Leah Neukirchen

I switched to Howm about a year ago (after trying and actively using dozens of other PKM systems), and it's by far the best I've come across. The whole design is well thought out, consistent and not created with the aim of marketing, but because it has served the creator well with his way of working (and surprisingly the philosophy applies to many of us). Japanese “engineering” at its best, so to speak. As Howm has become such an important part of my everyday digital life, I will certainly write my own blog article about it one day. Until then, I can recommend the blog entry by Leah Neukirchen in addition to the manual linked here: https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2022/03/note-taking-in-emacs-w…

It's not exactly daily, but Leah Neukirchen's Trivium (the successor to the original "tumblelog", anarchaia) is a fantastic link-only blog: https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/

I have used Flipboard forever, since Google Reader (RSS) was googlized. I agree that it's chock full of clickbait.. I use it in sort of a ritualistic form of reading the news, by sorting the articles into piles. So not only reading something, but also thinking about which piles would match the article. I don't know of any other good link pages as dense as Hacker News. -Slashdot- (sigh) There are individuals who post link blogs, but the ones I like best are rather sparse. So I'll just mention one, which I really like, that updates every six weeks or so: https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/

Semi-related, here's a comparison of nitro and runit written by the author of nitro: https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2025/08/comparing-nitro-to-run…

There's an appropriately minimal comparison with runit in her slides (PDF) from a talk she gave in 2024: https://leahneukirchen.org/talks/#nitroyetanotherinitsy

FIDO would be for authentication, not signing. It also supports SSH (and X.509, see <https://git-scm.com/docs/gitformat-signature>) but it does not support minisign or signify. There's a git module for signify, <https://leahneukirchen.org/dotfiles/bin/git-signify> but don't count on it being widely supported.

> I realize that traditional explicit bookmarks are also needed; where else can I easily put arbitrary searches using %s? I outsourced that. Since I have seen leah2's anarchaias [1] tumblelog (and one of its successors project.ioni.st from the rails guys, I fail to find a snapshot online - it was pretty) I iterated through multiple software solutions. My bookmark manager is also a tumblog [2] and online accessible. I would quickly get to overwhelmed by to many bookmarks and the lack of (plattform independent) organisation tools. I have a bookmarklet that adds the current site as entry (non puplic, and I edit it later (or delete)). It also mirrors and downloads stuff (images, reddit videos, etc). 1. https://leahneukirchen.org/anarchaia/ 2. https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks

apple cider to apples https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-pa… [previous hn discussion]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202905

A much simpler one, but at times also very useful is “git attic” https://leahneukirchen.org/dotfiles/bin/git-attic It lists files that were deleted and which commit deleted them.

Not to mention their blogs, especially https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/

"Analyzing the structure of the Tractatus, we found a style of outline with useful properties that is not supported by modern outliners." [1] 1. https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-12-06

Very early blogs often had more of a Twitter/Tumblr feel in single-sentence posts. The style of longer articles/essays with titles only developed a little bit later. Take a look at one of the earliest weblogs, kottke.org in 2000. The posts there displayed have titles, but that is a post facto artefact of the CMS and current theme, not how kottke.org looked in 2000. If you imagine those titles and metadata away it looks more like a Tumblr. https://kottke.org/00/01/ Most blogs in the early 2000s evolved into longer articles; but some weblogs kept the style and evolved it into another direction, mixing short posts with links, images, quotes and such. A term for that new mixture was tumblelogs. https://web.archive.org/web/20050722001616/http://redhanded.hobix.com/… https://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs https://leahneukirchen.org/anarchaia/static/faq.html http://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2005/04/thoughts-on-vooly.html That was all 2004/2005ish, before Twitter and Tumblr. So yes, Tumblr has is original inspiration in the the early blogging scene and I suspect the name too. But you’re not wrong, another essential part of Tumblr is the builtin social network and the new mechanism of commenting and reblogging. If I remember correctly those came a little bit late.