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Show HN: Notesium, Markdown Notes in Vim with an Obsidian-Like Graph View

Posted by alonswartz on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:41AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/alonswartz/notesium

Notesium aspires to support the concepts of Evergreen notes and Zettelkasten, with bi-directional links at its core, essentially acting as an indexer. It integrates with Vim via FZF for link insertion, listing, previewing, fuzzy searching, etc., and supports a force-graph view (D3.js) with multiple clustering options.Created to scratch my own itch, it's a little opinionated (rationale...

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Re:Amazon Route 53 Reduces Hosted Zone Pricing on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @07:45AM (#3042835)
Route53 is an excellent service, and the latest price reduction makes it even more attractive - but using the API directly as an end user is a little cumbersome, especially for cloud servers.

A while ago I thought "wouldn't it be great if when launching a cloud server some magic would happen and the server would get assigned a human/friendly name of my choice? I'm tired of remembering IP addresses, and logging into my DNS management console to setup records."

Following that thought we added Domain management and a free dynamic DNS service to the TurnKey Linux Hub.

If anyone is interested:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/hub-domains (announcement)

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/hubdns (documentation)

https://github.com/turnkeylinux/hubdns (source code)

Re:I made a script to automate django deployments on Amazon EC2 on Monday June 27, 2011 @06:50AM (#2700858)
A little late to the conversation, but none the less...

You could use the TurnKey Hub for easy deployment of a pre-configured Django appliance to Amazon EC2. If you prefer the command line you can use the Hub's API or CLI, for example:

$ hub-launch django [-options]

If you've enabled TKLBAM (encrypted backups of changes to files, databases, package management state, even users and groups), you can launch a new cloud server which will be automatically restored upon boot:

$ hub-launch $BACKUP_ID

Take that a step further and say you're developing your Django app in a local VM. When you're ready to deploy to the cloud you just trigger a backup, then launch it in the cloud.

Re:Ask HN: What books are you reading on Friday June 03, 2011 @07:03AM (#2615874)
I keep a list of books I've read and highly recommend here [1]. Almost all of them include the first chapter free (via kindle for web).

[1] http://www.alonswartz.org/books/

Re:Ask HN: Microsoft tax refund, is it feasible? on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @06:02AM (#1712029)
Article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund

Ask HN: Microsoft tax refund, is it feasible?

Posted by alonswartz on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @05:28AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A common complaint from FOSS users when buying laptops pre-installed with Windows is that they don't use it, don't want it, and don't want to pay for it. The common excuse given by manufacturers is that the OS is bundled into the price (essentially for free), so no refund is possible.According to Microsoft's EULA, the end user can return Windows for a refund by refusing the terms of the...

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Re:Ask HN: How large is your display, what's preferable for development? on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @02:55PM (#1691779)
Been using them for years on Linux, can't live without them. I use three 1) email + timelog 2) journal + coding 3) reference + browser. With the help of the virtual desktops and keybindings, any app or desktop I need access to is a key combo away.

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