One more month of photos.
A family trip to Belgium, Folkerdey, quite a few things in between, and of course our camper motorway crash false start into the summer holidays.
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
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Display dynamic JSON data in the Obsidian Digital Garden
To include dynamic content in my digital garden I used to rely on HTML Inline Frames (IFrames). To display data from a JSON file data.json
{
"artist": "Luude",
"title": "Down Under - feat. Colin Hay"
}
stored on a server I used the following HTML code.
<!DOCTYPE html...
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Add static prefix to title of your Obsidian Digital Garden pages
If you want to have a static prefix in front of all pages/notes in your Obsidian digital garden, just add a Javascript file to your Git repository at src/site/_data/metadata.js. In there you can define the prefix (in my case 'Björn Stierand - ') as seen in the code below.
mo...
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Add static HTML sites to Digital Garden
To add static HTML sites (i.e. notes which are not in your Obsidian vault) to your digital garden, create a directory in the Git repository of your garden under src/site (e.g. src/site/components). Place your static HTML sites there using the suffix .html.
Afterwards, change .eleventy.js in the root directory so the templateFormats directive also includes html.
[..]
return {
dir: {
input: "src/site",
output: "dist",
data: `_data`,
},
templateFormats: ["njk", "html", "md", "11ty.js"],
htmlTemplateEngine: "njk",
markdownTemplateEngine: false,
passthroughFileCopy: true,
};
After the next Eleventy run (either triggered by deploying a note from within 4-Archive/Obsidian Setup/Obsidian or from the hosting provider, e.g. Vercel), the static site will be available at https://your-domain/components/html-file-name.
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How I handle podcasts in Obsidian
Just Listening vs. Retaining Information
I used to use Pocket Casts for ages. According to the stats feature in the app, I started using it in March 2015 and listened to 147 days(!) of podcasts up until 2024.
However, I then realized that I just listen. I usually don't take ...
Björn Stierand
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About this site
This site is a digital garden. There is no 'stream' of regular updates on this site, neither are there created/updated dates. It (only) consists of interlinked notes which live in my PKM (personal knowledge management) system which is powered by Obsidian. This is on purpose....
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What is a Digital Garden
[!quote] Maggie Appleton
An open collection of notes, resources, sketches, and explorations I'm currently cultivating. Some notes are Seedlings, some are budding, and some are fully grown Evergreen.
Publishing notes on the web in a digital garden differs from a blog in tha...
Björn Stierand
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Make your Digital Garden IndieWeb-ready
After you have set up your Digital Garden and maybe customized your content, now it's time to add some IndieWeb features.
How to set up IndieAuth
To set up IndieAuth, it is necessary to include rel="me" links in the website header. The Digital Garden template can be customiz...
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How to set up a Digital Garden in Obsidian
This is a short description on how to set up a digital garden in Obsidian using the community plugin by Ole Eskild Skeensen. I started this during the IndieWebCamp 2023 in Nuremberg/Germany to replace my old website which was based on Known-.
Setup of the Digital Garden
To s...
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• Björn Stierand
Customize your Obsidian Digital Garden installation
Adjust the domain
To adjust the domain of your website, you first need to set a CNAME in your DNS system for the address you want (in my case bjoern.stierand.org). Then, enter the new domain in the Vercel frontend under Settings/Domains. Vercel will automatically handle the ...
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IndieWebCamp 2023 Nuremberg
Hello from IndieWebCamp 2023 Nuremberg.
This site was created live during the demo of my What is a Digital Garden.
Grief is just love with no place to go
Anyone who knows me well, will know that I have quite a lot of friends. Friends I meet through work, friends I meet at conferences and friends I meet at music festivals. This last group of friends we refer to as our Festival Family. We don't only meet up at music festivals, ...
📖 Tiere essen – Jonathan Safran Foer
Es ist ja nicht so, als hätte ich mich nicht schon öfter mit diesem Thema auseinandergesetzt. Aber diese Buch hat mir den notwendingen Anstoß gegen keine halben Sachen mehr zu machen und mich vollständig vegetarisch zu ernähren. Diese Buch ist natürlich keine leichte Kost. Aber das sollte es bitte auch nicht sein, wenn doch die industrielle Fleischproduktion und Massentierhaltung so ein riesen Haufen barbarische Scheiße ist.
Der Autor selbst geht trotzdem noch recht diplomatisch an die Sache ran, und versucht nicht einem (s)eine Meinung aufzudrücken (obwohl er diese trotzdem für sich sehr klar formuliert). Und mir gefiel auch, dass verschiedene Stimmen und gar Kompromiss-Lösungen beschrieben werden. Für mich aber lässt das alles nur eine Schlussfolgerung zu.
📖 Die Verwandlung – Franz Kafka
Ist die Verwandlung eine Metapher für eine (schwere) Krankheit, habe ich mich gefragt. Jedenfalls fand ich diesen Klassiker sehr interessant und unterhaltsam. Die unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der Mitmenschen auf seine Verwandlung sind einfach gut und glaubhaft beschrieben. Und zudem fand ich Kafkas Schreibstil sehr ansprechend. Hat diese Buch auch vielleicht “Die Fliege” inspiriert?
🎬 MaXXXine
Another very entertaining part of the trilogy. The story – especially at the end – has its weaknesses IMHO (and I couldn't help but be reminded of Once upon a Time in Hollywood). But this just looks fantastic once again, has great acting, and a lot of excellent scenes.
Weeknotes 2024-08-05
Weeknotes 2024-08-05 Aug. 5, 2024, Jochen Prevent the next Crowdstrike outage! Our company offers an innovative kernel-mode agent that uses advanced cloud-delivered AI to detect EDR malfu...
finished the Skyline 21k (half marathon) trail race in 3:39:48! (official bib time)Went out with the goal to have fun and try for sub-4, finished with smiles and a sub 3:40. Superbly run event as always by @ScenaPerformance.com (@instagram.com/scenaperformance), race director Adam Ray, and all the great volunteers.So many things went well. Race write-up to follow.Previously:* 2023: DNS Skyline 50k because of a bad fever from a blood bacteria infection caught in Wakefield MA (that’s whole other story, never going back there)* 2022: 50k race PR at Skyline: https://tantek.com/2022/289/t1/hot-skyline50k-ultra-finish#Skyline #21k #halfMarathon #trailRace #trailRun
Good W3C SocialCG telcon yesterday morning.Minutes: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2024-08-02Appreciate working with @evan@cosocial.ca @dmitriz@mastodon.mit.edu @TallTed@mastodon.social @snarfed.org Lisa a @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org @bobwyman@mastodon.social @by_caballero@mastodon.social @j12t@j12t.social @steve@social.technoetic.com @thisismissem@hachyderm.io#W3C #SocialCG #20240802 #2024_215 #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #relAuthor
🔗 May 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
There’s a new photo journal entry up!
The circus came to town. Frankeninferno. Camping in Perlenau. And a visit to the Neaderthal museum.
Choosing Tools
One of the biggest challenges with tools for making things, even just for the web, is there are so many to choose from. Nearly every tool has a learning curve to overcome before being able to use it efficiently. With proficiency, comes the ability to pursue more efficient use...