Coffee Buying and Referral Linking is my take on how we aim to get a little back from our IndyWeb endeavors. There are lots of ways to support each other and if you want an occasional cup of Joe, I’m cool with that. I’d rather you check out the services I like if you want to do me a solid.
Today for #Junited2024 I want to shout out Marco @esamecar and his µ.blog. He writes great week notes, chock full of juicy software tips. I always look forward to them.
Today on AppAddict - If you have an older Mac and you’d like to run a new and unsupported version of macOS on it, you are in luck. Open Core Legacy Patcher will do the trick. Just don’t try it with the Sequoia beta. It is not patched for that yet.
From my 100 Strangers project - John, in the black fedora, looking every inch the jazz musician he is in real life. I caught him having a smoke and a coffee break from his usual busking downtown. I have had this photo hanging in my living room for a decade. I love it.
I don’t watch YouTube ads but the kids on Reddit do and I’ve found they have a belief that advertising there makes a company unethical. I use NordVPN, which evidently runs a lot of YouTube ads and the kids HATE it with a rabid passion. They go nuts if I bring it up. LOL Capitalism Sucks
My #Obsidian Wish List
As an enthusiastic Obsidian user, I’m happy with the way it works and grateful to the developers for the hard work they have put into the app. I offer the following wish list in good faith and not as a bitch fest or criticism. Some of my wishes may have security complications of which I am not aware and others may be in the works. Some of these are partially achievable with plugins, I am aware but my desire is for more robust native functionality.
1. A way to send HTML emails to Obsidian
I have a way of sending text emails to Obsidian by forwarding them to Dropbox via IFTTT and then having the Mac utility change them to .md files and move them into my vault, but i would love to be able to figure out a way to het HTML emails into Obsidian with the formatting intact.
2. Notifications when files become orphaned
There are plugins that promise to clean orphaned files, but I’d like a way to be notified as it happens so I can fix the issue that caused them to be orphaned or manually delete them on the spot
3. Print as RTF
I don’t print often, but having to export as PDF in order to preserve formatting is too many steps for my liking. I want to be able to have a print function that renders the note as a rich text file and prints it.
4. Dataview queries that render when pasted (like Waypoint does)
When you copy a Dataview query in a note, the system copies the underlying code, not the results of the query. You can’t paste the results. The Waypoint plugin is different. The links it generates can be copied and elsewhere. I’d like to see that extended.
5. Native PDF searching
The Text Extractor plugin allows you to search PDFs, but it creates a bunch of extraneous files in your .Obsidian folder. If there is a way around that, I’d sure like to see it implemented. I do not keep any complicated PDFs in my vault because of the search limitation, something i was able to do in Evernote without a problem.
6. Collaboration in the form of shared folders
I’d like an easy way to share data on a per-folder basis with another Obsidian user. There are some hacky ways to do sharing but I want it without the hacking, so I could share something with my mom if I wanted to.
7. iOS/Mac share sheet integration (out)
There are a lot of ways to get data into Obsidian via other apps, shortcuts and plugins, but not so many ways to share data out without resorting to copy and pasting or PDFs. Plenty of other apps have sharing, why not Obsidian?
8. Built-in search and replace across notes
You can use a pluginor third party text editors like BBEdit or Notepad++ to do global search and replace and it should not be difficult to add a feature like that to a text based program like Obsidian.
9. Background syncing on mobile (in the way that email fetches in the background)
Plenty of mobile apps can check for updates in the background, from Instagram to email. Why can’t Obsidian check for updates in the background for people who pay for sync so that we don’t have such an interminable wait when we launch the mobile app?
10. Integration with IFTTT
As a long time IFTTT user, I seeall the integrations that other notes apps like Evernoteand Notion have and wonder why we can’t have the same thing in Obsidian. It would drastically improve automation and data collection in so many areas.
Artificial Intelligence and Me, an Average Guy - how much has AI had an impact on me and my life as Lou the Computer Guy just living my life down here in NC? Not much actually. Folks can just calm down. The sky isn’t falling.
Today for #Junited2024, I’m giving a shout out to one of my favorite microbloggers @pratik. I appreciate his political perspectives, tv and movie choices, acerbic wit and overall friendliness. A Love Affair with Blogs
Today on AppAddict - My first negative review. Yep, definitely not recommending MagicMenu from iBoysoft due to limited functionality, bait and switch pricing and lack of an advertised free trial. If you want to add to Finder’s right-click menu, there are better options.
From my 100 Strangers project - Teresa and Peter proved that people will accommodate you if you have a camera. The frame was not my prop, it just happened to be leaning against a table at the flea market where I was scouting for subjects. I handed it to them and asked them to pose and they did.
I did the IT onboarding for the technology director of our new medical school today. When it was time to set up 2FA, she handed me her phone and I commented that it was an Android. “I hate Apple” she says. She’s probably pretty cool but that was a BAD first impression.
Today I continue my 59-year streak of not installing beta software on my thousands of dollars' worth of Apple devices because I’m too goddamned impatient to wait until it’s ready for prime time.
The suppression of speech which criticizes Israel or puts forth a Palestinian point of view is antithetical to what are supposed to be the values of higher education in specific and America in general Columbia Law Review taken offline for publishing an article by a Palestinian Law Student
I don’t start judging you until you get up to Untitled Folder (3) or Downloaded_File_3
The phenomena of Trail Magic on long distance hiking trails like the AT, PCT and Continental Divide Trail. 100DaysToOffload 10/100
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
Today for #Junited2024 I’m featuring the blog of Chicagoland’s own Jason Kratz and his recent post on social media usage.I love the gut level honesty that comes through on all of Jason’s posts.
Today on AppAddict - I explore the world of keyboard driven application switchers featuring the FOSS app AltTab, a hidden Keyboard Maestro feature and more.
From my 100 Strangers Project - Hippie Mike was hustling t-shirts at the flea market and had no problem having his portrait taken or giving me a free shirt so I could use it and the picture to remember the experience.
Working on my /slash page homework from @robb@social.lol - Today I’ve updated my /defaults. There have been some additions since I created this is January, but no deletions. I can never have enough software.