Notices by kepano (kepano@mastodon.social)

Obsidian Web Clipper now lets you save directly to .md files so you can use the browser extension with any text editor

new project — defuddle

> de·fud·dle /diˈfʌdl/ transitive verb
> to remove unnecessary elements from a web page, and make it easily readable.

Inspired by my work on Obsidian Web Clipper I created Defuddle, an open source library to replace Mozilla's Readability in my projects. Defuddle extracts the main content from web pages.

Notably, Defuddle uses a website's mobile styles to find unnecessary elements that can be removed from the page.

try it out in Web Clipper 0.10.9 or install via NPM

freedom of encryption is a human right

All the cloud platforms use your data to train LLMs. Local-first tools are the way to fight back.

Security, defense, finance, healthcare, government... the reason high-security orgs use #Obsidian is for the privacy and ownership of their data.

Now every team can be sovereign.
https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/

what feature should we remove from #Obsidian?

- something old that no longer serves its purpose
- something that could be a plugin
- something you never use
- ?

if I spent less time using Obsidian I might have more time to improve it, but then I wouldn't know what to improve

computers started local-first and will go back to local-first

think of local-first as a hardening function

local systems should remain operational even when the infrastructure isn't... when the infrastructure comes back online, changes are synced

it's the same reason you might want a battery or generator if the electrical grid goes down

The darker values in Flexoki 2.0 also follow this exponential colorfulness to maintain a highly pigmented, natural feeling.

Flexoki 1.0 only provided the a range of values for the grayscale colors. What I have been working to solve since then is how to expand the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect. I'm very happy with how this turned out.

Flexoki emulates the feeling of pigment on paper by exponentially increasing intensity as colors get lighter or darker. This makes the colors feel vibrant and warm, rather than washed out.

Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is a continuation of my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens.

Flexoki is open source under the MIT license, and already available for most text editors, terminals, and many other apps. Flexoki 2.0 makes it into a more capable color system for UIs and more complex projects.

https://stephango.com/flexoki

You built a house on someone else's land, and then they tore it down.

Build a house on your own land. From there you can create roads, bridges, tunnels to other people's land.

On the web land is infinite. You can make your own land.

The accounting tool Bench shut down with no warning 3 days before the end of the year. They had raised $110m in venture capital.

The app is no longer accessible. There will be a way to export your data, but it's not available yet.

File over app is not just for individuals.

my partner took me to a ceramics class for my birthday and now I'm thinking we should make all our own plates and bowls and mugs

my 2024 side quest was making all the furniture for our house, maybe 2025 will be ceramics?

context: Bending Spoons is the rollup company that bought Evernote and is squeezing everything they can out of the remaining user base

I always feel like "hate" is a strong term, but in this case it might be understating it

Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.

Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

here's an example of using Obsidian Web Clipper to extract the transcript from a YouTube video then run it through Interpreter to summarize the key points

you can do the same with your highlights, or any page content you want — and run templates based on URL patterns

@sinbad saving images locally is on the roadmap — do keep in mind that this is solo project for me so far... be patient!

@sinbad that just means this feature will require changes to the Obsidian URI protocol, similar to the other new parameters we added recently to support Web Clipper
https://help.obsidian.md/Extending+Obsidian/Obsidian+URI