2025-02-23 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 07:56

Obsidian Shiki Plugin significantly improves code highlighting in Obsidian. It uses Expressive Code, so it takes EC options. Nice.

https://github.com/mProjectsCode/obsidian-shiki-plugin

YAML code snippet showing view when editing parameters such as title and indicators for highlighted, deleted, and inserted lines. The YAML itself is not highlighted in this view

The same code snippet in regular Obsidian editing mode, with titled code block and richly highlighted syntax, showing lines highlighted, marked as deleted, or marked out as inserted as specified in the code block parameters

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 08:43

Meanwhile in Doom-flavored Emacs Org-roam

add +dragndrop to (org) expression in init.el

brew install pngpaste

copy image

SPC m a p in Org buffer

Org note with Obsidian screenshot and YAML code block for comparing to Org mode, along with steps followed to enable image pasting

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 11:35

If the day starts with Mrs Geek serenading my butt, I know it’s gonna be a pretty darn good day.

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 13:01

I don’t track GNU projects too close but oh hey use-package is bundled with #Emacs as of 29.1? That is convenient!

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/use-package.html

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 17:00

Okay, added a binding for denote-rename-file-using-front-matter and honestly that’s pretty darn neat.

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 17:45

Oh, yeah the GitHub Copilot experiment.

Made sure to cancel that subscription before it came due.

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 17:53

@thegibson My general philosophy on “less cloud”:

If it can run with SQLite – or other embedded database like DuckDB or Kuzu– maybe it should.

Course, not a lot of fish taking that bait in These Web Scale Times. At least, not for the stuff they’ve decided needs cloud.

An infrastructure question more grassroots tech folks need to ask themselves: how many concurrent connections do you actually want?

They might be surprised how small the number is if they give it some thought.

Trailing thought: a quarter century of ever-increasing VC open source patronage has crippled FOSS. The only imaginable options are borrowing billion dollar infrastructure tools or that guy who eats his toenails.

(ok not really but ye gods that’s how it feels)

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 18:31

Somebody unhappy about something going on in OSI election and tagged every likely OSI member on LinkedIn in a post about said grievance. Easily a hundred names.

Somebody missed a filing date. I dunno. I get cranky enough about legit tags, let alone long lists of names.

I reported the post as spam.

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 18:47

My singing charms her – and has the neighbors checking for coyotes.

hackers.town: 2025-02-23 Sun 19:29

Adding some stuff to my Logseq note processor.

PKM tools I have focused on today:

Emacs + Doom + org-roam

Obsidian

Emacs + denote

Logseq

And a half-dozen others while I tried little things.

#ADHD