Read The Plain Text Project (plaintextproject.online)

Do you need big, feature-packed, and sometimes complex tool for your work, to stay organized, or keep track of your tasks?

Maybe not.

Maybe all you need is plain text. Yes, simple, old fashioned, unadorned, boring text. It sounds scary or alien, but it's not.

Plain text isn't just for the geek or the techie. Plain text isn't just for the academic or hardcore productivity hacker. Plain text is for anyone.

Followed Jason Santa Maria

Followed Jason Santa Maria (jasonsantamaria.com)

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I’m a multidisciplinary design and product leader living in sunny Philadelphia, PA.

I’m Senior Design Director at InVision where I lead the Marketing Design team. I’m co-founder and Creative Director of A Book Apart, a boutique publisher of design and UX books with a library of 34 titles and growing—including my own, On Web Typography, and industry-defining titles like Responsive Web Design and Mobile First.

Over the past 18 years I’ve worked at design and web agencies, startups—including two of my own, news and media publishers, and spoken at dozens of conferences to thousands of people around the world.

Previously, I was Design Director at Slate where I lead a company-wide brand and site overhaul. I served as Vice President of AIGA/NY, Executive Design Director at Vox Media, faculty at the MFA Interaction Design program at SVA, and Creative Director for A List Apart, and Happy Cog. I’ve worked for clients such as AIGA, The Chicago Tribune, Housing Works, PBS, The United Nations, and WordPress.

I have a deep love of learning, teaching, and fostering community around design.

Followed James Gallagher

Followed James Gallagher (jamesg.app)

James Gallagher

Hello! I'm James Gallagher (jamesgoca). I like to make websites and code in my free time. I mainly use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python.

I am the Technical Content Manager at Career Karma, where I lead our tutorials for beginner programmers. I am interested in quantified self and coffee. I'm always up for a chat about these topics.

I love getting email. Send me an email at jamesg [at] jamesg [dot] app if you want to chat.

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Read Quantified Self And The Indieweb by James Gallagher (jamesg.app)

I’m back on the quantified self train. I have tried quantified self a number of times in the past but it has never stuck. More recently, I’ve become interested in quantified self because it gives me a lot of data with which I can experiment. While each individual metric may not be useful on its own, over time I will be able to collect a lot of data about myself.

I am unsure whether I’ll keep at quantified self but this time, for some reason, I am more hopeful. I’ve started to play around with quantified self metrics on this site and it has brought me a lot of joy. Even if the statistics just sit on this site, at least I’ll know that it was fun playing around with them.

Read Privilege and websites by Felix PleşoianuFelix Pleşoianu (Felix Rambles)
Let's make one thing clear: if you can afford to have even one internet domain to your name, let alone more, you're incredibly privileged. You have the money to pay for it, your country isn't subject to some embargo, and no government has decided to silence you. Yet. Because you don't own any domain...
Not sure I agree with the entirety of the argument here. Yes there is some privilege at play and there’s the eternal argument over ownership versus renting, but in the long span of history, we’re making some exceptional strides. Compare domain ownership and hosting to the cost of having a phone number and cell phone service. I get far more value out of my self-hosted website.
Read Convert copy-and-pasted rich text (italic, bold, etc) to markdown instead of or in addition to HTML (Obsidian Forum)
When copying a chunk of text that contains rich text formatting and pasting into most apps, the rich text formatting is preserved. When pasting the same chunk into Obsidian, the rich text formatting seems to be converted into HTML tags by default. Because Obsidian uses markdown, I think it would be more useful to have it converted to markdown by default (or at least given the option). If that’s not clear, then I hope the following is helpful. When pasting text into Google Docs, Text Edit, etc....
Read Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb by Ana RodriguesAna Rodrigues (Smashing Magazine)
There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the IndieWeb. Build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms. Web 2.0 celebrated the idea of everyone being able to contribute to the web regardless of their technical skill and knowledge. Its major features include self-publishing platforms, social networking websites, “tagging”, “liking”, and bookmarking.
A great overview of the IndieWeb for developers and why one should delve into it deeply. 

Way to go Ana!

Read 13 things you should never say to a person from Scotland (Real Word)
Banter with a person from Scotland by all means. Get to grips with their colourful Scottish expressions and phrases. But, there are some things you dinnae want to say to avoid getting on their wrong side.  Follow our sound advice and you’ll dodge getting told to ‘haud yer wheesht’ (shut up), ...