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Nice, this seems interesting. I don't use Obsidian (I use Logseq) but this has given me a couple of ideas for a CRM I am building (it's currently in a Personal Relationship manager phase which I've found useful for about a year or two).

Thanks for sharing.


I also thought the same thing. Had to double take and scroll to see I'm not alone. It's an interesting phenomenon, I suspect the title was too on the nose that it invokes an immediate reaction.

Anyways, I wish more people commented on what's actually in the article - i've observed what OP is complaining about happening in whatsapp groups too esp when there is a difference of opinion; people defer to calling Meta's in-chat AI instead of giving a bit more effort and stating _their_ view.


I'm still working on basi[0], a Playwright alternative syntax/tool. I am curious about using LightPanda as an optional headless browser for it and wrote about it here[1]

[0]: https://github.com/zikani03/basi [1]: https://code.zikani.me/using-the-zig-built-lightpanda-browse...


Postgres can definitely handle a lot of use cases; background job scheduling always had me tempted to reach for something like rabbitmq but so far happy enough with riverqueue[0] for Go projects.

[0]: https://riverqueue.com/


Where I come from (Malawi, Africa), WhatsApp is so widespread that most people prefer it over email - to the extent that people don't really check their e-mails unless it's required for work or they are applying for something. For most people, WhatsApp is the de-facto communication channel.

I help moderate a community of developers and we hit the whatsapp group limit of 1024 members and sometimes have to wait for someone to leave (intentionally or accidentally) before we can add new members. We've tried to move people onto "better" platforms like Discord or Slack but we always end up coming back to WhatsApp which is subsidized via MNOs (mobile network operators) social media data/internet bundles and for the fact that most people are just stuck on whatsapp.


> "Buying tools for the thing is not doing the thing."

This one hit me right in the feels, I have been buying more woodworking/DIY tools than the projects I've worked on with them.


https://zikani.me - My site

https://code.zikani.me - My Hashnode Blog (planning to self-host soon)

https://blog.nndi.cloud - My startup's blog


Hi Eric, this is very nice work! I played with this and love the idea and execution. I have had similar thoughts about how chatting with AI seems to lack some of the elements you mention that we get from talking to other people.

I appreciate that you've made it open source and will be checking out the code and maybe that can get me to finally play with Tauri :)


Thank you for the encouraging feedback!


This has inspired me to move my personal blog to Hugo aswell. I have been using Hashnode[0] for the past few years and while it's okay, they recently automatically deleted one of my blog posts which was written in my local language, Chichewa and was one of my popular amongst, even non-developers.

Ironically, my company's blog and websites are built with Hugo.

[0]: https://code.zikani.me


I would rather use semantic elements for the examples like the one in the article and use web components/custom elements where appropriate.

Web Components are underrated for sure. I had a need for a custom element[0] and it was not difficult to implement.

[0]: https://github.com/zikani03/hypalink


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