Activity Log
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 07:11
One good test on whether a given wiki / #PKM tool is serious or not: does it directly support structured data like dates? No? Just arbitrary frontmatter / properties? Actually that’s better than some cases.
because
It does? Okay, does it let you enter arbitrary dates?
No? It makes you navigate a calendar? Okay, well at least does it let you bounce through year and year spans?
Or does it make you click one month at a time until you hit your target target date?
Brought to you by clicking one month at a time to September 2018 in AppFlowy for a (failed) experiment in usability for historical data.
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 08:28
Caffeine kicking in, got another #PKM study thought I feel compelled to share.
I usually use an outliner (#Logseq specifically) for knowledge capture because it’s easy to indicate something’s a tangent or subtopic, zoom in on important bits, and hide away bits that aren’t important right now.
But when everything’s new and I don’t know what’s important, even an outliner is too much structure. I need to dump terms and links, keep them all in view, and sort them out as I go. That’s where I go for the whiteboarding tool (#KinopioClub or #Heptabase specifically).
oh i already finished this coffee time for more
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 11:55
Me, Monday: “I’ll just use the company’s documentation tools to keep my work notes.”
Me, Wednesday: “I may hurt somebody if I keep trying to do my work journal in Notion; time for local Logseq.”
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 15:24
@IamMrsGeek yeah we need to get you on a better path. These people suck.
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 15:27
@rgegriff I was thinking the same, somewhere in the last five or ten years I’d see a prediction for the next hour in my weather app and I started believing them!
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 16:58
The only concerning work issue I’ve come across this week is that I need to figure out something with headsets. The bum right ear still responds to air and sound pressure regardless of whether I hear anything through it.
After a day of meetings and training videos, it is — uncomfortable.
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 17:51
The “Let’s Build a Dungeon” game will be all about running a game studio.
in case you need a strong indicator about morale in the game dev industry
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2365790/Lets_Build_a_Dungeon/
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 21:17
@njoseph good luck with your search, and may it take less time than mine!
And Raku’s a fun language. It’s no resume-builder but gosh it gives you insight into so many ways to solve a problem.
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 21:32
@zkat not unless someone specifically mentions it, which is funny because I think about Minix at least a few times a year.
hackers.town: 2024-08-14 Wed 21:58
My Go-based export code and Hugo make quick enough work of my pages that it’s less effort to review progress on pulling the blog posts into Logseq by re-exporting than by going to the post/2018 namespace in-app.
(something like 3.3s total; I do have some proof-of concept code that might knock a full second off that but this works and it works now)
