Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04
While blogging, online tools often beat offline or command-line tools, so here there are:
They use JavaScript and do client-side conversion.
There are way more conversion targets (Delimited, Flat File, GeoJSON, HTML Table, JSON, KML, Markdown, Multi-line Data, PDF, SQL, Word, XML, YAML) and operations (Pivot, Transpose, Query with SQL), but the above are what I use most.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Every now and then you bump into an interesting post on a workflow you already have but did not know the name for.
This time it is [Wayback/Archive] Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method which has this nice definition:
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.
I thought a bit about it and it feels quite a bit like this blog: the ~5k draft posts at the time of writing are similar to a Zettelkasten: short notes with title and links either internally or externally.
These drafts are private, but the actual blog posts are either public (already published: some 8k at the time of writing) or queued for publication (some 2 years at the time of writing).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22
Many Markdown documents on GitHub have three dashes (---) at the top (and rendered a horizontal table displays).
I didn’t know this markdown construct, and it appears to be GitHub specific: it is a way to render YAML metadata (for instance used while blogging).
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] three dashes table markdown – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents | The GitHub Blog.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04
I quote the last tweets in the series starting with [Wayback/Archive] Jack Rhysider on Twitter: “If you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging. 🧵👇”
1…17.
So to recap. By blogging you will become a better writer and communicator, learn the concepts better, open new opportunities, have a fantastic notebook for self reference, maybe make money, become appreciated by more people, and show off your IT skills.
So how do you get started? Try these: WordPress, Jekyll, Ghost, Hugo, Medium, Wix, Squarespace. I really don’t care what you use. Just jump in and start blogging. You can always move everything to a different place later. Good luck and I hope to see some new bloggers from this.
and a few ones that came up in the responses:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/23
A long time ago, when just recovering from my december 2019 rectum cancer radiation treatments, I asked what Hugo was, to which tiara fan Jenn happily replied “[Archive] Jenn on Twitter: “It is a static website engine written in Go, … ““.
Like me, writing down or trying stuff is her way to remember things: [Archive] Jenn on Twitter: “For some reason, handwriting terminal commands helps to cement them in my head.… “
In 2021, Isotopp moved over to Hugo and I kindly asked if in the future he would help me out if I wanted to move from WordPress to Hugo.
The thread:
I will need to find a way to schedule posts though.
Note I archived Isotopp’s full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.
–jeroen
https://twitter.com/geekgalgroks/status/1213574787785744384
It is a static website engine written in Go, https://t.co/msgP26rYRM
Related tweets in August 2020:
https://twitter.com/isotopp/status/1299319847617286146
Wo ich arbeite scheint alles auf ein Markdown im Git und eine Variante von Hugo, Jekyll oder ähnlich zu konvergieren.
https://twitter.com/mausdompteur/status/1299320903524851713
Gitlab Pages für Gitlab Häuser, die nicht schon Jira haben. Mit Web IDE ist das online und Inline zu bedienen.
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