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Written by kepano on 2025-01-30 at 18:25

Web views in 1.8 work just like any other Obsidian tab, meaning you can split vertically, split horizontally, stack tabs, pop out new windows, etc

this opens up new workflows for web research, or editing websites generated from your .md files

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-30 at 17:50

one fun thing in #Obsidian 1.8 is that it lets you browse the web in plain text — the "reader mode" is persistent as you click links

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-30 at 16:00

if I spent less time using Obsidian I might have more time to improve it, but then I wouldn't know what to improve

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-29 at 18:42

goofing around with some ui ideas for kepiano

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-29 at 00:10

music notation is hard for me, so I'm trying to create an intentional synesthetic connection between notes and colors in my brain

I made a new version of kepiano that connects via midi and displays the notes as flexoki colors (oh and there's a woodworking project in there too)

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Shared by kepano on 2025-01-28 at 15:38 (original by Obsidian)

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-22 at 20:51

think of local-first as a hardening function

local systems should remain operational even when the infrastructure isn't... when the infrastructure comes back online, changes are synced

it's the same reason you might want a battery or generator if the electrical grid goes down

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-22 at 19:32

computers started local-first and will go back to local-first

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-22 at 19:31

CMSes are a relic

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-22 at 19:16

Priorities for my personal site:

1. I can write and publish directly from Obsidian

2. I can preview the site offline

3. I can switch hosts easily, all the data is in my control

CMSes like Wordpress, Squarespace and Webflow add too much complexity and liability, while being less customizable. Friction has to be super low.

Instead use a static site generator like Jekyll, Hugo, Quartz, Astro, Eleventy, etc. Once you have it set up, everything else is a breeze.

More here: https://stephango.com/vault

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Shared by kepano on 2025-01-22 at 18:49 (original by Obsidian)

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Shared by kepano on 2025-01-21 at 21:13 (original by Obsidian)

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Shared by kepano on 2025-01-14 at 23:25 (original by Obsidian)

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Shared by kepano on 2025-01-13 at 01:27 (original by Kai Klostermann)

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-10 at 21:22

I have had dozens of cameras but the Sony RX100V is my favorite camera I have ever owned:

• tiny, fits in any pocket

• excellent pop-up viewfinder

• starts shooting faster than opening an app

• f1.8, ideal for low depth of field, fast moving subjects, low light

• back screen flips up so I can shoot 90 degrees to the subject, ideal for street photography

• transfers photos wirelessly to my iPhone for editing

this camera is 9 years old but I cannot find anything better on the market today

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-09 at 20:00

the Flexoki playground is open source and in the repo here:

https://github.com/kepano/flexoki/tree/main/_playground

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-09 at 19:57

Here's a little tool I built to design Flexoki 2.0. I wanted artistic control over ramping while still interpolating colors programmatically with Oklab.

In the future it could be used to create more hues and emulate watercolor pigment types within the Flexoki color space.

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-07 at 15:08

Flexoki 1.0 only provided the a range of values for the grayscale colors. What I have been working to solve since then is how to expand the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect. I'm very happy with how this turned out.

Flexoki emulates the feeling of pigment on paper by exponentially increasing intensity as colors get lighter or darker. This makes the colors feel vibrant and warm, rather than washed out.

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-07 at 15:08

The darker values in Flexoki 2.0 also follow this exponential colorfulness to maintain a highly pigmented, natural feeling.

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Written by kepano on 2025-01-07 at 15:07

Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is a continuation of my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens.

Flexoki is open source under the MIT license, and already available for most text editors, terminals, and many other apps. Flexoki 2.0 makes it into a more capable color system for UIs and more complex projects.

https://stephango.com/flexoki

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