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- 22 August 2024: Development work started
- 15 September 2024: Addition of attachments and titles
- 4 October 2024: Adding Git synchronisation of entries
Devlog: Shutting Down Nano Journal
With the move to Obsidian for my journalling needs, I shut down my bespoke journalling web-app. I deployed it on 26th August 2024, which makes it just over a year old. I did start using Obsidian on the 20th though, so it didn’t quite make it the entire year. Even so, not bad for something hand made and somewhat neglected. Most things I eventually abandon last way less than that.
Anyway, here are some screenshots of the final version, just before I shut it down:
You can compare this with some earlier screenshots documented in these posts:
I guess you can describe the ascetics of this project as the “minimum amount to get working.” That was true of the backend too, which was somewhat rushed and difficult to maintain. That might be why I never really gave this a lot of love as other projects like Blogging Tools. But I added some features I that I thought were neat: such as attachments, and keeping a copy of a draft in the browser’s local storage before it was sent to the server.
Anyway, I’m now in the middle of migrating the old posts over to Obsidian. One thing I’m glad I added was Git synchronisation. And given that entries were plain markdown files, migration was simply a matter of checking out the repository and moving the posts across. Easy enough work, although I am taking my time. There’s a bit of reliving involved with moving the posts over, and I’m approaching a period where some pretty sad things happened.
Anyway, that was Nano Journal. Good at what it needed to do.
Moving TIL Computer To Quartz
Moving TIL Computer from a blog-like technical stack to Quartz 4 to enhance its functionality as a knowledge repository, transitioning from a blog format to a more wiki-like architecture while integrating with Obsidian for content management.
Devlog: Blogging Tools — Category Fixer
Adding an RSS feed parser and in-app notifications to build a feature to triage image posts that don’t have a category.
Gallery: Day Trip to Yass
Decided to go to Yass today, a small town in NSW just north of where I’m staying in Canberra. I pass by Yass every time I drive to Canberra from Melbourne, and I wanted to see what it was like, at least once. And this morning I discovered that it had a railway museum, which sealed the deal. Unfortunately the weather was not kind: it was bitterly cold and rainy the whole time I was there.
First stop was the Railway Museum, which featured quite a few bits of rolling stock that operated on the Yass tramway. Yes, Yass had a tramway which, given the size of the town, I was not expecting.
This was followed by lunch at a local cafe, then a brief walk by the Yass river, which had an old tram bridge. I managed to walk around 500 metres from the bridge to the footy oval. It would’ve been nice to walk a bit longer, but it was cold, wet, and the ground was quite slippery. Plus I had to get home to spend some time with the birds. But I did make a brief diversion to Yass Junction railway station to see if there were any trains passing through (unfortunately, there were none).
