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I gave up on that. I accept that I like to waste time with trying our obsidian plugins, I accept that I don't find most of my notes inspiring or useful, I accept that if I thought I've written something down that I won't find it again. And I accept that these notes and documentation won't help me or anybody else to survive this stupid life. It's just a way to distract myself and I lack the urge of telling more than 3 people about it (3 is about the number of people who will see this stupid post)

Every Second Brain setup tutorial strikes me as just that, configuring a piece of software, hoping it will unlock some hidden meaning in oneself thought- and note-taking process.

> The person using Claude to analyze their weekly logs for “productivity leaks” has found a sophisticated new way to avoid doing the thing in favor of doing the things about the thing.

https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115926429586705668

@phillycodehound yes, that's part of the reason why I trust them somewhat (long time pocketcasts user as well... and tumblr... and wordpress... ^^)

Trying out Beeper chat app again and according to the task manager it's much leaner than the Ferdium Electron app that I used so far.
Works on the phone as well as on the desktop (I think it's the same base... is it a Tauri app?)
https://blog.beeper.com/2025/07/16/the-new-beeper/

🎬 Caught Stealing

Here quickly outlined how to use Advanced Paste in #Microsoft #PowerToys 0.96 with #OpenRouter as #AI provider.
https://marcus-obst.de/blog/how-to-use-ms-powertoys-advanced-paste-with-openrouter
Copy & Paste clipboard transformation can be a time safer (ever copied text from a pdf with the hard line breaks?), but so far I didn't have a real use case for AI in this regard. Although... (ever tired copy text from a badly OCRed PDF?)

A list of female academics out of my home state #saxony on the #herstory #sachsen website.

http://www.herstory-sachsen.de/en-eva-lips/ (no ssl, so there might be a browser error)

I used MS Power Automate to build some SharePoint intranet app with an external API (#RSS related ;-)). And I understand the use cases of PA and who it was made for, but it's such a drag to use it, to run into all these limitations, these half-assed functions and formatting options. It's crazy.
I haven't tried n8n yet, but here is a good comparison: https://techpoint.africa/guide/n8n-vs-power-automate-comparison/

I use that extension to summarize Perplexety.ai's discovery news summarizations. - It's pure insanity, I know...

I love markdown parsers, the clunky PHP ones, the very fast javascript ones and now the streaming (JS) ones:
https://thetarnav.github.io/streaming-markdown/

perfect for my page summarizer sidebar chrome extension.

abogen - an unbelievable piece of software to turn text (#epub #txt #pdf) into audio. I tried elevenreader to listen to a book that's only available as text, but it's a subscription service yaddayadda (it works well though). But abogen let's me create an audiobook in hours, locally. Given, even the most natural-sounding AI voices still sound sterile if you listen for hours.

https://github.com/denizsafak/abogen

Why isn't all #podcast audio encoded as #opus? At least offer an opus-only feed. There are 120 MB 320 kbps voice only audio files out there that could be a 30 MB opus file. Save space and bandwidth!

I think it's pretty cool that there is a #jquery v4. Not sure what the decision tree is to end up using it, but their api is still so much nicer than vanilla JS.
https://blog.jquery.com/2025/08/11/jquery-4-0-0-release-candidate-1/

Dark mode a scam?

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxOppYJyjNk48xHMgVit5BmwOwjcYxZIA0?si=ipuG0DEIZkAV_lkd

@phillmv @simon That "why is that?" is so funny. Rather than write clear instructions to get it resolved I often find myself questioning the LLM's response and ask why it didn't choose another much better solution (keeping everything vague because I have no clue either :D)

5. let AI script my own extension that uses OpenRouter models
6. find out Chrome and Firefox Manifest v3 extensions are not necessarily compatible? (background worker something something not in Firefox)
7. let AI write the prompt for summarize a page
8. Now I've got my first quick and dirty, configurable, OpenRouter-driven sidebar extension for Chrome.

1. find a version of the firefox extension on @internetarchive (https://web.archive.org/web/20250612103538/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/orbit-summarizer/) - the xpi is archived and you can download it!

2. unzip and make sense of the minified source code. This in-depth review helped a lot: https://matduggan.com/review-of-orbit-by-mozilla/

3. burn through a bunch of tokens to let AI make sense of how to replace the  `https:// orbitbymozilla .com` calls with #OpenRouter calls.

4. there was too much going on and I scrapped that thing