Ben Hamilton

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I make things work better than before. PKM, CRM, Support Systems, Dirt Bikes, Nerd/Geek, Traveller.
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The #Obsidian canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources.

https://jsoncanvas.org

JSON Canvas

An open file format for infinite canvas data.Infinite canvas tools are a way to view and organize information spatially, like a digital whiteboard. Infinite ...

JSON Canvas

PSA: @apolaine and I have seen an uptick in bot-generated spam accounts on the server recently. We've banned the accounts, but we've also decided to institute approval-based registrations for now.

Anyone wanting to sign up to pkm.social will now need to submit a request to join, and then have that request manually approved by one of the moderators (that's Andy, me, or @leah). This is purely to keep pkm.social spam-free-- all real people are still welcome!

More info: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111953045633249137

oh my good god

it took me 20 years to discover this option in macOS Finder

for decades i've fought with finder never sizing the column width to the width of the filename, which means i manually click and drag the column slider wider. i'd had to do this tens of thousands of times.

on a whim today, i right clicked on the damned column slider. *and there is an option to auto-size* 😭

"Right Size All Columns Equally" is a life changing event.

#macos

Also, from 14 years ago, on iPad announcement day.
This blog post comes from deep inside the world of advertising, from people trying to move away from cookies. And along the way offer a VERY rare insight into the dark technology behind advertising and tracking ("hashed offline passbacks", "first and multi-touch attribution"), stuff you almost never read about. https://blog.sentry.io/we-removed-advertising-cookies-heres-what-happened/
We removed advertising cookies and here’s what happened

Since our removal of cookies, we’ve seen both positive & negative effects. Learn more about our experience of going cookieless here.

Product Blog • Sentry
It bothers me so much that most used fonts have no easily visible differences between "I" and "l" -- there's quite a difference between "Weird Al" and "Weird AI" as only one gets permission for and pays to reuse the work from a talented artist.

One of my favourite graphics on Wikipedia is this illustration of the maximum dimensions of a PDF page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seitengroesse_PDF_7.png

Correction: not the maximum size of a PDF file, but a page within a PDF file. (Thanks Uwe.)

File:Seitengroesse PDF 7.png - Wikimedia Commons

@henrik It’s worth it. And the money supports the development team, so you know it’s put in good pockets (and they deserve it) and we want #obsidian to live long and prosper.
what's wrong babe? you've barely touched your vegan skewers.
TL;DR: an unassembled jigsaw puzzle takes up an area that is the square root of 3 times the area of the assembled puzzle, or about 1.7 times the assembled area. This is *independent of the number of pieces*.