2025.02.17.

2025.02.10.

Bookmarked “(mac)OStalgia”

Mac(os)talgia is exploring my 2020 work-from-home routine with an added touch of nostalgia. How would have the same workflow looked like with the tools of today and the limitations of yesterday.

I would take this Mac OS 9 design of Slack, Zoom, and Figma immediately.

2025.01.31.

2025.01.24.

Bookmarked “RIFT Notes”

Quickly capture your thoughts and find them later.

  • Always ready to capture

  • Message-like interface

  • Instant-search, grep-like results view

  • Syncs .md files to your iCloud

  • Markdown syntax highlighting

  • Sweet retro look ’n feel, color themes

  • (inspiration: SCRL component/style)

  • View your notes on a map

Interesting app, which also uses the chat-based UI we seen with Strflow and Gibberish. I really like the design of this one, feels retro.

Also, it saves notes as simple Markdown files, which can be moved around, so there is no proprietary database.

Previously:

Bookmarked “Memos – Open Source, Self-hosted, Your Notes, Your Way”

A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking solution that allows you to effortlessly capture and share your ideas.

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking platform that allows users to create and store notes in an SQLite database. There is threading too.

Previously:

2025.01.20.

Read “The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again”

How the rise of internet surveillance, algorithmic polarization of social media, predatory app stores, and extractive business models have eroded the freedoms once promised by personal computers.

In the short term, we can do things like support open projects like Linux, support non-predatory and open source software, and run apps and store data locally as much as possible. But some bigger structural changes are necessary if we really want to launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0.

2025.01.16.

2025.01.15.

Bookmarked “Developer Roadmaps – roadmap.sh”

roadmap.sh is a community effort to create roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide developers in picking up a path and guide their learnings.

Role-based and skill-based roadmaps, project ideas, best practices, and other resources for various areas of development including Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Full Stack, AI, and more.

2025.01.11.

PrivTracker – Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone

PrivTracker allows to share torrent files just with your friends, nobody else. Unlike public trackers, it shares peers only within a group which is using the same Announce URL. It really works like a private tracker, but can be generated with one click of a button.

This could be actually useful for sending large files, not just Linux ISOs. The code is available on GitHub, so could be used as a self-hosted service as well.

2025.01.09.

2025.01.06.

2025.01.05.

2025.01.04.

Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool

If you work in shell/terminal often enough, then over time the history will become your personal knowledge vault, documentation and command reference. Being able to use this personal documentation efficiently can hugely boost your productivity. So, here are a couple of tips on how to optimize your shell history configuration and usage to get the most out of it.

Well, I’m not sure how effective the shell history of being a “personal knowledge vault, documentation, and command reference,” but optimizing its use doesn’t hurt.

I also looked into ShellHistory, which can create notebooks from the command history. Actually, this can be a pretty cool way to document processes, like installing a Rails app and its dependencies or starting a full stack of software.

With the ShellHistory you can easily keep years of shell history, search history using Full Text Search, back it up to iCloud, create Notebooks.

On the other hand, I could just keep the history synced between my Macs.

2024.11.21.

2024.10.02.

2024.09.01.

2024.08.28.

2024.08.15.

Bookmarked “kindaVim”

Vim Mode for macOS. The mode you love in your favorite editor, now in your favorite OS.

I want to use something like this, but I don’t like that it is automatically enabled in every text view. Also, a subscription for this?

I remember the QuickCursor app from Hog Bay Software, which lets you select any text by pressing a keyboard shortcut, which would open the text in your favorite editor. Saving the file in the editor would update the text view. Sadly, it is not developed anymore.

These days, I select the text in the text view and use the “New MacVim Buffer With Selection” service. This opens the selected text in MacVim, although I have to paste the text manually back.

2024.07.07.

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2024.02.22.

2024.02.20.

2024.01.13.