Chris Aldrich

Jun 10, 2022, 1:41 PM -04:00

Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten

Given many of the misconceptions I see online of how to keep a zettelkasten, particularly given the focus on the arcane addressing system used by Niklas Luhmann, perhaps it may be helpful to dramatically reframe the question of how to keep a zettelkasten? One page blog posts from people who’ve only recently seen the idea and are synopsizing it without a year or more practice themselves are highly confusing at best. Can I write something we don’t see enough of in spaces relating to zettelkaste...

Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq

Updated: 2022-08-03 I love org-roam. It lets me take notes in a way that matches how I think. It makes it easy to recall what I have learned and find connections between ideas. But there has always been one big problem with org-roam: it ties me to the desktop. When I am on the go and all I have is my phone, I don’t have access to my notes. There are some stop gap solutions to try and fix this.

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Donate to the Afghanistan Emergency Relief Efforts

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Medium

The Zettelkasten Method: Examples to help you get started.

Writing your first Zettelkasten note is intimidating. Most of the resources on Zettelkasten are principle-based, with few examples of how…

GitHub

GitHub - james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial: A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode

A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode - james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial

Max Böck

Jul 6, 2017, 8:00 PM -04:00

How to turn your website into a PWA

A Progressive Web App, or PWA, uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. Any website can be a PWA - here's how to do it.The "add to homescreen" prompt in a PWATurning a basic website into a PWA is not that hard and has a lot of real benefits, so I want to take a look at the three main steps necessary to achieve just that.But first, let me address some common misconceptions:1) Your thing does not have to be an “Application” to be a PWA.A Progressive Web App can easil...

Max Böck

Aug 10, 2019, 8:00 PM -04:00

IndieWeb Link Sharing

A pain point of the IndieWeb is that it's sometimes not as convenient to share content as it is on the common social media platforms.Posting a new short “note” on my site currently requires me to commit a new markdown file to the repository on Github. That’s doable (for a developer), but not really convenient, especially when you’re on the go and just want to share a quick link. Twitter and other social media platforms literally make this as easy as clicking a single button, which makes it te...

Smashing Magazine

A Simple Web Developer’s Color Guide — Smashing Magazine

Laura Elizabeth never found color theory useful when trying to use color in her projects. Somewhat ironically, she’s been finding that the better she got at choosing and using color, the better she became in the theory behind it. In this article, Laura shares a simple color workflow that you can use in your next web project.

Smashing Magazine

Color Theory for Designers, Part 3: How To Create Your Own Color Schemes — Smashing Magazine

Let’s dive into color theory. We’ll explore how to create effective color palettes for your designs, from scratch.

Smashing Magazine

Color Theory For Designers, Part 2: Understanding Concepts And Color Terminology — Smashing Magazine

To use color effectively, you’ll need to understand color concepts and terminology, such as chroma, saturation, value, tones and shades.

Smashing Magazine

Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color — Smashing Magazine

Let’s dive into color theory. We’ll discuss the meanings behind the different color families, and give some examples of how these colors are used.

It's not still the early days

When I speak about the inefficiency of popular blockchains, or mention that we seem to be hurtling towards a 'web3' so centralized it challenges big tech's firm grasp on today's web, or point out that somehow no one has managed to find a positive use for blockchains that wouldn't be better served by one of the many more performant databases we have available to us these days, I often hear 'it's the early days'.

CSS-Tricks

Considerations for Using Markdown Writing Apps on Static Sites | CSS-Tricks

If you run or have recently switched to a static site generator, you might find yourself writing a lot of Markdown. And the more you write it, the more you

Aaron Parecki

Apr 14, 2021, 12:15 AM -04:00

How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth

This post will show you step by step how you can let people log in to your website with their own IndieAuth website so you don't need to worry about user accounts or passwords. What is IndieAuth? IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables an individual website like someone's WordPress, Gitea or OwnCast instance to become its own identity provider. This means you can use your own website to sign in to other websites that support IndieAuth. You can learn more about the differences be...

Slack Engineering

Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps - Slack Engineering

While it’s no secret that the cross-platform Slack Desktop app is built on Electron, it might be slightly less well known that it’s a hybrid app built around our web app (slack.com). This is one of Electron’s most compelling draws — not only can you build a cross-platform desktop app from scratch with the web technologies you …

CSS-Tricks

Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase | CSS-Tricks

In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 64 events, most recently in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Buy me a coffee Follow @hdv on Mastodon

Jan 3, 2021, 7:00 PM -05:00

How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy

In the last week of 2020, I decided to export my Goodreads data to display it on my personal website. This post is about what I did and how. Screenshot Why export? First, I quite like Goodreads. It lets me see the reads of friends and acquaintances. It lets me share my own. This is all splendid, but it is still somebody else’s site. Somebody with very different life goals from my own, in fact. For more control on what I display and how, I decided to create a new section of this website ded...

Evan Stoner

Dec 27, 2020, 7:00 PM -05:00

IndieWeb, Revisited

A couple of years ago I started building an IndieWeb website. Then I got painfully busy at work, stopped improving it, and basically ran out of free time to even post to it. Fast forward a couple of years, and I've got a new job that's somewhat more manageable, and during the holiday break I'm trying to get this thing going again. I've made a couple of changes: For the static site generator itself, I replaced Gatsby with Eleventy and am happier with it; it's basically just a pile of simple t...

Jan-Lukas Else

Nov 28, 2020, 9:01 AM -05:00

“Stupid light software”

Martin Tournoij wrote about “stupid light software”. When you try to be a bit too minimalistic with your software, it’s probably “stupid light software”.There’s also the concept of stupid light: when you save weight to the point of stupidity. You won’t be comfortable, you’ll miss stuff you need, your equipment will be too fragile and break.With software I most often go from “heavy” to “light”. First, I try to realize the features I need and then I try to optimize where possible. First, I will...

The Organic Web

If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor for our era does not come from agriculture—it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we “grow” our lives—we believe that we “make” them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love. — Parker Palmer, “Let Your Life Speak” (97) You know what else we...

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Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app that adapts to the way you think.

Jan-Lukas Else

Oct 17, 2020, 4:12 PM -04:00

Search personal websites

Michael Lewis had a pretty great idea, he created a search engine for personal websites. I really like that idea because I like exploring personal websites and especially reading personal blogs. It’s always interesting to read about people’s thoughts, hobbies, lives, experiences and point of views.There are already a couple of resources to discover personal sites (like this, this or this), but having more is even better! Michael Lewis also wrote some background posts about creating this proje...