One the reasons I’ve started a blog is to have a place to record my journey and adventures. Each post is a record of what I’ve done. This is mostly for myself, as sometimes I get back to same point doing a different path and its nice to mark those points. Part of an adventure is a lot of browsing and learning of new things. Some of the gems I find are not related to the subject in matter, but non the less I want to save it for other time. I end up with huge pile of open tabs in Firefox. Which right now I manage with tab groups and smart key bindings but its really not such a good system. Also I want to share those gems just as much as my posts, but not all of them fit in. But today I think I found something that might work.
My wife asked me about how I manage my tasks and personal thoughts, so I told her about Vim-wiki. She is not a Vim user, so I just showed her how a personal wiki works for me. Next, she decides that its only true to give me back her gem of productivity and gives me introduction to Pocket. I’ve noticed this Pocket thingy in newer versions of Firefox, but I didn’t give it a lot of thought. After showing it to me, I thought “Is there a way I can share the things in my pocket”. Quick web search gave me this little amazing gem. I was amazed as it was exactly what I wanted.
Jessica Lord created amazingly simple solution that creates:
“A website for your Pocket article archive. Fork-n-Go set up.”
Using IFTTT, you stream the saved web sites in Pocket to a Google sheet, and her amazing repository just parse the Google sheet into a cool web site. The instructions are in the Readme, and it was pretty simple to setup. The only problem, IFTTT doesn’t work :(. I’ve tried their documentation and even mailing them, all I got is “we are too busy for you”. So I took a pick at Zapier, alternative to IFTTT. They to have support for Pocket and Google sheets, but they get each article tags a separate fields, which is useless to me and all their internal utilities didn’t help. I started looking for other alternative services, but non support Pocket. I was annoyed even more so I went for my own open source service, Huginn. I know its probably doesn’t support Pocket out of the box, but fuck it, I will write extension and share it with awesome people who use it. But damn… neither Pocker or Google drive are supported.
I was excited with the idea (before IFTTT failed me) and started adding bookmarks, but the new problem I encountered was how do I tag them right?
For example, yesterday I stumbled on Xpra when trying to solve the sound issue I have with my containerized Firefox. I noticed that some people use Xpra instead of sharing host resources with the container - interesting. But after reading what Xpra does, it seems to me like a neat tool I can utilize for other purposes, but at least have it as alternative for NX, VNC and X forwarding. So what tags should I give it?
docker, remote desktop, remote application, X, persistent
Look at those tags, they don’t do justice with Xpra awesomeness, its like a bad CV. Also what if I have a bookmark I want to relate both, the only option I can think of is using ‘xpra’ tag.
It came to my mind I need to make a new type of content in my blog: Ideas. Then bookmarks will have the idea as their tag too, this can give more information about the bookmark and have references for the idea.
Anyway until I will have new interest in Huginn or IFTTT will start working or something, I’m going to leave this in the todo category.