2024-01-01

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 08:05

@taylorhadden @mjgardner @nyanotech AS A dev-type person, I WANT plain text notes and git-like versioning SO THAT I can understand how they work using my existing mental models and process them with my existing tools.

anyways

I could absolutely not explain the technical merits, but #SiYuanNote uses dejavu to handle synchronization and history. Lists “Git-like version control” as a feature. It’s neat. But it’s way easier for me to understand #Tangent + a Git repo that I manage myself because I already know Markdown and version control.

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 08:06

@taylorhadden @mjgardner @nyanotech well actually Fossil not Git but that’s because I’m always in pursuit of that endorphin rush of shiny new toy.

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 08:13

@taylorhadden @nyanotech But to @mjgardner ’s point Git is not great with binary files like images, so Git specifically is not a 100% solution for synchronization and versioning. It perfectly covers my notes, where I dump and ignore an illustrative pic, but way too cumbersome for the needs of a design shop always editing and tweaking pics.

But as a mental model it’s great.

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 08:30

@masukomi and calling it double-sided sticky tape is useful because it reminds you of an important handling caution: it’s sticky on both sides!

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 08:44

@0xdaeda1a @maddiefuzz Oh excellent! Enjoy!

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 08:51

I hear #MarkKistler and I start digging for my pencils. A reflex that hasn’t faded in a number of decades.

All Things Considered - The Mark Kistler Interview - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 09:22

Barry helping me tidy my desk.

#CatsOfMastodon

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 10:41

@cordelya A very deliberate choice as I’m sure you can imagine.

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 10:43

@bitprophet yeah that’s a win.

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 20:05

I was a little worried that dumping 800 markdown files in would do bad things to the #TangentNotes timeline view, but it’s good about only showing the files I actually looked at.

https://www.tangentnotes.com/

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 23:17

Ergh. Markdown remains my distant third choice in lightweight text formatting languages, after restructuredText and Asciidoctor, regardless of how much extension duct tape someone puts on it.

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 23:18

(Org is top if you’re in Emacs, but feels marginally better than XML everywhere else)

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 23:29

@leap123 @drwho the timeline is giving me a terrible headache in my left eye.

They’re trying to give old programmers a stroke, right? The ones who track release years?

hackers.town: 2024-01-01 Mon 23:50

@maphew I’ve been meaning to poke Moore at Leo.