2025-03-12 : Random Geekery

Executable Obsidian

I’m thinking about ways to get Obsidian (or any PKM really) closer to org-babel. Evaluate code, show tables and plots, stuff like that.

Quarto

https://github.com/danieltomasz/qmd-as-md-obsidian

Freeform

Freeform extension for Obsidian inspired by Observable Framework.

plugin hasn’t been updated since June 2024
JavaScript-only

https://github.com/tmcw/obsidian-freeform

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 08:49

I am very much enjoying the summary of legal proceedings over plugging a server into the OPM email system and sending a “send a status summary or you’re fired” email to everyone with a .gov address.

Kel McClanahan is colorful and so is his shirt. I might like him. Need more info.

Why the Five Things Email Failed - YouTube

beardy balding lawyer dude with pastel plaid shirt on under his jacket and tie, sitting before a cozy office scene explaining “However, that is not how things work in cybersecurity.”

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 08:55

See above for context if that’s the sort of thing you need in your life.

Beardy lawyer dude with colorful shirt and tie, hands outstretched jazz hands style: “Therefore, ta-da, I have one weird trick.”

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 09:44

Chatting with mom.

I think I missed the bullseye on my definition of statistics, but eh it’s not a quiz or anything.

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 10:12

Eyes see: “Today is the anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee.”

Brain adds: “This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

But I am more or less happy to be here. The Web is still cool, regardless of those silos we don’t talk about.

#QT @w3c

https://w3c.social/@w3c/114150554471950167

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 10:35

@thegibson not again.

Well, time to go the closet and pick my weapons.

https://seirdy.one/meta/badges/

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 10:43

Showing my mom the Norvig & Russell Artificial Intelligence diagram so she can see how little of AI is covered by The Autocomplete Engine What Feeds On IP

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 10:58

Still got Douglas Adams on the brain, because this popped into my head just now.

“Gordon’s great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the facts. The program’s task, which it was able to accomplish with consummate ease, was simply to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion.”

Tempted to start calling all the LLMs “Anthem.”

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 15:51

Everyone is very excited about the arrival of the desert bunnies.

Tucson

Two black chihuahua mix dogs and a cat stare attentively at a brown wild rabbit nibbling bush leaves on the other side of the window

Bouncy Dog, Jumpy Dog, Jack

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 16:34

Mixing Logseq, Python, Quarto, Polars, KuzuDB, Hugo, and whatever else sounds good.

If we all survive to the end – assuming I figure out what “the end” would be – it’ll probably be a blog post.

section of a Web page showing Python code, Cypher graph database queries being executed by Python code, and tables with DataFrame representations of query results.

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 19:25

Look all I’m saying is you’re gonna have to get things done yourself. You want a B&D genderqueer dystopian wasteland you’ll have to slap on the leather chaps yourself.

Otherwise it’s the Torment Nexus, which like most fascistic wet dreams, has turned out to be embarrassingly banal.

no i don’t really know where that came from

sometimes i just start typing to find out what i come up with

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 23:08

Well heck I found a note with too long of a path. I keep accidentally doing useful things.

Better go to bed.

cypher query listing notes with depth of parent namespaces, and one of the entries has four levels of parent

hackers.town: 2025-03-12 Wed 23:11

(well done, Apple. I now distrust your update cycle enough to disable automatic updates. Need to be able to watch the process, not wake up to broken preferences or a bricked system.)