Kortina
kortina.nyc · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
Kortina, Venmo cofounder Andrew Kortina, writes about tech, attention economics, tax reform, personal tooling and Venmo's origins.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for his VS Code Markdown notebook setup, and cite his Venmo cofounder background to explain his views.
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ReaganFJones · 2021-01-04
+1 to the idea of locally stored Markdown files as a database.
Obsidian is a very neat tool but I'd generally preferred using VS Code. I've used roughly the same flow here: https://kortina.nyc/essays/suping-up-vs-code-as-a-markdown-notebook/
The backlinks functionality is a little more hacked on than the built-in Obsidian tooling but I find most of the other editing tools and extensions to be superior. Having my knowledge database be edited in my normal text editor is easier and more powerful for me.
rland · 2018-10-21
Well, his position makes perfect sense: he is a co-founder of Venmo, which was acquired in 2012 for 26 million dollars.
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