CrowderSoup

A website about technology and life.

I'm on a "tool-journey" for a notes app. It's crazy how much a notes app can drive and affect your life if it's used well and correctly.

My current tool of choice is Obsidian, but I've had to use Notion for work lately and quite like it. What's yours?

Aaron Crowder
  1. screenshot of comment form
    You can leave a comment
  2. screenshot of webmention send form
    You can send a webmention too!
  3. screenshot of webmention login notice
    After you log in with your website first of course

I keep sharing links to my blog, so I figured I’d update my blog to let you leave comments on it too. Now theres native commenting, with a real data model, clean front-end forms, and a simple moderation flow in the admin. Spam is filtered early with Akismet and Turnstile, so my comments aren’t flooded with AI bots.

Aaron Crowder
  1. two dogs and a laptop
    I've had some really snuggly dogs today
  2. screenshot of a git status output
    See how many changes there are?!?

Just finished adding webmentions to my blog and now I'm already neck deep into building a comments system using Akismet and CloudFlare Turnstile to fight spam. Can't beat a cozy coding Sunday!

Aaron Crowder

Crosing all my fingers and toes that this works! I'm really wanting to be able to participate in these communities while keeping my blog as the source of truth for my content.

(if you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm using Brid.gy to take this from my blog and share here)

Aaron Crowder

Hike

Hike 3/40: Paradise rim to Turtle Wall

Elevation profile

Gain -- Loss --

Distance
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Moving time
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Stopped time
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Total time
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Avg moving speed
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Max speed
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Elevation gain
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Elevation loss
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Today’s hike was more business than pleasure lol. I only had a few minutes of stopped time because some days you just need to get the miles in and grid it out.

Aaron Crowder