Articles in the year 2023

Five Useful Apple Shortcuts for Obsidian

Obsidian is a note-taking powerhouse. Unfortunately, no app can offer every feature. One thing missing from Obsidian for iOS is the ability to add widgets to the home screen. In this article I'll show you how to get that functionality back with Apple Shortcuts.

#Prerequisites

Before I continue, there is some functionality that you may need or want to add to your Obsidian setup via community plugins in order to use these shortcuts.

Obsidian is a note-taking powerhouse. Unfortunately, no app can offer every feature. One thing missing from Obsidian for iOS is the ability to add widgets to the home screen. In this article I'll show you how to get that functionality back with Apple Shortcuts.

#Prerequisites

Before I continue, there is some functionality that you may need or want to add to your Obsidian setup via community plugins in order to use these shortcuts.

Obsidian is a note-taking powerhouse. Unfortunately, no app can offer every feature. One thing missing from Obsidian for iOS is the ability to add widgets to the home screen. In this article I'll show you how to get that functionality back with Apple Shortcuts.

#Prerequisites

Before I continue, there is some functionality that you may need or want to add to your Obsidian setup via community plugins in order to use these shortcuts.

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Extracting Wikilinks for your Markdown Laravel Blog

I recently rebuilt this site so I could write my articles in Markdown. I'm used to writing in Obsidian and have come to rely heavily on wikilinks. Laravel comes with Markdown baked in. Behind the scenes, it makes use of a package called league/commonmark. Commonmark offers a large list of extensions, but as we will see, none of them work to add Wikilinks functionality.

TL;DR Create your own wikilinks custom delimiter

#What is a Wikilink?

I recently rebuilt this site so I could write my articles in Markdown. I'm used to writing in Obsidian and have come to rely heavily on wikilinks. Laravel comes with Markdown baked in. Behind the scenes, it makes use of a package called league/commonmark. Commonmark offers a large list of extensions, but as we will see, none of them work to add Wikilinks functionality.

TL;DR Create your own wikilinks custom delimiter

#What is a Wikilink?

I recently rebuilt this site so I could write my articles in Markdown. I'm used to writing in Obsidian and have come to rely heavily on wikilinks. Laravel comes with Markdown baked in. Behind the scenes, it makes use of a package called league/commonmark. Commonmark offers a large list of extensions, but as we will see, none of them work to add Wikilinks functionality.

TL;DR Create your own wikilinks custom delimiter

#What is a Wikilink?

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Evolution of My Blog: A Wayback Machine Retrospective

Today I launched a new version of this blog. It got me thinking that I've been at this for a long time and have updated the design and functionality many times. I thought it would be fun to take a look at how this site has changed over time by using the Wayback Machine at archive.org.

When you search for this site on the Wayback Machine, you will see that I've been tinkering on this domain for over thirteen years, since February 16th 2010. I've not been a hundred percent consistent over that whole period, mostly due to work and other commitments, but you can also see that I always come back to it given the chance and that web development and blogging have been my long term passion.

Way Back History

Today I launched a new version of this blog. It got me thinking that I've been at this for a long time and have updated the design and functionality many times. I thought it would be fun to take a look at how this site has changed over time by using the Wayback Machine at archive.org.

When you search for this site on the Wayback Machine, you will see that I've been tinkering on this domain for over thirteen years, since February 16th 2010. I've not been a hundred percent consistent over that whole period, mostly due to work and other commitments, but you can also see that I always come back to it given the chance and that web development and blogging have been my long term passion.

Way Back History

Today I launched a new version of this blog. It got me thinking that I've been at this for a long time and have updated the design and functionality many times. I thought it would be fun to take a look at how this site has changed over time by using the Wayback Machine at archive.org.

When you search for this site on the Wayback Machine, you will see that I've been tinkering on this domain for over thirteen years, since February 16th 2010. I've not been a hundred percent consistent over that whole period, mostly due to work and other commitments, but you can also see that I always come back to it given the chance and that web development and blogging have been my long term passion.

Way Back History

Thank you for reading this article.

If you've made it this far, you might like to connect with me on 𝕏 where I post similar content and interact with like-minded people. If this article was helpful to you I'd really appreciate it if you would consider buying me a coffee.
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