Rapture in Everything

Posts tagged "tools"

Chatroom as an archive - Matrix scores again!

When the recent Twitter fiasco started, I created a chatroom with a few friends, so we could watch it burn together. We've been sharing screenshots, links, commentary - it's been a lot of fun. Even better now that Reddit has joined! But besides a few giggles, I wondered whether I could use the chatroom itself as an archive. If I wanted to go back to it, say, in two years and have a few laughs at Elon's expense again, could I? It doesn't really seem feasible within Whatapp itself. It does kee...

csv-to-sqlite 2.1.3 - security update

Over on GitHub, the Dependabot opened several PRs/notifications about security-compromised dependencies in my tool for guessing the types of data in your CSV files and importing them into a SQLite DB. I noticed it's really been quite a while since the last update, so I went ahead and fixed that. Dependabot warned that some of the updates can't be done automatically because there were larger version bumps to overcome, but I wasn't bothered - the script is quite simple, and the trivial functional...

Typora vs. MarkText

My comparison of two good Markdown editors....

On taking notes and syndicating them

I've been following Ton Zijlstra's blog for the past few months with great interest. There's noone else in my reader who blogs quite like he does - maybe I should find more.[1] He writes about many topics, only one of which is relevant for this post: taking notes. I always like reading about how other people process information and handle their notes/knowledge bases. It's a topic I think about often. Ton Zijlstra's ideas are especially interesting to me because it seems we are trying to achiev...

Learning Keyboards

I have wanted an ergonomic keyboard for years. Eventually it started to look like I can't choose one with any degree of confidence without learning something about them first. In this post I'm summing up my adventure, what I learned on the way, and some of the things I wish I knew when I started. 😊...