Digital Gardening

https://read.cv/shapeshifter/digital-gardening

a minimalist monochromatic template with distinctive monaspace font family

Mono

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trichromy/id6448881187

The SQL database platform for content-driven websites.

Astro DB

Notes are central for rhizoma. They — like blood — bring life to every corner of the knowledge body. For the flow to stay consistent, uninterrupted, and smooth from one person to another, it has to follow some conventions. Otherwise, if notes are not cl...

To Write an Insightful Note, Follow the Conventions

https://rhizoma.cc/posts/to-write-an-insightful-note-follow-the-conventions

— a way to conceptualize interfaces by introducing disturbances

Decentralizing interfaces

https://www.0xshapeshifter.dev/journal/decentralizing-interfaces/

Build a blog with Zola in 15 minutes

https://read.cv/shapeshifter/build-a-blog-with-zola-in-15-minutes

How I prepared, launched and analyzed the results of my first indie app.

Type: launch retrospective

https://nicolasbichon.com/articles/type-launch-retrospective

This is a short walk-through of all the new features I added to rhizoma this week. Want to join? Jump in: rhizoma.cc  Added: - Invitation feature; - Added comments count to notes previews Authors full name when creating a book - Added BCE when creating books and authors - Handy links to create books and authors from forms - Autosaving - Bio + URL for profiles - Alerts disappear  Changed: - The "read more button” views - Note character limit (256 — 2048)  Fixed: - Dropdown: click once to open a dropdown; - Authors now have first name + last name when creating a book;

Rhizoma Changelog #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxLR24tlhs

https://rhizoma.cc/updates/6991a8a7-faf3-4b55-a164-698d841db93d

https://www.acolorbright.com/en/insights/designing-a-membership-program-that-stands-out

Zenful Knowledge Gardening

https://read.cv/shapeshifter/ajpr9yCdFDqEuXpV7leY

books (@shapeshifter) / Cosmos

“A Catalogue of Simple Pleasures” is a crowdsourced collection of life’s small joys. They’re the seemingly minor experiences that are ultimately at the heart of being human. The quiet moments that fade away if you try to look at them directly. Many can be experienced immediately in the present moment. We just have to r

A Catalogue of Simple Pleasures (Card Deck)         —       Are.na Store

https://store.are.na/products/a-catalogue-of-simple-pleasures-cards?variant=43363416080535

Raycast Snippets

https://read.cv/shapeshifter/raycast-snippets

Community guidelines on Posts, a community app by Read.cv

Community Guidelines

Introducing Loco a Rails-inspired Rust web framework

What if Rails was Built on Rust?

https://read.cv/shapeshifter/tools-for-thoughts-essentials

Contribute to miniware/organic_software_directory development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub - miniware/organic_software_directory

https://github.com/miniware/organic_software_directory

On learned helplessness - Tanner Christensen's blog

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Finally added a lab section to my website. And a couple more features and things. https://0xshapeshifter.dev

Digital gardening: my take on maintaining digital and online presence. 
https://read.cv/shapeshifter/digital-gardening

If you did like my new website design, here’s the template (free ofc): https://essens.cc/buy/mono

In the early 1900s, Prokudin documented the Russian Empire through trichromatic photography, an experimental way to achieve color pictures.

I loved this look so much I made Trichromy, an iPhone app that recreates this process

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trichromy/id6448881187

I have been watching Astro rising from (almost) the very beginning, and it was extremely impressive. Astro is the only thing that makes me not hating JS 100%. https://astro.build/db/

Did some digital gardening today: updated my website, added a several of nice things, and published a couple of drafts. https://0xshapeshifter.dev

Experiments with the library. Some of you will receive the first invites to rhizoma this week (fingers crossed).

Just wrote a couple of sentences on how to write literature notes. Sharing bc it seems relevant outside of rhizoma as well. https://rhizoma.cc/posts/to-write-an-insightful-note-follow-the-conventions

Well, I guess I do live in a code editor. Love what Raycast doest with their year wrappers.

What if, by creating decentralizing interfaces one could help breaking the circle of mindless consumption. Shared a couple of thoughts on conceptualizations and interfaces.

https://www.0xshapeshifter.dev/journal/decentralizing-interfaces/

Recently I have been playing around with Zola, a static site generator written in Rust. I liked it a lot, so I figured I could share a sensible starter: https://read.cv/shapeshifter/build-a-blog-with-zola-in-15-minutes

Longboarding + Trichotomy (by @heliographe) = 🖤

I am absolutely not a fan of light themes bc my eyes bleed. But there’s something in a good light theme combined with CommitMono font. Somethings that makes me fly to the light, like a moth to a flame.

The unexpected effect of using rhizoma.cc for me is finally being able to turn a ton of notes after reading books into a few high-signal and dense ones. Some of them I capture in a good old notebook first.

Astro CLI is one of the best out there hands down

Ok, I really like year wrappers. Endel made a great one this year as well!

The complete retrospective of the launch of my first indie app.

I share everything in this post:
📒 Steps to prepare for launch
✅ Launch Day Checklist
📈 Statistics
💰 Numbers
👤 User feedback

Happy (long) reading!

https://nicolasbichon.com/articles/type-launch-retrospective

Rhizoma’s second changelog highlights: invitations, profiles info, BCE dates, and more. 

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxLR24tlhs
Read: https://rhizoma.cc/updates/6991a8a7-faf3-4b55-a164-698d841db93d

I guess I am on a hunt for a new IDE. Hardcore Vim or Emacs maybe?...

We've be working on membership platforms for various clients in recent years, so we figured it was time to share our learnings: https://www.acolorbright.com/en/insights/designing-a-membership-program-that-stands-out

Linked Space Previews [New]

Do you have lots of spaces, like 100s or 1000s (like I do)? Little preview images next to each of your spaces, and community spaces, make it easier to visually find the space you're looking for.

Today was about digital gardening. Updated RSS feed, added posts, bookmarks, refreshed a couple of pages. Come have a look: https://essens.dev

Somewhat summarized how I do “zenful knowledge gardening”(in case you’re into personal knowledge management stuff): https://read.cv/shapeshifter/ajpr9yCdFDqEuXpV7leY

Rhizoma's interface will be something awesome (and I can't wait to share the details). While I'm building, here's the moodboard I have gathered: https://www.cosmos.so/shapeshifter/books

Asking for a friend. I have an idea: to switch to neovim because of my repetitive strain injury. In theory, the less I use touchpad, the less my wrists hurt [or I just need an excuse to switch to vim]. Suggestions, ideas, stories, experiences? Thank you in advance 🏴

Have been playing around with this new template idea for essens.cc. So far I like it tbh.

Rhizoma has just got its first ever changelog. This week we have: comments, notifications, changelog itself, as well as a blog section where I share some wip notes. Come have a look: https://rhizoma.cc

It's a personal project I did last Xmas, inspired by Alex Singh's project: https://store.are.na/products/a-catalogue-of-simple-pleasures-cards?variant=43363416080535

It’s the perfect time to find all of your notes from the books you’ve read. Because even though Rhizoma is still a little ugly and buggy, we’re getting there. Coming very very soon.

8 new icons, and some small fixes, are live now on Iconoir v7.2.0 🪄 https://iconoir.com

Anyone else into terminal-focused knowledge-management practices? What’s your approach/stack?

rhizoma is slowly getting from ugly to (soon-to-be) nice. curious? discover: rhizomaa.vercel.app/

I took a long break social platforms. The good news? Rhizoma is coming super soon. Feel free to reach out if you like books as much as I do: https://rhizomaa.vercel.app/

Rhizoma is open for everyone. No more testing, no more breaking changes. Just fixing bugs, and adding features. Be gentle when testing: https://rhizoma.cc

I personally love using Raycast snippets. So I figured I could share the ones I use most often. Have a look: https://read.cv/shapeshifter/raycast-snippets

I have been using b&w theme for the code editor.

The only problem I have noticed so far is that color is used for visual mapping the code, while b&w requires focused “reading”. 

Two different ways of writing code. Gonna keep experimenting.

If I were to chose between Arena, Cosmos, and Saveeit, I'd chose neither of them.Arena — great at networked thinking, yet lacks inclusivity in terms of free tier and payment options.Saveeit — same without strong networked thinking.Cosmos — the most generous and most visual. IMHO

Rhizoma feed view just got a facelift. My favourite part one is “resurface” — show older posts randomly.

Ok, I am willing to give social platforms another chance.  
Who would you follow on mastodon and/or bluesky?

Posts’s community guidelines section is awesome: simple, lightweight, and absolutely clear. No need for weird bureaucratic overhead. Great job, @andy and the team! btw, you should read it: https://posts.cv/conduct

I love Rails. And I love Rust. Guess what… https://loco.rs/blog/hello-world/

Ok. I switched from Obsidian to Apple Notes. Let me explain... https://read.cv/shapeshifter/tools-for-thoughts-essentials

Heart-warming photo and a reminder for myself: the sun will come out

Ok, the eagle has landed. Status: BUSTED BETA.

DM your email if you want a user account (invites are next, for spam protection and curated growth)

https://built.organic/
https://github.com/miniware/organic_software_directory

The thing about learned helplessness is that it can feel like "the world is against you", when it's really "you against you."

It's all psychology and how we think—and the actions we do or do not take as a result of our thoughts.

Rhizoma’s got a couple of new books. Anyone wants to share some insights on “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace, "An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States” by Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz and other books? jump in: https://rhizoma.cc

Just added a fresh new (free) template on essens studio. Come check it out: https://essens.cc/fork

Thinking about making my new website design a free template…