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A personal website with an AT Proto onboarding strategy

articsputnik — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:27:52 +0000

Article URL: https://anna.pckt.blog/why-websites-ry9euz7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094402

Points: 2

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Obsidian Vault Can Now Run SQL (and Your Agent Can Read It)

articsputnik — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:18:48 +0000

Article URL: https://motherduck.com/blog/obsidian-vault-duckdb-ai-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412126

Points: 3

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New comment by articsputnik in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

articsputnik — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:36:17 +0000

If you want a Superhuman-like interface, that is running in TUI with neovim as a composer and a modern neomutt as a reader, check out neomd [1]. I'm the creator, so I'm biased, but I replaced my previously used HEY email with it. It has a screener and a GTD workflow built in.

Just in case, it works with any SMTP/IMAP setup like Fastmail, or any other. Proton mail works as well but need a little more to setup initially, even gmail (but much slower as the article explains, I noticed that too)

[1] https://neomd.ssp.sh

New comment by articsputnik in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

articsputnik — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:08:53 +0000

I also tried to convert my "smart" phone to a "dumb" phone with ScreenZen and Minimal apps that show no icons. And it works a little, but it will not fully prevent you from using any social media, still. As the article says, it's hard to overcome. Great to read another way. I am also thinking about GrapheneOS to control more of the apps, to make social media, which are most addictive, less collect data, and maybe turn off after a while. Not sure yet. I wrote about it at https://www.ssp.sh/brain/dumb-phone with the links to apps I mentioned.

New comment by articsputnik in "macOS needs its grid back"

articsputnik — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:04:21 +0000

True, I started with Omarchy, but then changed everything to my liking. It's so much nicer if you can change your OS by changing some dotfiles, and don't get distracted by all the nonsense of new features that macOS and Windows are adding. I wrote about my journey https://www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-arch-linux-omarchy/ and what I learned after 8 months: https://www.ssp.sh/blog/linux-omarchy-the-good-bad-and-fixab...

New comment by articsputnik in "Slowing Down"

articsputnik — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:29:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing my notes. Just as information, I just added a new interactive graph linking not only to internal notes, but also to blog posts and book chapters on patterns of data engineering. So the backlinks and interactive graph, after a decade of writing on it, got a new powerful update. Check it out at the end of the note, make sure you use full screen.

New comment by articsputnik in "HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager"

articsputnik — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:44:40 +0000

I use neovim for querying my databases with DBUI and tpope dadbod :) https://www.ssp.sh/brain/query-databases-in-vim-vim-dadbod/

But HeidiSQL and DBeaver are great, and open source (DBeaver even has a vim integration too;)

New comment by articsputnik in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

articsputnik — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:20:52 +0000

For me, it was like this until I discovered the language English. I hated writing when I had to do it in school, "high German", I’m a Swiss. We talk Swiss German, and this is not a written language. So I had to kind of write in a foreign language. But later in life, when I did a mini-retirement in Denmark to learn proper English, all of a sudden I loved reading more, started listening to podcasts, and started writing.

It was through the language of English that I got to love writing and reading (mostly Audible). It was Writing in a Foreign Language again, but this time, it fitted more to my style, also because it’s straight to the point and you have so many of the same words to explain a specific sentence so well. I wrote more at https://www.ssp.sh/brain/writing-in-a-foreign-language just in case of interest.

We got attacked via GitHub PRs

articsputnik — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blef.fr/someone-tried-to-hack-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320370

Points: 2

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New comment by articsputnik in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

articsputnik — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:47:05 +0000

> This website has been temporarily rate limited

Did he move also the CDN stack? :)

New comment by articsputnik in "I hate soldering"

articsputnik — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:25:37 +0000

Nice poem.

New comment by articsputnik in "Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax"

articsputnik — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:26:25 +0000

This is what they want you to believe, sure, it will help in the short-term. But when switching, losing most of them, and losing your content (if not moved with you), but all the domain ranking, is much bigger. And the real discovery happens on social media or through writing high-quality content that will always be shared or discovered. But all of this applies to blogging, newsletters only, like sending your thoughts via email, is OK, but a real blog, I'd want on my own domain/website.

New comment by articsputnik in "Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax"

articsputnik — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:56:52 +0000

None paywal link: https://archive.ph/bmX1d

I loved the open web quote: "The more important thing is that we have a home on the open web that we control, and whatever anti-creator changes Substack is forced to make in the future to live up to its valuation we won't be affected by."

To me, I always said to have your own website and domain. Because platforms come and go. I have experienced it myself with Medium, WordPress, etc. I wrote a little more about "Why I think to Have Your Website" at https://www.ssp.sh/brain/why-have-your-website/ (in case of interest)