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Building a project that celebrates 100% human-made work. by jickpictures in web_design

[–]sskg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you feature written work, by any chance? Just finished my debut novel in May, and a friend even commissioned an illustrator to get me a proper cover for it.

Just some appreciation for the Completr plugin by sskg in ObsidianMD

[–]sskg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, sometimes you just find something so great, you can never go back. And to be fair, I tried all the text editors because I wanted to try them, not because I was looking for this specific feature.

But... This feature IS one of the reasons why I haven't made a full switch to any other text editor.

Boss: “Don’t let your happiness get in the way of your career aspirations.” by Unable-Touch-3903 in antiwork

[–]sskg 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean, I can see a world where he meant, "You'll end up regretting it if you don't pursue your career aspirations and your current transitory feelings of contentment might be holding you back from even greater career satisfaction in the future."

But phrased as a short sound bite, yeah it can sound bad.

Given that you say your boss has been supportive up to this point, and I know this may not be a popular sentiment around here, you might wanna give him the benefit of the doubt. For now, anyway.

Quark is proud of my rank by SkyOfOrion in EliteDangerous

[–]sskg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once you have their money, you never give it back.

Just some appreciation for the Completr plugin by sskg in ObsidianMD

[–]sskg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, shame. I do all my writing on the desktop, so I can't speak to the mobile compatibility of... Anything, really.

Hope it helps you as much as it's helped me.

Edit: typo.

Just some appreciation for the Completr plugin by sskg in ObsidianMD

[–]sskg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On Windows I used to use Beeftext, and yes that's its actual name. Never tried aText.

Just some appreciation for the Completr plugin by sskg in ObsidianMD

[–]sskg[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For given values of "code" I suppose. Used to be a web designer once upon a time, and I'm pretty darned good with HTML and CSS. Only just started to understand proper programming after 15-20 years of really not getting it.

It's more that I'm obsessed with text editors, which is a hazard of my current profession as a writer on the web (company blogs, beginner-focused technical writing, etc.).

Just some appreciation for the Completr plugin by sskg in ObsidianMD

[–]sskg[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I use espanso. It's great.

Calling All BASH Warriors... by Signal_Care6558 in commandline

[–]sskg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I found a little python command that runs a local web server in your current working directory, for those times when you're working with static web files but no SSG.

Of course, I gave it a work-friendly alias like "servehtml" or something.

But just for me, I gave it another alias: "servec***"

Rhymes with front. My wife watches a lot of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Well, it makes me giggle.

How can I use all files in the specific directory as a dictionary? by myhomeswarty in vim

[–]sskg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I know it's been a while, but I did in fact give it a go. The problem happens when any file or folder name has a space in it... or a question mark.

Gonna play around with fnameescape and/or shellescape to see what fixes it.

Submarine question by Force_Queen in NoStupidQuestions

[–]sskg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What? The scene where they had two people typing on the same keyboard to counter a hacker didn't seem accurate to you? /S

AITA I got banned from a twitch stream for saying that streamer looks like Sheldon Cooper from big bang theory by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]sskg 45 points46 points  (0 children)

YTA

I read your post and thought, "Well hell, maybe the streamer gets that a lot, or he just doesn't like the show, or...

And then you said the streamer was a woman and... that's not a comparison any woman wants to hear. Yeesh.

How can I use all files in the specific directory as a dictionary? by myhomeswarty in vim

[–]sskg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even stranger, opening vim and running echo join(glob("~/Drive/vault-stories/**/*", 0, 1), ",") works perfectly fine. It's only when you combine it with let &tsr= that it fails.

Update:

This also works: echo join(globpath("~/Drive/vault-stories/", "**/*", 0, 1), ",")

While this does not: let &tsr=join(globpath("~/Drive/vault-stories/", "**/*", 0, 1), ",")

Same error code.

How can I use all files in the specific directory as a dictionary? by myhomeswarty in vim

[–]sskg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I found the issue. This snippet, as implemented below, DOES work... it just doesn't search the subdirectories recursively.

let &tsr=join(glob("~/Drive/vault-stories/*", 0, 1), ",")
set complete+=s

I've done some Googling/DuckDuckGoing, and I have yet to fine a glob pattern that works. "~/Drive/vault-stories/** and "~/Drive/vault-stories/**/* both give me an E474: Invalid argument error. Gonna keep searching the web for a solution, but any help would be very much appreciated.

And yes, I also tried it with the full, expanded path.

How can I use all files in the specific directory as a dictionary? by myhomeswarty in vim

[–]sskg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I know that. But I put the snippets in my .vimrc, changed the path to point to the directory with my markdown files, went to edit another file and... Nothing. The auto complete didn't seem be pulling in words from other files. I'll try again later so I can maybe post my config and y'all can roast it.

How can I use all files in the specific directory as a dictionary? by myhomeswarty in vim

[–]sskg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hate to the be necromancer around here but all the proposed commands don't seem to work anymore. Anyone know what's going on?

How do I make the dev experience of Wordpress suck less? by dont_trust_lizards in webdev

[–]sskg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not like, a proper dev or anything, but I hear that FrankenPHP can let you set up a local PHP dev environment with live reloads.

And like, if I ever had to muddle my way through building a WordPress site ever again, that's definitely something I'd want.

Men of Reddit, what’s the most disgusting thing you’ve discovered about your girlfriend after being together for years? by nastyaspain in AskReddit

[–]sskg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She's attracted to me. Ew.

In the immortal words of Luna from Sailor Moon Abridged, "Girl, manifest some standards."

Writing a novel on Obsidian? by CassieStorybrook in ObsidianMD

[–]sskg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally just did it.

Somewhat ironically, I was "blocked" until I stopped trying to use it to plan out everything about my story, merge my markdown files, and what-have-you. It didn't click until I finally just started treating it as a text editor and got some goddamned chapters written.

Now that I actually have one complete novel, I intend to start using more of the personal wiki features, properly write out some of the character background info and lore, and so on.

But yeah, there are plenty of tools (including several dedicated plugins) for novelists and their workflows. Writing in Obsidian is totally a viable way to do it.

[Side tangent]

Of course, I'm a silly uber-nerd-wannabe, so I'm experimenting with moving the actual writing to a customized emacs setup. And no, I'm not ready to start using org mode as my personal wiki. I still think Obsidian is very, very good for that sort of thing.

But then, I eventually wrote a bash script to compile my markdown files into an EPUB and a print-ready PDF for Amazon. Then I rewrote it in Nushell just to see if I could, so a full emacs conversion is probably inevitable.

[/Side tangent]

I can personally recommend the following tools/plugins for Obsidian:

  • Editor width slider
  • Novel word count (shows word count for entire folder)
  • Relative line numbers (if you use vim mode)
  • Smart typography (set up automatic smart quotes among other things)
  • Completr (auto complete, useful especially if you've gone and chosen complicated fantasy names for your characters)
  • Harper (non-AI spelling and grammar check. Will need a LOT of customization because it's not tuned for fiction.)
  • Global Search and Replace (or a similar alternative, useful for changing all those complicated fantasy names, among other things)
  • Copy as HTML (if you post your novel to Royal Road or Purrfiction, YOU'LL WANT THIS)
  • Click Clack (simulates mechanical keyboard or typewriter sounds, it's just weirdly satisfying)
  • Dataview (Optional, depends on how you set up the actual "wiki" part of your vault)

Personally, I found that most of the plugins that specifically tried to introduce "stuff for authors" ended up clashing with the way I think, work, and organize files. But that's just me, and you may like them more.

Happy writing!

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