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Trying Obsidian

I am giving obsidian a try, this is a test post to learn the flow. Something that has been really hard for me for a long time is images, I don’t include a lot of images just because it takes so much longer just to get the post out. I store them in a separate repo, I need to resize and compress them for the web so they aren’t so big. Images are easy # This is my current wallpaper. I have more about my process in this post about Obsidian Image Converter. It’s still just markdown # I don’t know why it took me so long to understand this but obsidian is just markdown files. I pretty much just plugged in my existing blog and it picked up all the tags and was ready to run. I now get some nice visualizations to help me identify posts that were not ever tagged or maybe left unfinished. It leans hard on wikilinks # I just finished moving my backend over to md-it-python, which comes with some good wiliklink support. I even make a sick wikilink hover feature that previews wikilinks on hover. Insid…
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I’m giving obsidian a go as an editor for my blog and one of the main things I want to fix in my workflow is the ability to quickly drop in images. on first look through the community plugins I found Image Converter. I set it up to convert to webp and drop them in a git submodule. I may make it something other than a git repo in the future, but I’ve learned that adding images to my blog repo quickly makes it heavy and hard to clone on other machines.

obsidian-image-converter-20240731211310793.webp

Once the images are there they are pushed and deployed as their own site to cloudflare pages. I made a quick edit to my sick wikilink hover plugin for my blog. if it sees a wikilink ending in webp, convert the domain over to obsidian-assets.waylonwalker.com, and clean up the remaining "! " that the python md-it library leaves behind.

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after first try I needed to increase the width from 600 to 1400, the image in this post was unreadable.

This is part of me getting set up and Trying Obsidian

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add quick-tap-ms and require-prior-idle-ms · WaylonWalker/zmk-… github.com
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I’ve had a couple of uploads to twitter fail recently and has been a pain. I tried some online converters for convenience, but none of them worked. I reached out to chatgpt and found succeess with this ffmpeg command.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 \
  -vf "scale=trunc(oh*a/2)*2:min(720\,trunc(ih*a/2)*2)" \
  -c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level:v 4.1 \
  -b:v 3500k -maxrate 3500k -bufsize 7000k \
  -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -c:a aac -b:a 128k -ar 44100 \
  -movflags +faststart \
  output.mp4
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The Verge on X: “Stress testing a snack-proof keyboard https:/… x.com
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all lt keys to hl · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@ce25356 github.com
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