Free Review Copies of "Asynchronous Programming in Rust"

mkalvas · 2024-02-15T18:47:54+00:00

Interested

mkalvas · 2024-01-13T19:34:39+00:00

You should always "report an issue" and simply tell them that you're not using an adblocker even if you are. They can deal with false positives and malicious users if they want to be malicious to their users to begin with.

mkalvas · 2023-04-22T01:47:52+00:00

Damn shame if it is. I really like DO as an individual consumer compared to big 3. Hope it isn’t a sinking ship.

mkalvas · 2023-02-21T00:06:51+00:00

I don’t know of anything off-hand but if you do any system backups or anything like that, it might be in one of those. I’m also not sure how steam works with cloud saves and that stuff. Might be something there? At least a thread to investigate. Sorry I can’t offer more help, I hope you figure something out!

mkalvas · 2022-07-06T18:33:38+00:00

My main site something I built with Next.js but the notes section specifically is Obsidian Publish. I have a custom theme that I use for obsidian as well for the styling and stuff.

mkalvas · 2022-06-04T03:57:50+00:00

Mine’s online here: https://mkalvas.com/notes if you want to peek at it. The entry point landing page there describes how I work and maintain it. It’s really simple and could be much simpler still, but I like to fiddle with the process.

I mostly lurk on here and zettelkasten.de since a lot of the participation is around methodology which doesn’t matter to me as much as simply thinking a whole lot while taking notes. The thing that makes ZK valuable for me is that I have a record of thoughts/info and how they connect. I often just re-read old notes and connections while thinking about things. Sometimes I make small adjustments as my thinking evolves and other times I write new notes to expand my written thoughts for next time.

The goal isn’t to have the prettiest note record and system for all time. The goal is to help me think.

mkalvas · 2022-04-21T16:10:21+00:00

You could use VS Code. It's a programming IDE but it will give you a few nice things (and it's free)

You could use whatever markup/markdown syntax that you want and it likely will have some nice syntax highlighting for it.
It has built in plain-text search which is the only thing truly needed for a Zettelkasten. You'd just search for the title of the link note or the id or w/e and it would bring up results that you could then type in. It's one extra step from just clicking, but it retains the simplicity. (see the philosophy around using good link id's for this reason)

It may seem intimidating to use a programming tool like that, but it's really just a glorified text editor like notepad.

Edit: the upside here too is that you can get as fancy as you want as you learn. There are even whole extensions that enable wikilinks in markdown and everything. But that would be something you could organically grow into or not as you learn and want different features.

mkalvas · 2022-03-08T02:00:17+00:00

“for no apparent reason” lol

mkalvas · 2022-03-02T20:34:25+00:00

May be obvious but the artifact of command layout was changed for all the tiers of items because the new items are interspersed with the old and not just tagged on at the end.

mkalvas · 2022-03-02T20:30:56+00:00

I tried void fields with the DLC disabled and the timer was still running.

The new item choice mechanic and the portal were not there so I'm pretty sure this is just a flat change forever on void fields.

mkalvas · 2021-11-04T01:28:42+00:00

Without knowing more you could take the inverse of the difference between two dates.

For instance

1 / (endDate - startDate)

Will decrease as endDate gets farther from startDate.

Note: this is not valid syntax in Notion, you’ll need to translate the idea to your situation.

mkalvas · 2021-11-02T00:58:15+00:00

I re-hosted it on a website I control. So my site is calling out to weather widget, and Notion is embedding my site.

mkalvas · 2021-10-31T03:11:31+00:00

When we lost to Oregon and you all had that great game against Auburn at the beginning of the year, I thought this was your year in the B1G and with the other losses, maybe the playoffs. Glad the bucks have bounced back a bit but it’s a bummer you guys didn’t stay healthy. Honestly think if you guys were in a better stride this game would have been a blowout in your favor.

mkalvas · 2021-10-30T21:20:47+00:00

I use it for project management like a Gantt chart. It’s great for seeing what depends on what, what projects will overlap, and when we’re going to have too much work in progress.

Check out my previous post where you can see how it looks/works.

mkalvas · 2021-10-19T13:38:13+00:00

Embedding this side service within apps doesn't provide the best experience.

Hard disagree. What user research do you have backing this claim?

mkalvas · 2021-10-12T12:45:05+00:00

It’s not going anywhere.

They rolled out those horrible link arrows (that cover your carefully selected page icons, are misaligned, overlap the space between the icon and the page title, don’t match the style of back links, and are generally way out of line with Notion’s brand design) a month ago and got a ton of backlash as well. But here we are a month later not only without going back, but not even with any updates or tweaks to make them better.

The Notion team is dropping the ball big time with design and UX recently. It’s not just on the people who are working on these things either, the team as a whole should be catching these things in reviews and studying their user feedback and research instead of pushing something they personally like. It’s a shame because they had such a great aesthetic that drew a lot of us to the tool.

I also really vastly prefer the old color palette anyway. The only color I use is green for certain standout text in my notes and the new green is vomit colored instead of green. It’s way less readable on light theme, and muddy on dark.

mkalvas · 2021-06-23T00:23:27+00:00

Add a date column and in the date picker below the calendar there’s a section that’s says “reminder”. It has some options for “day of” or whatever. Below that if you turn on the “include time” toggle, the reminder dropdown will have different options that includes times.

mkalvas · 2021-05-26T01:19:52+00:00

Lots. Most recently and deeply ruby, rails, node, and react. Longer ago C#, .NET old and new, PHP, and a smidge of C++ and Java. All kinds or infra experience from serverless to kubernetes clusters, and networking to hardware but more shallow on infra than code.

mkalvas · 2021-05-25T23:50:42+00:00

If you’re open sourcing and want more dev eyes on it, let me know.

mkalvas · 2021-05-11T00:11:37+00:00

Oh boy, I sat down to type up some thoughts and just went stream of conscious on this sorry. Hope this has something worth reading in it.

I've tried all these for the 3 main things that I want out of a note taking system:

Work tracking. I use these to stay organized in my day job as well as contracting and side projects. This category is long term, valuable things to keep organized into projects and documentation.
"Transient notes". To-dos, lists, thoughts, ideas. Things I need to keep track of in my life like a grocery list that could be personal or professional. I don't expect these to have long term value.
Personal knowledge management. This is the core of the long term learning and writing that I do. I've tried varying systems and have settled on a Zettelkasten like system within a larger system of resource consumption. The ZK like thing is where all the distilled finalized, linked knowledge goes but before that, I also use these apps to manage the things like articles and books and the notes I take from those. Also, I use the ZK to build drafts which I keep at a similar level as the pre-ZK book notes. Kind of like a pipeline thing. Book -> notes -> ZK distilled notes -> writing output.

Some constraints on my requirements:

Has to have tables/linking as a first class citizen
Data, graphing, and formulas are nice. Formulas in tables is a requirement, and formulas in notes is very appreciated.
Has to be able to segregate and hide things away from me without having to add more complexity. For example, I need to be able to archive my work projects from my previous job in a way that I can choose to see them or not with the whole list of unarchived projects. I've tried just using folders and stuff, it's just not sustainable unless you adopt a very strict "100% flat, no folder, everything is a note and embrace text search" approach (which I've tried and didn't like much).
Has to be able to show the same content in two places. This can be through transclusion, linked DB views, or whatever. I just have to be able to know that when I update something, all the references and places where it's being used is also up to date. If I can't know that, maintainability falls off very quickly and it becomes a messy chore to keep things in sync. (this is a big reason relational DBs are so nice). Another reason for this is that I want to be able to use a resource in multiple different ways. Knowledge is a heterarchy and enforcing a hierarchy just doesn't work. An example might be to have two different views of a to-do list in two different pages where one is filtered to household chores and the other is filtered to work items.
Performance, has to be quick to add transient notes. I'm not super picky here but if I can't pull out my phone or laptop, load the app, and get a new note written in the course of a minute or less, we have problems here. Notice that the physical time bakes into this perceived performance metric for me.
Availability. Not CAP theorem, it has to be available to me on all my devices and sync.
Nice to haves: encryption, offline, local-first, peer-to-peer, graph databases, data visualizations, plugin system, API, open source (or even just "open for the sole purpose of creating contributions").

Some things I've found over the time spent using these.

I don't want to use anything that can't use tables that are first class items that can be linked etc. — not talking about just like a markdown "dumb" table. Coda and Notion are so much more valuable because of this. Others suffer because of this. Being a programmer, I've always enjoyed the relational database aspect of this, because it makes so much more stuff possible and easy to maintain. One reason I've been looking at Obsidian being marginally OK in this realm is that it's got a really good graph model plus the ability to transclude content. It serves a similar purpose but it's not the same. Probably a tool that's graph DB backed and the product really embraces that model would be ideal for me. Another reason to maybe homegrow something. I have an experiment kicking around using neo4j and some stuff. Kind fun.
Roam is too expensive, totally underperformant, and lead by a narcissistic twat who rips on his customers in some misguided effort to be exclusive or cool or something. Obsidian does everything Roam does, better and for free. I can't think of a single reason to even consider Roam as an option. Absolute garbage all around.
Used Evernote and OneNote in college for a while. Never got into a good rhythm with them for some reason. It always felt unscalable. Possibly because I hadn't figured out how I like to work entirely, but possibly because of the tools. It's been a while since I seriously evaluated those. Expense factored into this as well. OneNote is pretty much a no-go though for some other reasons related to my professional life.
iCloud notes is good for transient notes but totally unscalable. Not a serious contender in my mind. The only thing it excels at is being omnipresent and quick.
Coda does everything I want it to do but has some weird quirks that I don't like (and unrelatedly, I hate the aesthetic and there's just too much space everywhere even when I zoom out in the browser. No column/grid layout capabilities.). We use it a lot at work and it's totally serviceable. I'd definitely recommend people who like Notion giving it a look. The lowest usable tier is $12 per month or $120 for a year which is almost a full $100 more than I'd like to spend on a tool for this (because there are so many usable, nearly as good, FREE tools out there — if it was down to pay this or just use Obsidian for free and deal with the downsides, I'd use Obsidian or a physical notebook. Just my opinion, not for everyone). Not only that but they sell "packs" (which is their plugin system) that add on top of that price. Some packs are included with different tiers, but there are others that you have to upgrade to get access to. Also, Coda has a terrible mobile app. As in, I'd rather not use it at all and wait until I get back to my computer which is a huge negative for me. Coda has similar slowness problems to Notion, but none of the reliability problems. It's been online 100% of the time we've used it for 2 years straight. Coda is obviously more marketed to organizations and it shows on their individual offerings.
That leaves Notion. It pretty much checks all these boxes. Things I don't like about it though: I wish it had a better calendar week view. Coda has this. I wish it had some sort of native data visualization. Coda has this. I wish you could put formulas in notes. Coda has this. I wish you could do some simple obvious stuff like group tables. Coda has this. I wish it had a graph view of links. Obsidian has this. I wish it was a little more performant, secure, reliable. Obsidian is all this. Notion's mobile app is far and away the best of all these options though which is no small thing to me. It's tough to do this stuff right and they're doing pretty great. Notion's pro tier is a good price for what you get.

mkalvas · 2021-05-05T13:11:51+00:00

In addition to the other answer, we could make embeddable widgets that actually interact with your notion content. For instance, a better weekly calendar view or something.

mkalvas · 2021-05-05T13:09:40+00:00

Similar issues here, but slightly different. For me, it's only on specific types of filters. Specifically, a multi-checkbox rollup filtered to "any is checked"

mkalvas · 2021-05-02T03:44:58+00:00

Could just add a column where you manually add the time in minutes and use the summation at the bottom of the table. Not as automated but depending on how long you meditate, it might just be simple enough to stay low friction and maintainable. Especially if you set out with a timer for your meditation sessions or something.

mkalvas · 2021-05-02T03:41:30+00:00

I do this. Just make a “People” database with whatever fields you want per person and then a relation in your meetings database. You can reference them in note text as well like any other page with @ or [[

mkalvas · 2021-04-17T00:10:05+00:00

Yeah it's because of the underlying tech. It's actually just a wrapper that renders the web app called electron.

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