Phoenix [she/they]

$100 for lifetime subscription

Bold of them to assume they’ll even still be maintaining this app in 4.16 years

I use it for all the reasons you’ve mentioned. I especially write down recommendations, ideas, thoughts that felt worth noticing, anything I think I’m going to forget that doesn’t go on my calendar or somewhere else, and braindumping/processing my feelings.

I use an app called Logseq, because it combines the things I wanted from some of the other main apps in one place, which none of the other apps manage to do all of:

• Outliner structure like Notion or Roam or Workflowy lets you have (my brain requires this format when taking notes)
• Super fast page linking search, which Notion kinda sucks at but others are better at
• Data is stored on my computer, like Obsidian; not in the cloud. It’s stored as markdown (ish) by default.
• Automatic daily page created for each day, like Roam
• Mobile app is almost 1-1 feature parity with the desktop app, like Notion
• Open source (mostly)

Logseq does have a moderate amount of rough edges, and has been frustrating from an open source perspective at times (I’ve had PRs linger for over a year before just getting rejected because they didn’t want to bother with it), but it’s still the one I like the most.

FYI though syncing between devices with it is still pretty shaky. They have a native sync for $5/mo that is getting reasonably good, and is in beta. Syncing files via other means is kinda risky/not-great UX.

The main thing I encourage here is: If you’re breaking up longer functions into more smaller ones that are really only used in this context, don’t mix them into the same file as functions that are general use. It makes code super confusing to navigate. Speaking from experience on an open source project I contribute to.

But with more walls around the garden

Just to help me understand: Why is it that when I try the same search on different instances of this, I get very different search results?

Russian, but yeah

More discussion here: https://tildes.net/~comp/18h8/web_environment_integrity_a_google_proposal_for_general_web_drm

This shit keeps radicalizing me about the internet more and more. Ughh.

I mean, Google does index and cache most webpages internally already. So yeah, maybe. But after reading the article it doesn’t sound like they’re doing that.

We see the “cloud” as some bulletproof storage but long term it’s up in the air really.

A+ pun, intended or not

I even found an old diary entry of mine today that linked to one of my own facebook posts, and that link had already rotted. Ugh.

Hm. I wonder if you could write a browser extension to just kill gifs in their tracks and only show the first frame without hover or whatever. Maybe. Didn’t find a solution after a cursory look (only malware called Gif Jam) but this certainly seems possible in principle…

Someone on StackOverflow found a thing that accomplished it; maybe this can be converted into a userscript. If this would be really valuable to you, and you aren’t up for doing it yourself, let me know — I might make this just for fun. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5818003/stop-a-gif-animation-onload-on-mouseover-start-the-activation

EDIT: I made one. Weirdly it works on all sites except beehaw, though, and it just breaks gifs on beehaw. Probably some content security policy on beehaw preventing the images from loading for the JS? https://gist.github.com/phoenixeliot/45f0c6a04fffd84998ac8bc526c901fe

But it does successfully replace gifs with broken images, so maybe still net positive for people for whom gifs are a health hazard?

Some parts that can be configured:

Which sites it applies to:

// @match        https://beehaw.org/*
// @match        https://*

How to select which elements are considered gifs:

  var gifElements = document.querySelectorAll(
    'img[src$="gif"], img[alt*=animated]'
  );

My old Kindle Keyboard (3rd gen kindle), still about $30 on ebay, I believe, is my absolute favorite way to read long-form information, and I can hold it however is comfortable instead of awkwardly avoiding the screen with my thumb. I read a lot more books because of it.