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       title: Holiday Blog Tinkering

     

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       I'm finalizing the very small amount of holiday blog tinkering on the first day of 2024. I used the new journal post type to write up some extended notes over at [January 1st, 2024](/journal/2024-01-01/).

     

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       I don't know that I'm going to write more blog posts in 2024 (but hey! here's a first one!), but I do enjoy having note pages / landing pages where I can collect information and refer people to it. So one of the things I did was add a [Cloudron page](/notes/cloudron/).

     

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       I'd love to self host an IndieKit install on my own Cloudron -- it's a very small NodeJS server

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       ## Hosting capacity as a measure of agency

     

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       ![](/assets/IMG_4451.jpeg)

     

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       > I drew this diagram to illustrate a lot of related insights about agency, hosting, community-building, collaborative leadership & social change

     

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       > you can use this map to self-evaluate your level of agency: where are you currently? what group experiences do you feel comfortable to host? what feels very doable? what would feel like a tolerable stretch? what would be overwhelming even to attempt?

     

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       via [Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels](https://x.com/richdecibels/status/1742494880625016921)

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       Hosting capacity as a measure of agency

     

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       via [Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels](https://x.com/richdecibels/status/1742494880625016921)

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       - 👎 [Requires 512MB RAM for a single app](https://github.com/caprover/caprover/issues/28).

     

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       I didn't get much blog tinkering done over the holidays, other than just barely opening my code editor and making a new branch, deciding to delete my archive from this site, and see if [[Obsidian]] can work for what it's intended to be: a fancy Markdown editor!

     

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       ## Obsidian

     

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       I've long "held out" against Obsidian. I tried it, it was fine, but after many years of rolling my own sites with [[Jekyll]] and [[Markdown]] it didn't feel like much of a difference.

     

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       I've gone back and forth on using [[IndieKit]]. The main thing it brings is a [[Micropub]] interface for mobile posting to this site. And with LogSeq not really working for me for that, and Noosphere not being quite ready, maybe I bring back journals here.

     

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       I've been using and paying for [[Micro.blog]] for this for my [personal blog](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com), and I've been enjoying the cross posting -- posts get sent to Bluesky and Mastodon (and Nostr and Tumbler and LinkedIn).

     

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       I'm going to make a [[Cloudron]] page here, because I've been learning and experimenting and raving about it for 3 months or so.

     

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       I had tried it some time ago and recently re-committed to it in a big way. I've got a personal install I call the [[Commons Computer]], installed it for [[CoSocial]], installed it for [[Fission]], and have an [[IPFS]] community one that isn't quite active yet.

     

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       What about my [notes site](https://notes.bmannconsulting.com) powered by [[LogSeq]]? Do I ... migrate all the notes back here? it's probably a good idea to have a separate notes site which is more ephemeral than this. But maybe everything is ephemeral???

     

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       The other other thing I meant to do over the holidays was install the commandline [[Noosphere]] tooling. I'm in the beta, so have the [[Subconscious]] iOS app, and being able to perhaps use Noosphere for syncing between desktop and mobile would be good, without doing the [[Working Copy]] git client on my phone.

     

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       And finally, I have a [shared bookmarking service Linkding installed on Commons Computer](https://commonscomputer.com/t/linkding-installed/25). You can browse [shared bookmarks here](https://links.commonscomputer.com/bookmarks/shared).

     

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       Do I need another place to stash bookmarks? Part of the thinking of IndieKit and Journals on this site, is that notes-as-bookmarks / journals-with-links are a good place for them, and yet another service is just another spot for them to never get looked at again.

     

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       Now that I've got the Obsidian "unique note creator" creating datestamped journal entries that are more "block" sized, this giant post makes more sense as a "blog". And maybe, since I do have a [Obsidian on mobile via git](https://bmannconsulting.com/journal/2024-01-02/), there really isn't much pressure to move on IndieKit.

     

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