As detailed in an earlier post today, the wind had been sucked out of our sails a bit regarding publishing things online. In that way, this Week 6 Link Drop will make up for a bit of lost time.

The Beautiful Web

A new web browser has popped up on my radar called Sidekick. It aims to help us refocus on the content of the web and not be sidetracked by the pitfalls of the modern day web.
A fun website called: YouReadyGrandma.
If you read Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman be sure to check out this website: Leebyron.com/4000/. It’s a tribute to the book and once you enter your birthday you’re reminded about how much time you have wasted!
Forget the Twitter drama – check out this story from the other side of the fence, as seen through the eyes of a developer who has put their heart and soul into a third-party Twitter app for sixteen years. This is a whole different level of fuckery.
EyeLeo is an outstanding app for Windows users that sends you reminders to take a break from your screen – perfect for office peeps who want to save their eyes from strain. As tech advances, it’s so important to look after our health and EyeLeo is a great tool to help. It’s like a guardian angel for your eyesight, plus it’s easy to set up and use, so you can get started without any hassle.
How to Make a Website
Lazy is a Mac application that enables users to manage their connected devices, such as Sonos, HomeKit, and smart lights.
for Linux: Etcher: Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
I installed Google Chrome for the first time in a hot minute. After doing so I noticed there were a couple new quick searches baked into the “Manage Search Engines” page:
- @tabs – Searches open tabs
- @bookmarks – Searches your bookmarks
- @history – Searches your history.
- I changed these values to t, b, and h respectively.
While poking around under the hood of Chrome, I noticed the “Journeys” tabs under history. Immaculate, that feature. It seems to track the “journey” you follow when you search for things and click through deeper into web-links. I would like Brave to adopt this feature. Web history is something people get super weird about, but it’s actually one of my biggest resources of information in the event I let data slip thru the Obsidian cracks.
I used the data off this page to recolor the Obsidian logo I have on my “No File Open” window. Gist for that code is located here. I stole it shamelessly from a theme recently mentioned in the Obsidian Iceburg in one of the last editions under the Roundup banner.
Fell in love with ActivityWatch and was using it for a couple of weeks, but it doesn’t seem to play well with my Linux machine as it should. Great idea tho! The Obsidian plugin worked like a charm.
FoodTimeline.org is fascinating.
LogSeq adding tldraw to their application has me tinkering with it (tldraw) quite a bit.
- In so doing, I realized that LogSeq is hands-down the best application for taking notes on YouTube videos. The command that is baked in to LogSeq without the requirement of third-party plugins {{youtube-timestamp 123}} changes everything for me. It’s the small things that change everything.
- Contribute to Logseq
Been visiting Penzeys quite a bit lately.
- Pasta Sprinkle
- Onions Toasted Granulated 👀
- Their recipe for Sloppy Joe’s definitely gives those loyal to the Manwich Camp a run for their High Fructose Corn Syrup money. 🏃
New website for weather: Windy.com
for Linux: Tangram is a “web browser” that strictly runs Web Apps. You enter a URL and it saves that website as sort of a Progressive Web Application. Your sidebar comprises the Web Apps you have saved.
Learned about trading stamps at the beginning of February, which was the precursor to loyalty programs and loyalty cards that stores nowadays still sometimes use. They started in 1891 at Schuster’s Department Store, Wisconsin. Originally, they were given to cash paying customers as a “thanks” for not putting it on credit.
Habitify has dramatically improved for macOS.
Mural taking shots at Miro. They have a big ace in the hole because NounProject is baked into it. 😍
Tidy – it’s a cool open source bookmarklet that uses Mozilla’s Readability library to make web pages look neat and easy to read.

Music

We’ve been graced with two new Raimu tracks! Sugar & Dirt and Hold Tight, We’re Leaving.
I don’t like a lot of “modern classical” music even tho that is a terrible term to be using to describe the music. Max Richer seems to be one of the rare exceptions.

Digital Blasphemy Releases

Tropical Moon of Ianeira – I had always used Lightwave3D to create the planets but this time I am learning to use a new software package, Cinema4D.
Ianeira – Ryan’s first attempt at a ringed gas-giant planet created using Cinema4D and Redshift.
Lacuna – been a while since we got a nice abstract render from Ryan. I’ve really neglected my abstracts gallery for the past couple of years and I hope to make up for that this year. Be sure to check out the picklejar variation!

The Obsidianverse

Kepano, a staple of the Obsidian community and of the legendary Minimal fame is Obsidian’s new CEO. Tempted to commission my Sister to make him his avatar in stained glass but I would feel so weird asking him for a place to send it.
This plugin called Weekly Review, once invoked opens every note you created in the last seven days. The amount of days is configurable in the settings.
This plugin will publish your current note to Telegram’s Telegraph platform.
While using canvas, we often make connections and then move objects around, resulting in tangled and disorganized connection lines. We often overlook this visual mess and accept it. But now, with the new Optimize Canvas Connections plugin, you can easily fix all these connections with a single command. Hallelujah!
Double Colon Conceal replaces double colons with a single colon in reading view, providing a more natural experience.

YouTube

Brandon Boswell’s channel is good shit, check him out. On this channel we focus on productivity, focus and digital workflow. A personal passion of mine and a sub-theme of the channel is how to navigate your Mac completely with your keyboard.

Videos

Dave Ramsay’s documentary about the rising cost of college tuition was very eye opening and has my perspective of the future altered a bit. I must revisit this in the future, as there was so much to take in. A must watch for anyone with children who has yet to attend college.
Look what western culture has done to music in Africa.

In the Beginning There Was Man and For a Time It Was Good

The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning

co:here: Making NLP part of every developer’s toolkit. Harness the power of language understanding. Join the developers and businesses who are using Cohere to generate, categorize and organize text at a scale that was previously unimaginable.
AI21labs: When Machines Become Thought Partners. AI has a way to go before it matches human intelligence. We aim to get it a little bit closer. Sign up today and never have to put any effort into your writing again!

On that note, lets get back our matters at hand. ■

Weeknotes – Week 6