The rules of engagement for the new Creativity Hacker site are still evolving, and today I’ve identified a use-case distinction that I haven’t got a specific solution for: status updates vs issue journaling.
Project: Websmith Plumbing
Project WebSmith is about more than just creating a website. It’s about creating a “thought-sharing” extension to the system I use for keeping my personal notes. Whether it’s ideas for a project, progress notes, book reviews, thoughts about social issues, whatever. I keep all of that in one place. And now I want to be able to share selected entries automatically. So the project name “websmith,” isn’t only about the worldwide web - or also refers to my own personal web of ideas, projects, and communications. (I’ll leave the origin of the “smith” part as an exercise for the reader. :-)
The primary interface for this system is my personal wiki, which I’ve been using in one form or another for almost 20 years. For the last 5, it has resided in Obsidian, which I access almost exclusively through my Android phone, although I also use vim when I’m working on a computer that has a keyboard.
The public-facing side of all this is being driven by Hugo, which takes any notes I’ve flagged for public consumption and builds my new website from them. If you’re reading this and you aren’t me, chances are high that you’re viewing the results of that pipeline now. :-)
This project stream will be about my adventures shoe-horning Hugo into my existing Obsidian workflow.
Project Log Entries
Cousin of the Skunk
After trying a few different schemes for generating bag names, I’ve made some further decisions about how the system will work. Not as automated as I’d hoped, but not as manual as I’d feared…
Comment System
Disqus was a disappointment. I last looked at it a couple of years ago, and found it to be serviceable then, but it seems to have taken a slide onto the slums of the web, and is now covered in ads and unresponsive web pages. Not the kind of image that makes me think they’ll value the privacy of my guests. But I’ve found a different solution…