My Approach to Note Taking using Dendron

Using Dendron - An Opionated Approach My Dendron Setup Initialize a Dendron work space Organize notes based on privacy levels Create a storage location for each privacy level Create default templates for each note type Step One - Initialize a Single Dendron Workspace Goals A single location for all notes to reduce location confusion Backup for items not yet commited to a repo Steps Open Visual Studio Code Install the Dendron extension I skip Dendron Markdown Shortcuts because it re-maps Ctrl+B and I’m too lazy to re-map and re-learn Run Dendron: Initialize Workspace from the command palette I used /Dendron at the root of my Dropbox folder for extra backup Step Two - Organize notes based on privacy levels Storing information based on privacy level enforces good privacy practices, increases sharing options, and allows for multiple storage locations with their own access permissions.

Using Hugo (a static site generator) on a Daily Basis

Summary A bunch of tools, heavily inspired by Christian Mohn’s My Hugo and Visual Studio Code Workflow, to streamline blogging via Hugo. Visual Studio Extensions Markdown Linting David Anson’s vscode-markdownlist helps keep your Markdown tidy and it plugs into the Auto Fix... command to quickly cleanup files.

Running Home Assistant on an Antsle Nano

A brief overview of my Home Assistant setup. This is a tour rather than a step-by-step with the goal of reassuring new Antsle owners that you can run all these wonderful things on it and as a reminder to myself for some of the more common setup steps I run.

Fleek.co and Hugo Extended

Fleek.co and Hugo Extended I’ve been exploring distributed low-level systems, such as transport protocols, packet-level encryption, and immutability in a decentralized system (blockchain). Part of that is rebooting my blog and hosting it via Fleek over the IPFS protocol. Hugo is my static site generator of choice and Go with Hugo and Fleek is a great tutorial to get started.

WP8 XAML App Development at Build 2012

I gave my Build 2012 talk this week and it was all around WP8 XAML app development showing off some of cool new features in the XAML platform that you can incorporate into your apps. A huge thanks to all the people that showed up, gave feedback and asked questions!