Learning diary › Year 2025 › August, 2025 › 2025-08-24 [2025-08-24]

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- #sovereign
    - #kb
        - Writing Documentation and Prose in Markdown Using Helix

            > :reflow is Helix’s version of hard wrap and makes permanent changes to your formatting. The line length can be set with text-width in your config.

            > Type [ to automatically create a pair using automatic pair completion, then type the image link text inside it.

            > Press Tab to skip over the closing ] using the smart tab feature.

            > Marksman helps you quickly find and jump to specific headings or anchor tags in a document.

            > Open the Symbol Picker: Press Space s.

            > Vale stands out by enforcing custom style guides for technical writing alongside spell checking, though its grammar checking is less advanced. Its newly introduced language server is still basic.

        - Reading and writing notes with yazi and helix #helix
        - xwmx/nb: CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script. #tui
        - Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog
        - Raindrops | API Documentation
        - Switching to Obsidian
            - from Notion
        - Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal #design

            > A daily journal entry could be as simple as "[description of occurrence] + [its upshot]," adapted as necessary.

            > an interesting thing happens when you present a reader with only two sentences: Somehow, a narrative logic appears.

        - The append-and-review note (on HN)
            - Heynote
        - Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable #nb
        - Apache ECharts 6
            - ECharts is my go-to libary for visualization of data for better interpretability
        - Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
            - Obsidian Web Clipper
            - Home - Readeck
    - #kb/dataview
        - Codeblock Reference - Dataview
        - blacksmithgu/datacore: Work-in-progress successor to Dataview with a focus on UX and speed.
        - dsebastien/obsidian-dataview-serializer: Obsidian plugin that gives you the power of Dataview, but generates Markdown, making it compatible with Obsidian Publish, and making the links appear on the Graph.
        - Enveloppe
        - "Burning out" dataviews · Issue #42 · blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
        - Support for Dataview JS Snippets · Issue #102 · jackyzha0/quartz
        - 7sedam7/krafna: Obsidion dataview plugin-like tool for command line.
    - #selfhost/data
        - embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer: A PDF viewer that seamlessly integrates with any JavaScript project
        - What Exif Data Reveals About Your Site #privacy
        - houqp/kiorg: A hacker's file manager with VIM inspired keybind
        - Watchman - A file watching service | Watchman
        - pascalkuthe/filesentry: A reliable and performant cached directory tree in rust that can notify changes without dropping events
    - #selfhost/data #sec
        - hashcat - advanced password recovery
        - Brute-Force VeraCrypt Encryption – CodeOnBy
        - trufflesecurity/trufflehog: Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
    - #forge
        - GitHero
        - GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | Hacker News
            - On HN
            - Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy
    - #ci
        - bahdotsh/wrkflw
            - On lobste.rs
            - from https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/08/13/this-week-in-rust-612/
        - The best developer experience in CI/CD - RWX
        - Reverse Engineering the GHA Cache to Improve Performance (on HN)
            - Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast | Blacksmith
        - Using Radicle CI for Development (on HN) (on lobste.rs)
    - #openweb
        - Mac Open Web, by Brian Warren
        - Reeder
        - Kill the Newsletter!
    - pocketbase/pocketbase: Open Source realtime backend in 1 file #stack
    - #browser
        - Ok... even I think that's a bit of a stretch... : r/diabrowser
        - Text browsers · TecharoHQ anubis · Discussion #418
        - Arc still going good, btw windows! : r/ArcBrowser
        - Deta Surf
        - Orion is the first WebKit browser to feature an Arc-like navigation logic for vertical tabs : r/ArcBrowser
        - How are Dia and Arc team the same ? : r/diabrowser
- #oss
    - "This is a Low Maintenance Project"
    - Open Source is Not About You
    - My FOSS Story - Andrew Gallant's Blog
    - Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm (2024)
    - In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015) (on HN)
    - NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency (on HN) (on lobste.rs)
    - NPM 'accidentally' removes Stylus package, breaks builds and pipelines
    - Simon Willison | Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last #sec

        > the Google Security team have announced OSS Rebuild, their project to provide build attestations for open source packages released through the NPM, PyPI and Crates ecosystom

- #agent/idea
    - LLM Daydreaming
    - LLMs aren’t world models
    - openai burns the boats #biz
    - Why Does AI Feel So Different? - nilenso blog

        > - Thinking by questioning (Socrates)
        > - Thinking by logic (Aristotle)
        > - Thinking by observing: Empiricism / Scientific Method (Bacon)
        > - Thinking by heuristics and biases: System 1 and 2 (Kahneman)
        > - Thinking by… augmentation? (AI)