A couple of powerful features added today that will eventually let me do some cool stuff, but none of those actual cool things added yet.
Project: Websmith Plumbing
Project WebSmith is about more than just creating a website. It’s about creating a thought-tracking system that lets me take my existing note-keeping system - where I track on many independent ideas and projects - and extend it to share selected entries publicly. So when I say “websmith,” I don’t only mean the worldwide web - I also mean 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 Update Posts
Attitude Update
I’ve been working lately on the system for showcasing completed projects and have been wrestling with the whole naming scheme conundrum. Today I made some key choices, and it affects more than just names. I’ve changed the way I think about products too.
Autofeeds Without Clutter
I need to be able to create some projects, such as my daily Maranga challenge, that will get a new post every day, but I don’t want those auto-pages filling up my Obsidian notebook system. Here’s how I’m planning to manage that.