"The lens or framework as well as medium for these workings lies mainly within the convergence of textile and digital technologies. And for this particular fragment of the work, the focus is set on hand weaving and generative code."
Gets me thinking about possible overlaps between pattern-work, weaving, computational art, generative text and form in poetry (poetic form as pattern); wondering what the possibilities might be…
@yaxu e.g. how to engage in deep thinking around patterns of language/text that don't compromise or detract from the aliveness of that text (which is what some of the best examples of poetry in given/fixed forms manage to avoid falling into the trap of)?
How a pattern(/form) becomes a portal towards something more than the rules that pattern is governed/determined by… could that be coded for? Interesting challenge.
What might it mean, to consider writing as an act of weaving?
After more than a decade of using(/hacking?) Markdown as a default syntax for most/all of my writing and text-based personal management, I realise that I’ve really just been optimising towards something that works a lot like Org Mode…
I often want to open the same urls on different platforms - since bookmarks in safari profiles are so hard to access on iOS I created a @drafts action instead.
The urls are configured in a simple draft where you can sort them into different categories. Running the action will show a prompt to select the category and then all included links - the selected url will be opened immediately.
@flohgro@drafts Very cool idea! Haven’t installed yet to have a look for myself, but an instant thought: I wonder whether this kind of thing might be served with a filter prompt? One of the things I continue to admire the MGCL prompt for— the way in which it creates a really easily filterable list prompt. I can imagine myself saving links for quick opening into a workspace (sub-tagging for different categories) then using an MGCL prompt for quick selection…
@flohgro@drafts Further: I appreciate both the actions you release and the fact that your actions get me thinking about different ways of doing things. Thank you for doing what you do!
@flohgro Yep— completely agree that installing a separate action to enable an action is likely a step too far for most casual users. I’m probably thinking of a significantly different workflow from what you’ve put forward. More of a thought experiment (“how would I do this…”) than a suggestion for development.
The two thoughts that sparked for me were ease of capture (adding to the bookmark list) and ease of filtering to select the appropriate link (particularly in a long list).
There's a lot of "caring" in my personal and professional life: elderly/disabled mother, disabled partner, programme participants. Not to mention I'm at that age where questioning my place and value in the grand scheme of things is par for the course. So: largely unproductive this week; what I needed was rest, what I gave myself was procrastination and escapism. A void of executive function.
Manage to send some feedback for programme participants, support a mentee, and get a bit of project admin done.
Binged Blue Eye Samurai (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️), Extraordinary (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️), and Netlfix's Three Body Problem (⭐️⭐️). The latter lacked depth. More reasons to be dubious about big budget "flagship" properties: the effort for surefire success too often results in outputs that look good on surface but don't stand up to deeper engagement. Finally finished Scavengers Reign last week: (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) BRILLIANT #Scifi.
In other #ergomech#mechanicalkeyboard news, looks like I cleared a random bluetooth disconnection issue that's been plaguing my Fifi keyboard in recent weeks. Thought it was a firmware issue at one point, but I ended up swapping the microcontrollers over to good effect; the left side wasn't sitting properly in its hot-swap sockets but seems to work fine when installed on the right. /shrug
Considering learning Colemak-DH. But I really probably don't need to.
It's Friday, which means followfriday, which is exciting because I have such a wonderful follow to recommend this week!
@ericastanley is a wonderful community builder and leader -- she has done so much to build and foster various tech communities (Women Who Code Atlanta and REFACTR.TECH as well as working in senior engineering leadership).
I have learned so much from Erica's insight, wisdom, experience and kindness that I am thrilled to recommend:
Been meaning to resurrect my poetry/prompt bots here on Mastodon. This feels like further inspiration to get something done on that front.
Picture of tweet stream from poetry bot Maja Rosa-Scoble (@thepoemthedream), including text such as "The poem requires the bating of your sorrow. / The poem is a time capsule containing the perfume of its unwritten future."
This article by #CoryDoctorow from 2010(!) is more valid than ever. Not just related to iPads but for the whole #Apple ecosystem. You rarely own an Apple device whose biggest value it only gets by accessing the walled gardens Apple has total control over.
It's for #consumers and not for people who want to play with their devices in a #creative way!
@publicvoit@lproven ...to suggest that iPads aren't for creatives/makers, or for people who want to use their devices in creative ways is to take a really narrow view of creativity. And it could be argued that the more you want to push the iPad beyond the bounds of expected use, the more creative you have to be.
It is entirely possible to do more than consume things on an #iPad. To code, write, administer or do other meaningful work on an iPad.
@publicvoit@laotang Yeah. There's a Shortcuts automation trigger for joining a specific wifi network of your choosing, for when you connect to power, and more. Might not be the full range of things you're looking for, but it sounds like there's more than you expect.
I created some @drafts actions to support linking Drafts with eachother, finding drafts linking to the current draft and opening wiki-style-links from the current draft.
You can download them in the directory with the links below
I'm eager to hear how you link your Drafts together (if you do) and maybe also what you're missing right now. [1/2]
As noted, needs an update to handle cases of more than one wiki-link in a line. Needs further work to select only the link directly under the cursor (which was what you actually asked for), but yeah... regexes!
If this doesn't get you close enough, I'll push all the way later today or over the weekend. ;)
@Yvonnezed@drafts@flohgro Also occurs to me that this is only handling wiki-links. Could add a case to recognise urls so there's just one format-agnostic action for opening any link...
@Yvonnezed@drafts@flohgro Ohhhh. So we're looking at ALL the links— wiki-links, hash-tagged phrases and URLs?
I'm probably going to develop this with cases for regular URLs (should be easy). If I can access hash-tags the way we can access linkedItems, that also won't be too hard to cover, otherwise we'll have to hardwire that into the action.
Then it's just confirming that the link selection method works for everyone.
One thing that's bugging me is that I can't figure out why URLs aren't represented in the Drafts.linkedItems array in the same way hash-tags and wiki-links are.
Also trying to figure out why I can't get tappable links to play nice in the (rare?) case of multiple Markdown links in one line— they all get formatted as a single link...
@Yvonnezed@drafts@flohgro draft.urls: ahhh. Good shout. Thinking about it, I don't think it makes that much difference for the way I've put this one together. I'll likely leave it as is for now.
Now, if I can just tidy up that little issue with links in my syntax I'll be able to call it a night...
@Yvonnezed@drafts@flohgro Pretty sorted for opening links. The issue for me now is in the syntax— the regex that defines tappable links doesn't do well with more than one markdown link in a line— it all becomes one link.
It's not a biggie (I don't often have more than one link in a line, and we can insert URLs in a wiki-link template to make them tappable) but it bugs me that I don't understand what's going on enough to figure out a solution.
@Yvonnezed@drafts@flohgro Ah yes— multiple hashtags in a line are more likely; thankfully our inline hashtags don't suffer from this issue. Wiki-links also aren't a problem, and Markdown links that /aren't/ tappable show up as expected. It's just tappable markdown links that don't play nice. Regexes + JSON syntax definitions make my head hurt...
@flohgro@Yvonnezed Regex101 is my default for working with regexes! Love it. Still can't figure this one out, though. It's not just the regex— I have a few different regexes that parse markdown links correctly. There's something else I'm failing to grasp between the regex and key value assignments...
