, but especially not the TAC. 🤭

• My Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels

• Lookgreatnaked.com - - Fitness Articles: Exercise, Nutrition, Supplementation By Brad Schoenfeld lookgreatnaked.com

• Finished reading: The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason 📚

• @jabel A year or two ago I came across an article or podcast that was exploring the move to work from home that increased during Covid and something that was discussed was the historical newness of people "going off to work". It began with …

• When @matt added Microhooks to his popular Tiny Theme, I decided to give it a try. My current theme, which is based on the Alpine theme, is a messy mesh of CSS fragments and several modified HTML files. I thought I could use a fresh start …

• The Emergent Task Planner I came across this while looking for a system that helps bring order for people with chaotic days to manage. This is available in both analog and digital form! ✏️

• Blogging Struggles I love the design process but never reach a point where I’m happy. I continually change themes, plug-ins, and services. Never satisfied, I build things up only to tear them down. 📝 notes. …

• @pratik Yes!! Coupled with the really nice write.omg.lol you get the “private” notes, with the long URL. I love paste.lol, and the /markup at the end is the cherry on top.

• Atomic notes - all in one place

• This is the kind of book that connects the dots on some big ideas, primarily how traditional gender roles intersect with capitalism to produce the economy, and in turn, how these systems, tensions and behaviors then reproduce inequality. …

• Digital Declutter 2024

• @hutaffe i really want to dive in with Obsidian, but need to learn more about what it does and how to best use it. Any tips would be appreciated!

• Learning German, the way I have approached building up my vocabulary for the past 1.5 years has been: read an article or watch a youtube video, for every word I don’t know, check how frequent it is wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de if frequent …

• Self-censorship and avoiding growth cygnoir.net

• Loosing the ability to read and think deeply

• Why Having Your Own Home on the Internet is Important davidenzel.com

• Read in 2024: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 📚★★★★★