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Seth Super Site is a container for storing subjective creative artifacts found in everyday internet surfing. The artifacts may take the shape of written works, sounds, videos, or images. It is occasionally peppered with original works that were influenced by these discoveries. ✌🏼
in short, an image-dump
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@January 3, 2024
Ditching all the electron-based apps except Figma until I can buy an M-based laptop. This requires me to be super picky and I had to say goodbye to some of my favorite apps. I came back to Bear for note-taking since it's a native app and friendlier with my current laptop. I haven't found what I really like yet, so there's this workaround that I found a tiny bit of a hassle.
Bear has no folder for organizing notes; it uses tags. #personal is the root level, and #personal/wins and #personal/wins/career are the sub-levels. I keep in mind that my notes have to be able to be exported to markdown in case I want to publish them as a blog using a markdown-HTML parser. Now, with Bear, it always includes its tags in every note, which I don't like. I always have to remove them before I move the exported notes to the desired git folders.
I was curious if there's a faster workflow than:
writing in Bear → exporting to markdown → opening in Sublime Text → resaving in markdown → moving to desired folders
Then I remembered the grep command! Could it be useful? It only cuts a step that's not that significant, and the time spent is probably the same as well as opening markdown files and resaving, but somehow it gives the illusion that I indeed save more time.
grep -v '#remove/this/tags' 2\ Jan\ 2024.md > temp_file && mv temp_file 2\ Jan\ 2024.md
It's either the extra forward slashes or renaming the file every time it is exported 🙄
The current workflow
writing in Bear → exporting to markdown → grepping it in the terminal → moving to desired folders
Another alternative would be writing in a web-based editor like Notion, Standard Notes, Day One, etc., and exporting it to markdown. I haven't tried the rest, but with Notion, it comes in a .zip file, so there's an extra click and move.
I don't usually participate in creating yearly reflections and resolutions on my own, but I guess I just wanted to know where I am right now and where I have been since I don't know when was the last time I created a resolution.
The people at Tiny Design Club have this new channel called "wins-and-learnings" as a result of their latest online event titled somewhat in the rhyme of "how to progress without having burnouts". Tips and tricks were shared, and questions were answered.
It was just the right time for me as I was finally able to let go of some burdens, so I said, "Why not? Let's participate." I put it in public, hoping it'll make myself more accountable.
This artwork right here was highly influenced by the collective spirit that was shared in the channel. I'm in awe of their achievements while happily walking in my own path without any envy.
Technically, it was just me practicing my Figma skills. Here's a tiny breakdown: I was having difficulty animating it using interactive components. I thought I had the theory right, but in reality, it just didn't work. So, I resorted to Lottie Files. Using their newly launched product, Lottie Labs, I arrived at a more familiar interface with After Effects or any timeline-based animation. You know, you put a marker in the starting frame and ending frame. Then, you slightly change the object's position to mimic some kind of movement. Voila, the animation!
December
Enumerating objects: 5, done.
Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 882 bytes | 882.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
To https://github.com/sthrs
Dumbing down, mowing the lawn 🌱
“Living in a limbo for a few years made me forget that life used to be simple and experimental. I don't remember when it suddenly changed to focus on metrics and extraordinary achievements.”
I created my first-ever blog summary of an event, which helped me win a membership on Medium! Yay!
![It has a Mastodon account as well, say 👋🏼 seth[at]me.dm](https://images.spr.so/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/j42No7y-dcokJuNgXeA0ig/b2fe46fd-e7c9-497c-826c-4198662f2147/mdfd985f/w=1920,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Day One Merch!
Cool duowls graphics
Duowls Kitchen
//simple command
ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4
//complic command
ffmpeg -i input.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a aac -q:a 100 output.mp4
November
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