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one of stanford's numerical linear algebra courses uses Quartz for their official class notes!
i wish more material was taught/presented wiki-style instead of linearly
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🏰 Building the first Byzantine Fault Tolerant JSON CRDT
A deep dive into what CRDTs are, how CRDTs are different from traditional consensus, what makes them tick, and how we can adapt them to tolerate malicious actors
Post:
Code:
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Introducing the long-awaited Quartz 4: a new static site generator for digital gardens :)
Docs:
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introducing... cursor-chat! a lightweight (31.8kB) library for cursor chat à la Figma
playing around with ideas for digital co-existing + presence and built a library which you can add to your website in just 5 (!!!) lines of code :))
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⇥ TabSpace
Tired of Momentum? Introducing TabSpace: A beautiful new tab replacement that gives you your very own scratch space to help you stay organized and focused
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working on personal site feels like moving furniture around in my own lil digital space, changing typography and colours feels like repainting the walls
i want digital spaces to feel lived in! not sterile
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I’m realizing that I never formally announced what I was working on this summer so consider this an announcement that I'm doing independent research focused on how we can enable data-neutrality on a web dominated by data moats :))
Here's a peak into what I'm looking into:
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someone finally made a hypertext version of A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander👀i tried doing a version of this a while ago but didn't make any meaningful progress so I'm super glad someone else did it (and with Quartz no less!)
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I wrote about taste: how beauty helps us notice more deeply, taste as conviction, and how we might cultivate it for ourselves
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Quartz won Gems of the Year 2023: Best Obsidian Tool!!
thanks to everyone who voted, it honestly feels kind of surreal! Quartz has been around for 3 years now and has hit 4.1k stars, 110 unique contributors, and almost 10k sites made and *still* continues to grow
Today we're honoring 22 of the best Obsidian community projects of 2023 ✨
A total of 287 projects were nominated, including plugins, themes, tools, content, and templates.
With the voting complete, we're excited to share the winners:
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A year ago, I told myself that if I ever found an idea I had high conviction in, I would drop everything to give it a fair shot.
As the summer comes to a close, I wrote some words reflecting on independent research:
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making silly tools just for you and your friends >>>
truly one of the most joyous parts of programming is being able to just spin things you want into existence
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s/o
@socraticainfo
team for starting something generationally significant, it brings so much meaning in my life to play a small part in hosting
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an excerpt from today's little research log... shoutout to
@morgallant
@aadillpickle
@TheDavidZhou
@jzlegion
for your incredible generosity, it really means so much <3
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Took some time to write up a proper blog post on my process of converting a React + React Router app over to Next.js and
@vercel
on my blog!
Featuring
• Learning Next.js in 6h
• Why Next.js (CSR vs SSR vs SSG)
• Why I switched from Firebase Hosting
📚:
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It's been a long way since my first hackathon back in 2018 but here we are now :') I’m incredibly honoured to have been selected as one of the
@MLHacks
Top 50 hackers of 2021! Couldn't have done it without the fam at
@nwplusubc
<3
#MLHTop50
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Quartz has recently passed 500+ stars and 100 members in the community Discord and this RIDICULOUS donation just came in!!!!
this $300 means SO much more than all the money I've made working at other companies
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what if you had a little desk upon which to open all of your links?
spending ridiculous amounts of time doing whimsical animations like these with
@spencerc99
has been so fun
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My reflections on how we can hack the hackathon:
tldr; I've been thinking about how corporate hackathons have become and how we can reinvent them to focus on hackers again. Let's bring back play!
(after writing ~3.8k words, 280 chars is surprisingly hard)
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Presenting portal, a zero-config, p2p, encrypted, live folder syncing tool that respects your .gitignore! Perfect for syncing photos/videos/code between many devices without using tools like GitHub, Email, or Google Photos.
🔗
#opensource
Thread (1/n)
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hey mtv welcome to my crib
Yearly website renovation! Trimmed a lot of stuff I felt wasn't super useful and put more of an emphasis on the digital gardening side of things this time around
It's a bit more cozy now :))
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read pdfs with friends under the shade of a tree, highlighters and pens in hand :))
So
@_jzhao
and I have an idea of doing "PDFs in the Park" in San Francisco. Bring your favorite research paper, print multiple copies, and assorted highlighters to share ideas.
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learning and playing music with friends >>>
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Quartz was nominated for Gems of the Year 2023: Best Obsidian Tool :')
If you've used Quartz at any point, I'd really appreciate your support!
Thanks to everyone who nominated projects for Gems of the Year 2023. Now it's time to vote! Join us on Discord to cast your votes.
This year we are honoring plugins, themes, tools, and content that have never been recognized in any of our previous awards.
Our categories this
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real discussion at work:
> we should do it in rust right?
> yeah, the white house said so
> ok cool we’re doing our part
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mapped out all the people on , turns out we are all just one giant brain
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Introducing Quartz, a tool to easily create and publish a public digital garden for free. Best part yet? You don't even need a website!
Happy to help anyone get Quartz setup! Just DM :)
⏫
🔗
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normalize gifting silly websites to people <3
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nothing like writing implementations of distributed systems to breakcore
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The nature of my independent research and open source work means that I care a lot about enabling others to have more agency on the web
Today, we are announcing v1 of the Distributed Press API which radically simplify deploying to the distributed web
🔊We’re thrilled to release Distributed Press v1! 🔊
We introduce two major features that radically simplifies the process of publishing to the decentralized web (dweb)—for now, that means two prominent dweb protocols
@IPFS
and
@holepunch_to
(1/9)
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turns out i got a bit too excited last time and posted earlier than i should have but !!!
im gonna be a part of
@joininteract
's 2021 Fellowship Cohort :)) the community has been nothing but wonderful so far and I can't wait to meet more of these incredible people
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this family truly means so much to me :')) thank you
@nwplusubc
for being my home for the past 3 years, I wouldn't be who I am today without y'all <3
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i made my own little Pattern Language collection, just as Christopher Alexander intended 🏛️
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another weekend, another project :)) gonna turn my digital garden into a whole 3d experience (idea from
@SebastianCrossa
) thread while i build things
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Quartz v3.3 just dropped with contributions from 13 different people!!
Some major features :))
- Semantic search with
@OperandAI
(s/o
@morgallant
)
- SPA Routing with (s/o
@aidenybai
)
- Improved graph rendering
- Admonition-style callout support
- i18n
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Interact is such a wonderful community of people — so full of curiosity, ambition, and kindness. I'm so thankful I've had the chance to build, think, and learn alongside such wonderful people and I highly encourage you apply!
Applications are now open for the 2022 Interact Fellowship!
Learn more and apply here by February 15th: .
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Collaborated with some wonderful people w/
@joininteract
's support in poking at the nebulous questions of what play is and what encourages more of it. We wrapped up a week ago and we're finally ready to share our artifact with the world!
🏕
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self-care is spending a few hours making your editor look real nice instead of doing anything productive 🥰🥰🥰
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Wrote about context collapse, why it's bad, and why we should be ok with being different people on different platforms! It was really difficult for me to figure out how to word this one properly but I think it turned out ok :')
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I spoke about some of my work with Quartz, SSGs, and the broader open source ecosystem :) Thanks Mike for reaching out and asking awesome questions
Building digital gardens, open-source tooling, and the static site generator, Quartz 🪴
@_jzhao
and
@mikeneumegen
sat down recently to have a very interesting conversation about all of the above!
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what might networks that enable experimentation and agency look like?
making some slides for a talk :))
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prof: "ill give you 10 seconds to copy what's on the whiteboard"
the whiteboard:
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i've been thinking a lot about companionship, love, and time recently :))
on choosing the losing side against entropy and time -- nothing stops
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in many ways, web design feels like poetry because you not only get to play with the content, but the form as well — crafting the container and the medium along with whats inside of it
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open source maintenance or something
(preparing for Quartz 4 general release tomorrow!)
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a much needed break and late august photo collage (you may or may not be able to tell my love for funky aspect ratios)
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theres something special about reading writing from your friends before they publish to the internet, it feels weirdly ephemeral; a beautiful artifact that only holds until they edit it again. whatever it ends up as, you'll have the sole experience of reading that one version
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finally finished my first non-trivial Rust project :))
miniraft, a well-documented Raft consensus algorithm implementation which sits in at <1k lines of code!
🚣♀️
more cool things brewing...
(p.s: look at the cool visualizations for the tests)
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asking interaction design/ux homies: what makes interactions feel satisfying?
say I want to make crossing off a task feel really good, where do I start with that?
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should've been throwing resumes at companies but i did this instead :) introducing full-text search on my website! just type "/" to search
ALSO added it to Quartz so if you wanna make your own digital garden with search you can do that easily now!!
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nothing like being able to make things for the people you love :') a december collection
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chinese tools-for-thought twitter has found Quartz LOL
#分享 部署你的数字花园
发现一个宝藏项目，Obsidian 爱好者的福音：。可以直接把 obsidian 笔记部署到线上，可以认为是 Obsidian Publish 功能的替代品，但是是免费的。
不仅是 Obsidian 笔记，任何 markdown 双链笔记都可以部署。
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screaming because quartz got featured in the obsidian weekly roundup?? CRAZY
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We are opening our little gathering place to the world!
@spencerc99
and I created we-bsite as a gathering space — a camp fire — for people to share their hopes and dreams for the internet.
Today we are launching our garden for everyday internet dreams. We would love to host the seeds of hope, imagination, and possibility that you feel towards the internet.
we welcome you to join our little garden :)
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copenhagen is certifiably epic
1. so many publicly accessible design/art spaces (awesome selections attached)
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This last week has been an absolute journey that all started from a text message from Jasmine. It has been absolutely astounding to see such crazy talented, thoughtful, and driven individuals come together and manifest something like this into existence.
Over the last week, we wrote “A Declaration of Interdependence of Cyberspace”.
This work was precipitated by Facebook’s rebranding as Meta, & is a direct fork of Barlow’s Declaration, a foundational cyberpunk text.
Read it here:
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Vol.2 of
@kernel_magazine
is finally out!! The core team behind this edition has put many many hours of effort to make this a truly wonderful piece of work and I had so much fun being a part of it :))
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if you'd like to make your own telescopic letter or poem, you can check out the Github repo here:
it features a beautiful poem from
@spencerc99
:))
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of course this is what I'm choosing to work on instead of studying for exams but Quartz v3.2 is officially out :))
so so many brilliant community contributions
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Quartz is probably the closest thing to 'open source' that I actively spent time maintaining and working on just because of how core it is to my daily workflow. Today, I finally released v3 officially into the world :'))
they grow up so fast
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did someone say PAID OPEN SOURCE WORK?? come maintain and built cool stuff w us :')
exciting news! we're looking for a paid part-time grade 11-12 apprentice to join our team! you’ll both learn and do full-stack development and design with a stipend of $1700 CAD/$1350 USD.
apply by july 25th at 11:59pm ET!! learn more & apply at :)
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The Unbearable Lightness of neglecting my obligations as an open source maintainer
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i wrote some poetry about casual magic✨
(i think i am finally settling into a voice i enjoy writing in!!)
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If this is a future that you're interested in seeing, you can help sponsor my work on GitHub! In the coming months, I’ll be sharing more about my research artifacts as I work (including posts on technical topics like system models, Tendermint, CRDTs).
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gonna try to build a cool p2p project this weekend using the hypercore protocol! supposed to be like a lightweight append-only blockchain without the consensus algorithm and it looks really cool
thread of updates as i work:
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centering my days around sunsets :')) life is good (tm)
h/t
@divyasiddarth
for wonderfully sage life advice as always
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@benjlaufer
inclined to say romantic relationships are more about building a life without another whereas platonic is more about building a life alongside each other (with the latter being more a form of witness without the requirement of accommodating the other)
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finally decided to fold my blog + newsletter archives into my personal site!! not a huge aesthetic change but functionally makes things a lot simpler to maintain for the future
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