right, so as the title suggests…
i like linux based OSes because you can pretty much mould your operating system to the shape of your brain. i call it cognitive ergonomy. and i’d like it to catch on. even on a relatively play-it-safe distro like the one i’m currently using, the repos are full of handy little applications to make life immeasurably easier for you, if they aren’t installed already. thanks to xdotool, xdo, wmctrl, and sxhkd, pretty much any action can easily be bound to a shortcut key. for eg, i have xdotool search --name vimnote windowactivate || kitty --title=vimnote nvim -c "norm 13j" ~/notes/index.md bound to mod+n. it’s so simple, and i was so proud of myself when i got it to work (i’m not really a scripty person). i just wanted to make something easy. then i wanted to make it a bit easier. then i was feeling like “idk this is still way too many key presses” so i found a way of making it even easier.
i’ve got a bunch of little hacks like this. before i found qmmp, i set up global keys for mpv so i could listen to podcasts on another workspace. i have ranger set up to give specific info from mediainfo as a preview for audio and video files. (which windows does easily in gui file browser but THAT’S NOT THE POINT OK)
anyway, the ubuntu forums and arch wiki are full of tricks that a lot of people want to set up, i’m curious as to the ones you had to set up for yourself.
lynx -dump https://wttr.in/XXXXX?u -width 127 > “/home/dethb0y/Documents/Obsidian Vault/Calendar Events/Astronomical Calendar/Weather.md”
Uses lynx to grab Wttr.in, format it appropriately, dump it into a specific MD file in my obsidian directory, which i then display in obsidian.
It is so hysterically niche that i can’t imagine hardly anyone would ever need, use, or want such a thing but when i came up with the idea i simply had to make it happen.
That’s such a neat trick, but why do you need to display the weather in obsidian?
I like having everything in one “dashboard” (so to speak) - calendar, weather, rss stuff.
this is something i come across sometimes - an application can be designed to do one thing i need, and do it well, but another application, which was designed to do something completely different, actually does the thing i need more conveniently, and does it well enough to work.
What does the MD file look like? Wonder if I can use it with logseq
I’d not see why not - it’s just plain text.
This is what it looks like “raw”: https://pastebin.com/ejY8SHim
but i use sed to add ``` to the top so it looks like a quote (since i think it looks nicer, YMMV).
I also have it set up like this so if it fails it writes an error to the file:
lynx -dump https://wttr.in/91311?u -width 127 > "/home/dethb0y/Documents/Obsidian Vault/Calendar Events/Astronomical Calendar/Weather.md" if [ ! -s "/home/dethb0y/Documents/Obsidian Vault/Calendar Events/Astronomical Calendar/Weather.md" ] then echo " Could not read weather" > "/home/dethb0y/Documents/Obsidian Vault/Calendar Events/Astronomical Calendar/Weather.md" fi sed -i '1i ```' "/home/dethb0y/Documents/Obsidian Vault/Calendar Events/Astronomical Calendar/Weather.md"Now, how Logseq would display the file? I do not know but it’s not doing anything fancy inside, it’s all just spaced text.