"content":"It’s funny ’cause it’s true.\n\nNot everyone needs [their] own custom static site generator. In fact, most of those blogs can’t stop blogging about blogging instead of having something genuinely exciting to tell.",
"name":"Terugblik derde NL-talige Obsidian meet-up",
"content":"Gisteravond vond de 3e Nederlandstalige Obsidian meet-up plaats, dit keer met zeven deelnemers. Organisator was Christian. Het was al weer even geleden dat ik de eerste 2 sessies hield. Veel langer geleden dan ik me realiseerde toen ik het tijdens de...",
"content":"Constraint-based Creativity by Wouter GroeneveldWouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)\nThe whispering whizz of mowing scythes startled sleepy birds nesting near the ancient Nile Delta. Workers harvest the papyrus plant quickly and efficiently, before th...",
"content":"This is a non-exhaustive collection of interesting links and websites I found on the Internet during my “surfing” 🌊. These are definitely more interesting than my browser’s bookmarks! Links with a #️⃣ icon are IPFS links!\n✏️ Articles...",
"content":"I really appreciate your though provoking reflection Wouter. I have been left thinking after your post a few months ago about ‘posting everything‘, especially after reading some of Chris Aldrich’s recent discussions about commonplace books.\nI w...",
"name":"19 Years of Blogging, the Still At Home Edition",
"content":"Today at 14:07 it is exactly 19 years ago I published the first post on this blog. Back then I already mention how connecting to others, conversation, is the key thing I’m aiming for. I’ve always been a prolific note maker (going back to primary ...",
"content":"Op 20 november a.s. vanaf 20:00 vindt de derde Nederlandstalige Obsidian meet-up plaats! Dit keer geïnitieerd door @CABenstein in het Nederlandstalige kanaal op de Obsidian Discord. Je kunt je aanmelden op Eventbrite, of anders laat even van je hore...",
"content":"In reply to Collective Creativity by Wouter Groeneveld\nInterestingly this came up yesterday at the FOSS4G-NL conference I visited, where Amélie A Gagnon talked about scenius as communal genius, a scene that jams together and creates results no singl...",
"content":"Do I understand correctly that you have written your own webmention sender/endpoint for your Hugo-powered site in Go? Have you written about it and/or opened the code?\nThe reason I’m asking is that my own site is built with Hugo, and I have written...",
"content":"In reply to A Triumph for Blogging by Wouter Groeneveld\nI recognise what you write very much. Blogging for me is about having distributed conversations, and starting my blog all those years ago caused a sort of Cambrian explosion in the interaction I...",
"content":"I am not sure if I had thought about the benefits of blogging in this manner. I have always thought about the connections that come through the sharing of ideas, but I had not thought about the benefits of blogging itself. I feel that I miss out in n...",
"content":"A Triumph For Blogging door Wouter GroeneveldWouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)\nSince taking blogging a bit more serious a few years ago, I’ve had the opportunity to meet some truly wonderful people. This is a short ode to blogging. It might spark...",
"content":"Are Digital Gardens Blogs? by Wouter GroeneveldWouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)\nI’ve missed the latest IndieWeb popup gathering on digital gardens and streams (thanks Frank for bringing that up). Thankfully, they are intricate note-takers, and i...",
"name":"📑 Creativity Self-Assessment Is Nonsense",
"content":"Wouter Groeneveld explains that creativity is not in what is created, but rather in the critic.\ncreativity is in fact a label that is put onto something (not someone) by an expert in the field that is not the maker. No single painter can claim his or...",
"content":"I am glad that it is not just me who has issues with the HP Sprocket and the dependency on an app. Also appreciated your thoughts on parking machines too.",
"content":"I am glad that it is not just me who has issues with the HP Sprocket and the dependency on an app. Also appreciated your thoughts on parking machines too.",
"content":"I think the IndieWeb makes a lot more fun without syndicating to the silos. I already had some nice interactions via just WebMentions and completely ditched those social networks.",
"name":"Indexing, filing systems, and the art of finding what you havee",
"content":"In reply to Indexing, filing systems, and the art of finding what you havee by Austin Kleon\nWhat I have started doing last April, following a tip by Wouter Groeneveld during the first Dutch language Obsidian meet-up, is scanning notebooks (I use a ca...",
"content":"E. A. Sports. It’s In The Game!—who doesn’t remember that jaw-dropping introduction? Just in case you do need a reminder on how awesome it was to boot up FIFA Road To World Cup 98 in 1997, here’s a video highlighting all the exciting moments ...",
"content":"You might try the European INSPIRE portal to see if there’s any water data there that covers la Wallonie. It wouldn’t be the first time that data which isn’t available locally is provided to a supranational entity that then does publish it. Alt...",
"content":"Rules of a Creator’s Life by Wouter GroeneveldWouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)\nI initially wrote down these rules in my second notebook on the 23th of April in 2012. I came across them a second time in a more recent notebook. To me, these rules ...",
"content":"This is the first webmention I have sent in a while. Super excited! That aside, I wanted to say that I agreed with your point about webmention.io being the most convenient option.\n\nI am presently considering whether to set up a webmention receiver in...",
"content":"The summer of 2021 is here: not only the sun, but also hope is in the air. Most conferences are still mostly virtually presented, but at least this time E3 isn’t completely canceled. Even though most of the bombs still need to be dropped (Switch Pr...",
"content":"The summer of 2021 is here: not only the sun, but also hope is in the air. Most conferences are still mostly virtually presented, but at least this time E3 isn’t completely canceled. Even though most of the bombs still need to be dropped (Switch Pr...",
"name":"The Necessary Preconditions for Serendipity",
"content":"Earlier this spring I found my way to Wouter Groeneveld, a Belgian polymath, via a post Ton made about a meetup they both attended.\n\nOn Wouter’s blog I read mention of his interest in fountain pens, an interest we share that was later rein...",
"content":"A bunch of ideas for my website that might never get implemented.Wanna know more about the website? Check out the meta page!Change the font-size to 17px (more?). be careful with different device sizes. Mobile keep 16. Test.Reading sectionCreate backe...",
"content":"Thank you Wouter for the read. I accept your criticism of my practice. To explain my personal intent, I used to use Diigo to capture such links. However, I turned to using my own sites as I wanted to own the data. I am not worried about whether it is...",
"content":"Wouter schrijft op zijn blog (en reageert zo automatisch op mijn blogpost, waardoor ik er van weet, magie!) over een vreemde gewoonte van sommige bloggers om álles te documenteren op het eigen domein. Als voorbeeld geeft Wouter mijn verzameling van ...",
"content":"More nineties collecting nostalgia. After I wrote about it at https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/05/nineties-collecting-nostalgia/ my wife dug up a shoebox full of… well… judge for yourself. From left to right:Kinder Surprise figurines, Polly Pock...",
"name":"I am blessed, here in Charlottetown, with an independent bookshop, The Bookmark, that has an owner who is a pen lover, and has worked very hard to cultivate a pen community and a stock of pens and inks to support it. The price difference between shopping locally and shopping online isn’t great, and I think there’s an awareness in the community that we need to fuel the shop to ensure its longevity.",
"content":"I am blessed, here in Charlottetown, with an independent bookshop, The Bookmark, that has an owner who is a pen lover, and has worked very hard to cultivate a pen community and a stock of pens and inks to support it. The price difference between shop...",
"content":"In reply to Wouter’s posting on eyeing a new fountain pen.\nMy friend Peter Rukavina enjoys fountain pens a lot too. He recently posted about a TWSBI pen where each one is slightly unique due to the colorisation of the titanium used. You should prob...",
"name":"I’ve got a couple of starters already. I need to focus on making bread more often than once every week or two. I’m also about to embark on a kimchi experiment and am two weeks into a regular cycle of sauerkraut. I’ve also got lots fermenting in a few Obsidian, TiddlyWiki, and MediaWiki notebooks as well; glad to see others are doing something similar.\nOn the Webemention front, I’m aware that it’s something that could happen. I’m only sending one from my site. You’re getting the second because you’ve set up your site to receive them from Brid.gy as well—that’s not something over which I have control. Some in the IndieWeb space have set up code to de-duplicate webmentions from syndicated copies. If it becomes an issue for you, maybe it’s worth looking into? In practice it’s only something I see a few time a year.",
"content":"I’ve got a couple of starters already. I need to focus on making bread more often than once every week or two. I’m also about to embark on a kimchi experiment and am two weeks into a regular cycle of sauerkraut. I’ve also got lots fermenting in...",
"content":"@https://boffosocko.com/2021/04/27/55790631/ thanks! You should get a sourdough started soon. This will get you into fermenting stuff. Next, try to ripen ideas in a journal. It’ll work wonders!Interesting “Twitter of our own” talk. Are you awar...",
"name":"I sort of like the idea of \"Brain Baking\" as a framing for lifelong learning with a bit of commonplace book or digital gardening thrown in. You can't help but love naming short notes as \"new half-baked ideas\".\nbrainbaking.com\n(boffosocko.com/2021/04/27/557…)",
"content":"I sort of like the idea of \"Brain Baking\" as a framing for lifelong learning with a bit of commonplace book or digital gardening thrown in. You can't help but love naming short notes as \"new half-baked ideas\".\nbrainbaking.com\n(boffosocko.com/2021/04/...",
"content":"I sort of like the idea of “Brain Baking” as a framing for lifelong learning with a bit of commonplace book or digital gardening thrown in. You can’t help but love naming short notes as “new half-baked ideas”.",
"name":"S02E39 – Een terugblik op de eerste Obsidian meetup",
"content":"Vrienden! \n\n\n\nIn plaats van een reguliere nieuwsbrief, deze keer wat anders!\n\n\n\nAfgelopen zaterdag vond de eerste Nederlandstalige Obsidian Meetup plaats. Geheel online natuurlijk. Ik heb al vaker over Obsidian geschreven, het is een notitie-app die ...",
"name":"@ton Frank zijn webmention geeft als publicatie datum \"26 April 2021\" terwijl ik een ISO8601 formaat verwacht, en ik blijkbaar niet mooi dit opvang, bijgevolg crasht het genereren van html pagina's... *zucht* Aan het fixen nu!",
"content":"@ton Frank zijn webmention geeft als publicatie datum \"26 April 2021\" terwijl ik een ISO8601 formaat verwacht, en ik blijkbaar niet mooi dit opvang, bijgevolg crasht het genereren van html pagina's... *zucht* Aan het fixen nu!",
"content":"In reply to The first Dutch Obsidian meetup by Wouter Groeneveld\nDon’t worry, I mostly blog in English, sometimes in Dutch and seldomly in German. My notes reflect much the same thing, they’re a mix of those languages, plus source material in a f...",
"content":"This test verifies that you accept a Webmention request that contains a valid source and target URL. To pass this test, your Webmention endpoint must return either HTTP 200, 201 or 202 along with the appropriate headers.\n If your endpoint retu...",
"name":"Nabeschouwing: de eerste Nederlandstalige Obsidian meet-up",
"content":"De allereerste Nederlandstalige meet-up van Obsidian.md gebruikers was interessant en leuk! We waren met z’n vieren, Sebastiaan, Wouter, Frank en ik, en spraken bijna 2 uur met elkaar. Leuk om te vergelijken waarom en hoe we notities maken in Obsid...",
"name":"Note to self: attend the Indieweb event \"Webmenti...",
"content":"Note to self: attend the Indieweb event “Webmentions Beyond Webmention.io” at May 15 - @https://events.indieweb.org/2021/05/webmentions-beyond-webmention-io-zG4JpHhZShVA - to convince everyone to also implement pingbacks 😈 RSVP: yes",
"name":"I changed my mind on my toot syndication to brainb...",
"content":"I changed my mind on my toot syndication to brainbaking.com policy. From now on, only non-replies (in-reply-to) get pushed to https://brainbaking.com/notes/ - it was cluttering up the RSS feed and most replies are useless to non-followers anyway. Sor...",
"name":"I changed my mind on my toot syndication to brainb...",
"content":"I changed my mind on my toot syndication to brainbaking.com policy. From now on, only non-replies (in-reply-to) get pushed to https://brainbaking.com/notes/ - it was cluttering up the RSS feed and most replies are useless to non-followers anyway. Sor...",
"content":"Recommended read:\nThe IndieWeb Mixed Bag- Thoughts about the (d)evolution of blog interactions\nhttps://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/the-indieweb-mixed-bag/",
"name":"@rsolva that's a lie indeed 😁 see https://brainba...",
"content":"@rsolva that’s a lie indeed 😁 see https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-rid-of-tracking-using-lineageos/ I use davx5 and it works flawlessly",
"name":"I've been fiddling with IndieWeb stuff the last week and all in all, I think it's a mixed...",
"content":"I've been fiddling with IndieWeb stuff the last week and all in all, I think it's a mixed bag: https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/the-indieweb-mixed-bag/@kev after I published it, I found out your \"removing support for indieweb\" post. Seems like we...",
"name":"Heads up RSS feed readers of brainbaking.com! Federated half-baked thoughts (https://brainbaking....",
"content":"Heads up RSS feed readers of brainbaking.com! Federated half-baked thoughts (https://brainbaking.com/notes/) are now integrated in /index.xml 🤓. Don't like that? Subscribe to /post/index.xml instead! Next up: webmentions, PESOS-ing of Goodreads revi...",
"name":"Heads up RSS feed readers of brainbaking.com! Federated half-baked thoughts (https://brainbaking....",
"content":"Heads up RSS feed readers of brainbaking.com! Federated half-baked thoughts (https://brainbaking.com/notes/) are now integrated in /index.xml 🤓. Don't like that? Subscribe to /post/index.xml instead! Next up: webmentions, PESOS-ing of Goodreads revi...",
"name":"@StampedingLonghorn @256 Don't forget the cleverly hidden Roland MT-32, a majestic piece of p...",
"content":"@StampedingLonghorn @256 Don't forget the cleverly hidden Roland MT-32, a majestic piece of pre-MIDI standardized era synthesizer. What else would you use to run Sierra Online games, and monkey1? I really need one for my 486… https://brainbaking.com/...",
"name":"I pulled the Google plug and installed LineageOS: https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-ri...",
"content":"I pulled the Google plug and installed LineageOS: https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-rid-of-tracking-using-lineageos/ Very impressed so far! Also rely on my own CalDAV server to replace GCalendar. Any others here running #lineageos for priv...",
"name":"Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield - 17 Years Later",
"content":"It’s amazing that the second disk is still readable by my Retro WinXP machine. It has been heavily abused in 2003 and the years after that. Rainbow Six' third installment, Raven Shield (or simply RvS), is quite a departure from the crude looking Ro...",
"name":"Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield - 17 Years Later",
"content":"It’s amazing that the second disk is still readable by my Retro WinXP machine. It has been heavily abused in 2003 and the years after that. Rainbow Six' third installment, Raven Shield (or simply RvS), is quite a departure from the crude looking Rogu...",
"content":"Good news everyone! Futurama might not be back, but old PC gaming previews and reviews from UnionVault.NET, one of Jefklak’s Codex ancestors, have been revived. I happened to stumble upon a few readable HTML files wile looking for something else an...",
"content":"Good news everyone! Futurama might not be back, but old PC gaming previews and reviews from UnionVault.NET, one of Jefklak’s Codex ancestors, have been revived. I happened to stumble upon a few readable HTML files wile looking for something else and ...",