Shared notes. Not too much. Mostly links.

I want to call them “weekly notes.” I lack confidence in my time awareness, so let’s go with “snapshot.” But hey. I fill up my notes every day. Why not share some of the interesting items here from time to time?

Bookmarks

All Things Considered - The Mark Kistler Interview - YouTube

Been a fan of Mark Kistler since before I was a fan of computers. I’ve shared one Kistler-inspired work — Kistler Tree — and have multiple sketchbooks full of similar. Of course I listened to this interview.

Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager. - Build Excellent Websites

Exposed to Build Excellent Websites thanks to the Eleventy Excellent starter. Good guidelines and good tools for Web design.

Free Pascal - Advanced open source Pascal compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal

Niklaus Wirth died this week. The Pascal programming language was only one of his contributions, but it’s the one I kind of know.

Beginner’s Guide to ComfyUI - Stable Diffusion Art

A workflow-based GUI for Stable Diffusion as I learn the different technologies under the buzzword blanket of *Artificial Intelligence*.

ebullient/markdown-it-obsidian-callouts: Markdown extensions for obsidian

Obsidian has some fairly specific syntax for callouts. This extension could help with that for publishing a second brain with Eleventy. Now I just need to switch to Eleventy. And stick with Obsidian.

Hackers.town Noto Peninsula Earthquake Relief Custom Ink Fundraising

Cool T-shirts for good causes, by the good folks at Hackers.town, my preferred Fediverse instance.

2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

Because honestly what other word could describe 2023 so well? Cory Doctorow came up with it, and used it to great effect when describing TikTok and others.

Added to vault 2024-01-15. Updated on 2024-01-26