David Edgar's website

Tuesday, 18 June 2024

πŸ”– How I Use Obsidian

Notes on how one person uses Obsidian

Monday, 17 June 2024

πŸ”– How to do Lunges for String Hips & Legs

A guide, with demo videos, on various lunge moves

πŸ”– Never write yourself off!

Man reflects on his journey from being quite unfit in his middle-age to a much healthier state in his 60s.

πŸ”– The muscle miracle: can I build enough in my 60s to make it to 100

Article on building muscle mass, starting from nothing* when older. Obviously relevant to me.

πŸ”– Blogmarks - Github

A bookmarking tool

πŸ”– Betula

An activitypub supporting, self-hosted and single-user link blog or bookmarking tool

πŸ”– Nelson's linkblog

Some notes on a linkblog. Not sure if open source

πŸ”– Blogmarks - Github

A single-user bookmarking web app. Uncertain if ActivityPub enabled.

πŸ”– Postmarks

A single-user ActivityPub supporting bookmarks system.

πŸ”– Fractal Geometry

πŸ”– From the Circle to Epicycles (Part 1) - An animated introduction to Fourier Series

Sunday, 16 June 2024

πŸ”– How to get the most out of slow cooking with this foolproof braised meat method

Some useful advice on slow cooking red meat

πŸ”– Git repo for ArchiveBox

A tool that archives urls locally. I am hoping it can replace my ersatz archiver, which really just creates PDFs. ArchiveBox doesn't handle html "books" out of the book, it only archives the table of contents. But it may be possible to use wget arguments to get it to go deeper.

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

πŸ”– The empty brain

β€œ Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer”

I have no idea how much of this is accurate, whether its depiction of the prevailing theory of mind and consciousness is correct or its counter-theory. Interesting starting point though for something I feel is important to, if not actually understand, at least have some knowledge of.

Monday, 10 June 2024

πŸ”– Stirling-PDF

Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. I was kind of hoping the convert web to PDF would be a possible replacement for running chromium and puppeteer, but my first experiment wasn't great. The other tools still look worth exploring.

Sunday, 09 June 2024

πŸ”– The Big Little Guide to Message Queues

A guide to the fundamental concepts that underlie message queues, and how they apply to popular queueing systems available today.

πŸ”– How to become a pirate archivist - Anna’s Blog

Anna runs Anna's Archive, a search engine of shadow libraries. A big old article on the why's and how's of being a guerilla preserver of books and media.

πŸ”– Diagram Website – An internet map

So much weird content about the internet

πŸ”– We Need To Rewild The Internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

Saturday, 08 June 2024

πŸ”– LLMs Aren’t Just “Trained On the Internet” Anymore

A little bit of an explainer on the changing nature of training LLMs. They are increasingly being trained on things other than just the open internet.

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