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submitted 1 day ago by drd@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?

This can be anywhere from hardware or software/apps.

I recently started up a CalDav/CardDav service (radicale, think like your own private Google Calendar and Google Tasks that can also be synced on multiple devices) on a VPS. One step closer to degoogling myself.

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[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

"new"?

The fediverse is really nice. Some cool advances in programming, but nothing major.

Obsidian is really nice, with plugins can do virtually everything you'd want from a note taking or even writing app.

localsend is a syncing/sending solution via wifi for smartphones or computers in the same network.

[-] clif@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

If you like obsidian you might check out the FOSS project Silverbullet. I have almost no experience with obsidian, but I love Silverbullet.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

It's wild following the Obsidian subreddit. People are turning it into a whole ass OS or into a desktop environment at the very least.

It's like the new emacs hah

[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Oh yeah. My favorite (and only) plugin so far is the https://github.com/twibiral/obsidian-execute-code

Let me explain: Obsidian is basically a very fancy wrapper around a folder with markdown files in it. (which makes it git compatible, which is one of the upsides). In Markdown, you can define codeblocks, with syntax highlighting, because of course you can, programmers will improve their own tools first. Now, there are two cases when you would do this:

  1. you want to execute the code because it's actually driving something. Like some kind of interactive, "this is the manual, but also, you can just do it right away by executing this code" and then they give you the code.
  2. you're actually building it as a document, and you want something in your document that is actually the output of some program that's producing some output. Like... analyzing numbers and creating a graph. You can now just put the code in the document, hit "execute" and you get your output in the document right then and there. And that concept isn't new, it's what "jupyter" also does, but jupyter uses a weird bytecode, xml zip format or something, in obisidian, because of the markdown base, it stays just code. (which again, makes it git compatible where jupyter isn't) AND you can do it not just with python but with...
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • R
  • C++
  • C
  • Java
  • SQL
  • LaTeX
  • CSharp
  • Dart
  • Lua
  • Lean
  • Shell
  • Powershell
  • Batch
  • Prolog
  • Groovy
  • Golang
  • Rust
  • Kotlin
  • Wolfram Mathematica
  • Haskell
  • Scala
  • Racket
  • Ruby
  • PHP
  • Octave
  • Maxima
  • OCaml
  • Swift
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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