Tag: unmark
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How I use Anybox
Saving links to get back to at a later time is a problem with a million great solutions. I even helped create an open source one that is still chugging along, works great, but hasn’t been updated in far too long. My current solution to this problem is an app called Anybox. I’ve been using…
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Reducing my personal hosting complexity
Have you ever put off a task because you felt like it would take you far too long so you just procrastinate and simply never get it done? I do this all the time. And, for the most part, when I do finally get around to getting the task completed I find out that my…
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Unmark listed on Awesome Self-Hosted Software list
Awesome-Selfhosted on GitHub: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Glad to see Unmark listed there. Via this article on Vice via Jeremy Keith. In the 90s and early 2000s I ran everything on my own hardware in my apartment and eventually co-located. This…
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Micro.blog open sources iOS and Mac apps
Manton Reece: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the longevity of Micro.blog and where we need help to continue to grow the platform and community. As we approach 4 years since the public launch, there are some parts of the platform and supporting services that should be shared more widely, so that I’m not…
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Jim Nielsen brings back Readlists
Jim Nielsen: After about five years of constant inner complaining—“ugh, I wish Readlists was still around“—I finally asked myself: “well then why don’t you recreate it?” This is exactly the same reason why Unmark exists. Nothing works like Unmark. If it didn’t exist I don’t know what I would use. So it exists purely because I (and…
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github1s
github1s: Just add 1s after github and press Enter in the browser address bar for any repository you want to read. This is super cool. Take any repository on GitHub and add 1s to the domain name and you’ll see the source code for the repository loaded in a browser-based version of VS Code (since it is built on top of…
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Julia Evans on Docker Compose
Julia Evans: I’m very happy about this because previous to trying Docker Compose I spent two days getting frustrated with trying to set up a dev environment with other tools and Docker Compose was a lot easier and simpler. And then I told my sister about my docker-compose experiences and she was like “I KNOW,…
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Unmark chosen for GitHub’s Archive Program
Unmark, the open source bookmarking app that you can use for free on our hosted service or grab your own copy on GitHub, was selected to be included in GitHub’s Archive Program. GitHub describes this program’s purpose “The mission of the GitHub Archive Program is to preserve open source software for future generations.” This happened…
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Learning SwiftUI is tough because it is still early days
Back in early October I quipped that I was opening Xcode to start a new project. I have no qualms in telling you that the project was going to be a Mac app for Unmark. I was going to build the app for a variety of reasons but the main one was to learn SwiftUI.…
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Video: How Unmark works
Today I recorded a quick few minute walkthrough of how Unmark works. I use Unmark every single day (and have for years) to store links to read, watch, listen, etc. It is a simple app but has some great features and so I thought I was overdue on a quick video to show how it…
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Decentralizing all of my data
A few days ago I came across Ton Zijlstra’s post about trying out Obsidian. I didn’t have the time to read it just then so I quickly stored it in Unmark (shameless plug alert) to read later. After reading his post I realized he is attracted to Obsidian for the same reasons that I was…
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My questions for WWDC 2019
I am looking forward to this year’s WWDC more than I have in the last 4 or 5 years. There is so much riding on this conference for my personal productivity but also for the Mac and iPad platforms as a whole. Here are a few reasons why and I’ll follow with a few questions…
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The money problem with open source
Jerod Santo: I do believe there’s a money problem in open source. If you listen to our shows you know I believe that. It’s just that in open source that problem doesn’t manifest until much later in the process. It waits until the software has matured, the value has been proven, the community has been…
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Pinboard acquires Delicious
Maciej Cegłowski: Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard. This is excellent. I use Unmark daily. Partly because I helped will it into existence. If I didn’t use Unmark I’d use Pinboard (for which I have an account that I’ve paid for). And I’m very happy that Delicious (or, as I knew it del.icio.us) is…
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Yes, it is more work to subscribe than to follow, but that is OK with me
Fred Wilson, in A Founder’s Notebook, describing how “hard” it is to subscribe to a blog that isn’t on Tumblr but is on the open internet. My only complaint is that its not on Tumblr, where it would be an instant and easy follow. It takes more work to follow a blog when its on…