@nicole@pkm.social
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nicole

@nicole@pkm.social

(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about learning in public and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian.

I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. Follow me only if you're happy in a world that isn't always monogender, monoracial, monolingual, monosexual, mononational, monogamous, or monotheistic.

Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR PT SV

I own and manage pkm.social.

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nicole, to random
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So, I'm going to be speaking at Romanian Testing Conference on June 13th in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: https://romaniatesting.ro/sessions/cartography-of-the-deep-distributed-tracing-for-testing/

I had this cool (to me) idea of talking about distributed tracing in the context of deep sea exploration after reading Our Wives Under the Sea, but I actually know absolutely nothing about it. I have less than a month now and need to devour resources on bathymetry and the Mariana Trench-- and no, playing a triton monk named Mariana in tonight’s D&D one-shot doesn't count…

nicole, to DnD
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Learning how to play monk for a one-shot this week. I usually play healers, so naturally I went Way of Mercy! I made this combat flowchart in Obsidian Excalidraw to help me get it straight in my head.

nicole,
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@powersoffour I do use the keyboard shortcuts, yes. And I just start and add to it incrementally. It changes and grows quite a bit! I don't really plan out what it's going to look like because I'm diagramming as I go. Is it the planning out that's stopping you?

nicole,
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@powersoffour Let me know if you have any questions! Sometimes it helps to have someone to ask stuff to. Also @zsviczian is here if you have any thornier questions.

nicole,
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@undeuxtrois Yeah, it's a D&D 5e class! :) It came out in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, an official WotC book.

nicole,
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@powersoffour Absolutely not a derailment!

nicole, to grafana
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I've been shifting focus at work, from performance engineering to observability, and that means learning a whole lot. More learning in public! First up: . It's a databases for logs with some interesting design decisions that make it more performant than other logs databases. Here's a video I made with my colleague, Jay Clifford, to share what we've learned, including a demo app that ties in Loki, Grafana, and Alloy: https://youtu.be/1uk8LtQqsZQ

nicole, to random
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Another cheeky sign in London. This store sells rubber ducks and was fed up with the construction of the building it's part of.

austingovella, to random
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@nicole, why do you link the titles in your notes?

Like this: [[{{title}}]]

nicole,
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@austingovella It's so that the heading changes if I change the filename of the note!

nicole, to random
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Sign in my hotel room in London. The door was stuck, and the maintenance crew helpfully "fixed" it by putting up a sign. Naturally I got transferred to a room with, you know, a door that actually opens and closes.

nicole,
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@EpiphanicSynchronicity That's what was so concerning! Reception was Not Impressed.

nicole, to random
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For visual notes to fit into your Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system, you're going to need to be able to link them and embed them just like you would any other notes. Here's a video where I talk about how to link/embed to visuals, text within visual notes, and even parts of visuals with Obsidian Excalidraw by @zsviczian: https://youtu.be/lGh53N_Lj2Q

nicole,
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@tisba Ugh. Thanks for letting me know. I can't chase down this phantom hum!

nicole,
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@tisba Ooooh! Thank you. I will look into that too. That’s really useful.

nicole, to grafana
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TIL how to enable the new Explore Logs app for . Turns out the latest versions of Loki and don't work with it yet, so you have to specify the right versions and change a few other things in the Docker Compose config. It's so cool that this is open source and not Cloud-only.

My notes here: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/How+to+enable+Explore+Logs+for+Loki

And here's a repo tying in a sample app + Alloy + Loki + Grafana in Docker: https://github.com/grafana/loki-fundamentals/tree/what-is-loki . Working on a video to explain it all!

birv2, to linuxmint
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Got set up and synced using Obsidian Sync on my install. That's a big yay.

Now we'll start the vs tussle. May the better solution win.

Got to say that finding a good syncing solution for orgmode is critical. And github isn't it. Suggestions welcome.

nicole,
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@h_d @birv2 I was coming here to suggest Syncthing too! That would be my pick.

geffrey, to random
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Been using Slurp (an plugin) a few days now. For safe keeping info that can skip my Omnivore flow. (E.g. blood test results. Or recommendations for a holiday spot.)

It works well!

“Slurps webpages and saves them as clean, uncluttered Markdown. Think Pocket, but better.”

https://github.com/inhumantsar/slurp

nicole,
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@geffrey I'm really wanting to suss out all the options on this space. Why would you want to bypass your Omnivore flow? And why not use Readwise?

nicole, to random
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Good advice on avoiding pointless meetings here. If I've ever given you a Reclaim link to book time on my calendar, you might have noticed that I block out two No-Meeting Days a week. Mondays are for video filming, and Thursdays are for coding or other engineering work. If I didn't do this, I would feel like I spend more time talking about what I want to do than actually doing it.
https://pkm.social/@apolaine/112310968633090015

nicole, to til
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I just watched a video from CyanVoxel about his setup and loved the theming of his vault so much that it got me down the rabbit hole of installing all the snippets and fonts. The screenshot is of a note where I applied the Manila background and gray pen!

🎥 Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAkerV8rlow
🖊️ Note on CyanVoxel: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/CyanVoxel
🖊️ Note on how to install a font on macOS: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/How+to+install+a+font+on+macOS
🖊️ Note on how to add a CSS snippet in Obsidian: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/How+to+add+a+CSS+snippet+in+Obsidian

apolaine, to random
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@ivory I’m seeing a lot of missing profile pictures on Ivory iOS and MacOS. Doesn’t seem to be a particular server and they appear when I open them in a browser. Resetting cache sync in the settings did nothing. Or do I need to log out and in again?

nicole,
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@apolaine @ivory +1 to this. I'm seeing the same thing, and only on Ivory for macOS and iOS. Opening an affected account's page in the browser or in another client displays the profile photo without any issues.

nicole, to random
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I've always struggled with the idea of visual note-taking because I'm not great at drawing and honestly, if I had to choose between text and images, I would always choose text. But recently, @zsviczian told me I didn't have to choose. Here's a video of how I now take hybrid notes (textual AND visual) by default, using the Obsidian Excalidraw plugin: https://youtu.be/zmgqMZi6QL8

nicole, to random
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One of the most difficult things about being a Developer Advocate for a company like @grafana is explaining how everything fits together. I'm (relatively) new to the company myself, having joined through an acquisition, so figuring out what everything does is something that I've had to do as well. Here's a video to help others piece together all the moving parts of the projects that make up Grafana Labs: https://youtu.be/WSW1urIXsfA

nicole, to random
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We're releasing 3.0 at today, and I have to learn the new features just like everyone! (But better, because I have to talk to people about them too…)

Here are my notes about the new features, including native support for , one Helm chart to rule them all, bloom filters for full text search, and a new visual logs UI on Grafana Cloud to make learning LogQL easier.
On Loki 3.0: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Loki+3.0
On Loki: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Grafana+Loki

nicole, to random
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If anyone is going to @grafana ’s this week in Amsterdam, come say hi!

Tomorrow: I'll be at the "Ask the Experts" booth 16:00-17:00 for k6/Tempo/Pyroscope.
On Wednesday, I'll be there at 09:00-10:30 and then I'm leading the Unconference from 14:45-16:45. Come ready for informal discussions about !

ton, to random
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I published a list of note titles from my folder 'Garden of the Forking Paths' which are the more conceptual notes in my system. A little experiment wrt after @nicole presentation at https://www.zylstra.org/blog/pkm/current-notion-titles/

nicole,
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@ton Leuk! Waarom publiceer je niet de notes? De titels zijn interessant!

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