Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused

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  • ArlosCommitNotation

    A notation for small commits messages that show the risk involved in each step

  • incremental-writing

    An incremental writing plugin for Obsidian where you add notes and blocks to prioritized queues and review them incrementally over time, spaced repetition style.

    I've been doing the "How To Take Smart Notes"[0] thing. So far, it's been working quite well for me.

    I've been using Obsidian[1] and a few plugins like Incremental Writing[2][3] to help me write. Focused less on publishing and more on writing for me.

    [0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34507927-how-to-take-sma...

    [1]: https://obsidian.md/

    [2]: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_writing

    [3]: https://github.com/bjsi/incremental-writing

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  • obsidian-releases

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

    I've been doing the "How To Take Smart Notes"[0] thing. So far, it's been working quite well for me.

    I've been using Obsidian[1] and a few plugins like Incremental Writing[2][3] to help me write. Focused less on publishing and more on writing for me.

    [0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34507927-how-to-take-sma...

    [1]: https://obsidian.md/

    [2]: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_writing

    [3]: https://github.com/bjsi/incremental-writing

  • Grav

    Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

    > I had that idea at least 1-2 years ago, and I've only recently written my first post within the past 2 months. I think I enjoy tinkering with build systems much more than writing.

    This is very much an easy trap to fall into! What helped me was not sweating over the small stuff and setting up an instance of Grav, though I think that most of the turnkey blogging solutions out there would work (e.g. Ghost/Bolt as well, maybe not self-hosted Wordpress as a first option due to large surface area): https://getgrav.org/

    What I really like about that solution in particular is that it is flat-file based and also has an admin web dashboard that's a separate plugin that can be enabled/disabled (some might prefer writing text files directly, with front matter and all) and has separate URL path that can be put behind basicauth (in addition to built in auth), client certificate auth or anything else.

    It's not perfect, of course, and has given me the occasional headaches, but it's also good enough for my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/

    That said, I still struggle with my homepage - instead of going back through 5+ years of projects and describing all of the noteworthy ones, putting up a few galleries of screenshots, listing technologies, ordering them by relevance and also making sure that it doesn't contain too much data... it's just sitting there, on my TODO list. It's been that way for a while now.

    I want it done. But I don't want to do it.

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