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i love triggers, started with them, and they are still a good toolset to have if CDC is not an option by the source database we need to pull from

Back to the fundamentals! Triggers it is, indeed.

Free and available on windows, Mac AND Linux.

Apps overview of PhotoCraft (Photoshop), VectorCraft (Illustrator), FilmCraft (Premiere Pro) LightCraft (Lightroom), PdfCraft (Acrobat) EffectCraft (After Effects), DesignCraft (InDesign): https://getartcraft.com/apps

Code: https://github.com/storytold

Chandu Thota, VP @google on X: > We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.

> You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!

https://x.com/ChanduThota/status/2107195115441946850/

good point, thanks for the honesty. I will change that, I think the color inside pop up make sense (red removed, green added words), but the green dot does not add value.

This page has been live long before AI appeared, I used Quartz [1] v3, now at v5. But added some features I like with AI, yes, but still keeping my beloved color theme and web style as I had it for a long, long time. The whole code for the second brain (ssp.sh/brain/*) is on GitHub, in case you want to check it [2], but you can also see the "Changelog" in the footer to see recent visual changes. But I'd be curious what makes you think it's AI-generated?

[1] https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz [2] https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public

I've noticed a similar phenomenon: getting tired of networks and algorithms. I wrote a short essay with my thoughts on "Well Being in Times of Algorithms" [1].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352747

They have one of the best articles out there, and now the page is great too. Fun and innovative. My favorite article, in case you haven't read it already, is local-first [1], or I recently read the embark, dynamic documents for making plans. These always give me so much inspiration.

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ [2] https://www.inkandswitch.com/embark/

TLDR:

1. If consumed by a human, it should also be written by one

2. It's hard to finish an idea that's not yours

3. If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI

4. AI won't replace human writing (as writing is thinking)

I do the same. Cherish the moments, not the pictures.

a 100% :)

Fully agreed.

This was specific to writing, and it is sometimes the hardest thing to finalize and get out there, it's sometimes ultra hard, so there's time when you definitely don't enjoy it. But overall, I agree that you should enjoy it, and this is also what. I guess the same counts for coding.

Check out the Markdown editor Inkdrop on the website yourself, just click on it and play around. https://www.inkdrop.app/

I use a single Docker container [1] to run a full VM on Linux, and it works like a charm for Excel and Word when I still need them.

[1] https://github.com/dockur/windows

hehe :D

While I use Claude a lot for my Omarchy plugins and Linux optimization/failure detection, I don’t use it for writing and note-taking, especially for coming up with unique ideas and driving them home by writing them through to the end.

It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI.

Only thing missing is a Screener, which once you have it, you cant live without. No need for burner adresses, as nobod lands in your inbox unapproves. I added it to my TUI, nvim and markdown first email client, neomd.

this is great to see! I used SeaweedFS in the meantime; it worked great too, and there are some other great alternatives [1], but I'm glad the original MinIO version continues. Gonna try this soon.

[1]: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/s3-storage-alternatives

I think that happens already with email. I get a ton of same emails "want to join my podcast" or "see my product" based on some github projects I did or so, clearly all ai written. Important to have a good screener in your email.

same, also what I noticed

beautiful write up, thanks for sharing. I'm adding it to the "further reads". Love the "pre-tirement" term :)

author here, this is the differentiation I meant, and I didn't make it clear enough before - I added now a callout to clarify this more:

> To me, vacations are too short to turn off completely. Here, where I live, we have 5 weeks a year, if you are lucky, you can take three in a row in summer. But having two months or more, it’s completely different. Your mind will take time to turn off, to shut down from everyday life, and that’s when the benefit of new ideas comes, usually out of the blue, not forced just because your mind and body are resting from work and everything else.

this is all free, open-source, and I'm just sharing, so no need to go there if you don't like it :0. you can check it out, or not, up to you. maybe helpful to someone else

The takeaway should be to show how note-taking, publishing notes with a single #hashtag (no formatting needed or conversion), and doing so over a long time can compound to help write-inspired blog posts or even chapters of a later book. Not sure if that is enough, but I thought it might be interesting. I did the first commit to my SB on GitHub since 2022-08-30.

Oh, true, the explorer is actually not huge, it's more an example where I tried to improve the usage of public notes, with the help of AI (good catch! :D). I probably shouldn't have included it. I wrote a full article with more details on how I did it: https://www.ssp.sh/blog/obsidian-rag-duckdb-sql/

I started to use tmux-claude-session-manager (https://github.com/craftzdog/tmux-claude-session-manager) in tmux, to have a pop-up to see all active sessions. I don't have many in parallel, so usually I don't even need, but if I'm lost or forgot one, it's really helpful.

Yes this 100%. I'd say: don't overrate how you do it; it matters more what you do, especially with LLM models. It's just a tool.

Great article, I see it is very similar. To me it's about learning, not "producing" — as Jason Fried said [1]:

> I've never created content, I've written things down. > I've never created content, I've said things out loud. > I've never created content, I've recorded a video. > I've never created content, I've shown someone around. > I've never created content, I've pointed something out.

[1] https://x.com/jasonfried/status/1831763756856307880

I think so, thinking is like training a muscle, if you don't do it often, you don't get to do so. But it's not as black and white, because there are different use cases where it makes total sense to use, and when it doesn't. I collected opinions from writers and developers over the years and share why I'm pro writing text manually. https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/

> If you want to enhance your consciousness / rot your brain with AI - go ahead.

I agree, if we don't use it carefully, we won't be able to think confidentially. Obviously, there's no way around using it as a tool, but I think it will be a long-term loss of clear thinking if we stop learning or brainstorming ourselves. Similar to what Paul said: "The result will be a world divided into write-ers and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write."

Time will tell. I wrote more at 'Will AI Replace Human Thinking' [1].

[1] https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans