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by pivic 6mo ago
I like Kagi's small web initiative to help people find personal sites: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web-updates
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by pivic 1y ago
The next step could be Montblanc ballpoint pens, but that's a very different level where it comes to money; the writing experience is far beyond that of most ballpoint pens at a sub-100-USD range. Then there's fountain pens , whi
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by pivic 1y ago
There's a wonderfully made two-part podcast documentary about Sly Stone and the Family; the documentary focuses on one song but is really a well-told story about the world around Sly Stone: https://500songs.com/podcast&
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by pivic 1y ago
Speaking of which, have you seen the new Bases feature in Obsidian? https://help.obsidian.md/bases Reminiscent of Dataview.
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by pivic 1y ago
I strongly recommend reading the book 'Semicolon' by Cecelia Watson. My review of the book: https://bookwyrm.social/user/pivic/review/3310502/s/review-o...
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by pivic 1y ago
Agreed, it's a wonderful film, filled with fun, craziness, and melancholy. Just a week ago, Criterion re-released Withnail & I in 4K: https://awardswatch.com/criterion-collection-may-2025-brings...
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by pivic 1y ago
I'd remove 'deliberate' from all copy as it reduces faith in the product; it's worse than 'opinionated'…
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by pivic 2y ago
I believe this type of 'translation' can't help with learning a language unless the person who's reading already knows a lot of idiomatic expressions, grammar, and knows both English and Swedish on an everyday-conversati
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by pivic 2y ago
Agreed. The post is less critique than a weird traipse through the author's head. I can't tell why the post ended up on HN; the post doesn't even contain information on how the author built their new solution.
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by pivic 2y ago
I'm a technical writer. Diátaxis is similar to DITA: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/archSpec/base/infor... On the other hand, systems like these might miss out on what users actually
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by pivic 2y ago
I use this page to create a page with links to all kinds of music providers: https://odesli.co Works per artist, album, or song. Create a login to customise URLs. I'm just a user; I don't have a dog in this race.
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by pivic 2y ago
I can see, use, and download files that have been uploaded by other users. I recommend to document that any file that is uploaded to the system can be used and downloaded by others.
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by pivic 2y ago
I was going to mention them! Absolutely lovely people and assortment. Bought a great 1980s Pelikan M400 from them. P.s. They're on Murray Street, where Sonic Youth used to have their old rehearsal space.
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by pivic 2y ago
I've reviewed this book and agree with the Apollo Magazine writer: this book is very sloppily edited. There are better books about Kubrick; I recommend: * Taschen books: 'The Stanley Kubrick Archives': https://www.
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by pivic 2y ago
This sounds like wonderful news to me. Will Standard Notes 'productivity' and/or 'professional' features (as listed on https://standardnotes.com/plans ) be available for free to all paying Proton sub
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by pivic 3y ago
I only get 'Error: Internal error while processing request.' when I try to run queries. I tested three different repos, same error message appeared for each repo.
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by pivic 3y ago
I love Mataroa: https://mataroa.blog I jumped from WordPress to Mataroa and I'm also using Jekyll, Hugo, Zola, and Obsidian to blog. There are a lot of great things about Mataroa that I love. I've blogged about Mataroa
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by pivic 3y ago
I went from Pocket Casts to open-sourced AntennaPod, and I highly recommend it. It's available on F-Droid.
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Zotero for Android available for beta tests(forums.zotero.org)
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by pivic 3y ago
I just have to say, after I discovered the ultra-thin and very fountain-pen friendly Tomoe River paper, I've not looked back: https://www.galenleather.com/blogs/news/tomoe-river-paper
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by pivic 3y ago
Perhaps a list of bibliography tips? Here's my five cents: https://pivic.blog/blog/technical-writing/
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by pivic 3y ago
I loved them both buy don't forget SoulSeek!
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by pivic 3y ago
Mass murder≠serial murder. Serial murder requires three or more murders committed by the same perpetrators with more than a month of time between each murder.
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by pivic 3y ago
Sweden differs a lot in terms of both the cost of living arrangements and wealth compared with the rest of Europe. I've written about this: * https://pivic.blog/blog/the-swedish-cost-of-living-arrangeme... * http
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by pivic 4y ago
This is one example; there are other examples of frameworks and term lists: https://pivic.blog/blog/technical-writing/#technical-style-g...
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by pivic 4y ago
I use Mataroa the most, and I've used many different solutions, from WordPress, Ghost, Medium, Posterous/Blogger, Movable Type, and Contentful to self-hosted static sites that run on Hugo, Jekyll, or Zola. I've written a post
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by pivic 4y ago
Here's my post: https://pivic.blog/blog/technical-writing/
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by pivic 4y ago
I am a professional technical writer. When I started out, I desperately looked for tips and tricks. Internet was (and is) full of tips but I could not find a tech-writing bibliography. I will soon publish a bibliography of books and guides
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by pivic 4y ago
Speaking about my personal writing, I post on three different sites: * https://pivic.blog : my new blog that runs on Mataroa. I write in English about anything here. SSG, extremely small load time. * https://niklas.rev
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by pivic 4y ago
I love Mataroa, the blog platform. It allows you to easily export all of your content and is very small to load. No ads, no tracking. It's free to use, although 9 USD/year brings a couple of premiums. I've written a blog post

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