• Reading Zeynep Tufekci‘s article in The Atlantic This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic - It’s not R.
  • Finally actually read some of the Foam stuff, which I did have installed in my VSCode. The Markdown Notes extension I’ve now configured to properly create new notes, which is great.
    • Ironically, the way the actual Foam extension generates Link References at the bottom of each file, doesn’t work for me at all. Simply Jekyll takes care of that, because I can just use a wiki link and it takes care of looking up the file and matching it.
    • Of course, the concern I have with SJ is that it has some unique syntax which is very much tied up into the theme, thus making it not portable. I guess that means that technically the Foam link definitions would make a lot of it portable, using just plain markdown links.
  • Aside from notes here, I’m on a roll with my private notes in Roam Research.
    • That really just means getting things done, as I fill out a Worklog to stay on track.
    • I installed Roam as a PWA yesterday, when I noticed that option was available. Being able to alt-tab to it rather than just being lost in a sea of Chrome tabs definitely is a good thing.
  • Garden and the Gazebo is definitely going to need to get rewritten, and I’m probably feeling more comfortable with making this site a public git repo. Or at least, extracting the way I have things configured theme wise and sharing that.
    • I wanted local links to stand out, so I added CSS styles before and after to show the links in square brackets.
    • I originally included the full CSS as a code snippet, but the way linkifying works with SJ it turns them into links! 😜
  • Maybe the Colophon here can just be generated with backlinks now.
  • Continued massaging of content from OG blog and imported Medium posts that made it into Micro.blog, that make more sense here.
  • The Blog Colophon is here now.
    • Swapped out Archive for a new Blog listing. Needs more work to actually highlight latest blog posts. And I guess I should write long form personal posts at some point!
  • Upgraded to Micro.blog Premium
    • The new Bookmarking feature is a pretty good non-silo “read it later” feature, plus it will have reblogging built in.
    • It’s convenient to have my articles to read next to my blog-small-snippets, so looking forward to testing this.
    • Here’s Manton Reece doing a screencast of how it works.

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