Pipes.digital is a great replacement for Yahoo Pipes. As a keen RSS user I used to love Pipes back in the day. It was good for getting rid of ads and unwanted content from feeds.
You get three pipes for free, or ten for $5/mo. A bit pricey. But hopefully this means it will be able to survive.
The first ever podcast I listened/watched was Diggnation, back in 2005 (nearly 20 years ago!)
If you were a tech geek it was the absolute best. I cannot tell you how excited I was each week to watch it.
Well, the two hosts – Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose – have just done a kind of reunion show! 🥹
A few new posts on my tech blog today, mostly around AI.
I keep on hearing such mixed things about The Bear season 3, it’s insane.
I wouldn’t know. found S01E01 so anxiety inducing that I never watched another episode of it. 🫨
This review is worth it for its Astral Weeks joke alone.
Evergreen notes allow you to think about complex ideas by building them up from smaller composable ideas.
My evergreen notes have titles that distill each idea in a succinct and memorable way, that I can use in a sentence. For example:
You don’t need to agree with the idea for it to become an evergreen note. Evergreen notes can be very short.
I have an evergreen note called Creativity is combinatory uniqueness that is built on top of another evergreen note:
If you believe Everything is a remix, then creativity is defined by the uniqueness and appeal of the combination of elements.
Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects. By turning ideas into objects you can manipulate them, combine them, stack them. You don’t need to hold them all in your head at the same time.
The term evergreen notes was coined by Andy Matuschak and you can find more about this method on his site. You can also listen to my interview on the Metamuse podcast for more thoughts on evergreen notes and how I use them in Obsidian.
Good morning all. It’s currently 18°C where I am ☀️
📖 Morning links:
🧍♂️Me update:
Watching Noah Kalina’s “Hotline Show” series on YouTube. I can’t tell if it’s good or not. But it’s cosy, relaxing and weirdly captivating. So let’s say good.
He also described getting sleepy as “sun setting”, which I rather like.
Good morning all. It’s currently 15°C where I am ☀️
📖 Morning reads:
🧍♂️Me update:
🔗 15 rules for blogging - Matt Webb
Some of the best and most realistic rules for blogging I’ve seen. Though I realise I’m breaking rule 12 with this post:
Don’t use a post just to link to something elsewhere. If there’s a point to make, start with that.
🔗 Why I write and why I won’t – Remy Sharp°
He says that one of the benefits of sharing your thoughts or solutions on your blog is that they’re very easy to find again thanks to search engines.
I’d never really thought about that. Search is difficult. I’m unsatisfied with the search function of nearly all software I use.
And whilst Google isn’t what it once was it will probably still be better at finding something I’ve written on the web than Obsidian will be at finding something I’ve written in my notes.
