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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 24/09/2026

Thought I'd play around colorful accents for my sona, since it was mostly gray before. Could be refined but it seems nice :3

The bust of the author's fursona. She is a dark gray cat with some pink highlights in her hair.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 24/08/2026

Apparently I'm already a top 500 mapper in the United States on OpenStreetMap... that's insane to me. I'm not *that* active, right? Surely the U.S. has a lot more active mappers than me, right?????

A screenshot of statistics about the OpenStreetMap contributor, Duskfall. She registered on June 1, 2026, and made a total of 16,405 map changes across 94 changesets, placing her at 412 in the list of the top 500 mappers in the United States of America.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 22/08/2026

okay now here's the actual thing I drew for @voidmcdash.bsky.social's PFP :3 I still haven't heard back from him on whether he likes the coloring or background, but he did like the line art so I think he'll probably appreciate this.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 22/08/2026

cooking up absolute fire for @voidmcdash.bsky.social's pfp 🥹

A sloppily drawn picture of an OC by the author's friend, Void McDash.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 10/08/2026

I like taking photos using the front(?) camera because my phone will automatically categorize it as a selfie even when I'm just using it to take funny photos of my cat. Observe:

A blurry photo of the author's cat, taken from a low angle where you can see the walls of the room stretching up into the ceiling. The cat in question is looking above and past the camera with wide eyes.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 25/07/2026

Yes, they raised over $4.1 million. See: - venturebeat.com/business/mee... - techcrunch.com/2022/05/05/t...

The history section of the Wikipedia article for Logseq. The relevant text reads as follows: "Logseq Inc was formed with An Vu, Huang Peng, Tienson Qin, and ZhiYuan Chen as founders, which raised over $4.1M for the growth. This seed funding round included investments from Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, and ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman."

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 16/07/2026

Holy hell why is West Virginia's OpenStreetMap land cover data so comprehensive compared to its neighbors? This is insane. The rest of the U.S. has pretty poor land cover coverage, but not this state.

A screenshot of OpenStreetMap, focused in on the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is noticeably greener than its neighbors, indicating that it has more proper land cover data mapped out.

A screenshot of the continental United States on OpenStreetMap. Most of the states have little land cover data, with some good coverage clustered around the west coast and small parts of the Rocky Mountains. Even at a national scale, West Virginia stands out for its comprehensive coverage.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 07/07/2026

I wanted it to feel the same as Obsidian's native backlinks/outlinks panels, so that's the style I'm vaguely aiming for here.

Obsidian's backlinks/outlinks panel. At the top is a row of icons for various actions like collapsing all items, searching, and sorting the list of linked mentions below it (backlinks).

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 07/07/2026

It is the most horrid, dogshit code I've ever written, but I've been attempting to make myself a personal Obsidian plugin to replace one I've been using for some time... all because it uses emojis for icons.

A panel listing note titles that have been linked to but have no corresponding note for, or simply called, "unresolved links." It is very similar in appearance to Obsidian's native backlinks/outlinks panels.

The interface of the plugin that my own is replacing. A title at the top reads "Pending notes." Below it is a description saying, "2777 notes linked, but not created yet. Times the note is linked is shown in parentheses."

Below is a list. Each item has a button with a magnifying glass emoji, another button with a plus sign emoji, the number of times a note was linked to in parentheses, and the title of the notes themselves.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 02/07/2026

I am very structured and organized.

A note in my Obsidian vault titled "Tag Dictionary". The note's entire content is as follows, "This note is in desperate need of revamping, so I am deleting all of its contents while I conjure up some evil ass tagging system from the depths of hell."

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 02/07/2026

Quarter 2 of 2026 is over, and my Obsidian vault is now at around 1.2k notes. Here is my graph view: #obsidiangraph

An Obsidian graph—featuring a variety of nodes and edges. Each node is an individual file and each edge is a hyperlink between them, representing connections across an entire "vault" (folder of one's notes). Nodes are differently colored based on arbitrary groups decided by the user and differently sized based on the number of links going to and from it.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 26/05/2026

Excuse my vagueposting, this was the design that really prompted me to make this post:

A redesign concept for Wikipedia. Each article section is divided into separate cards; the infobox is set off to the side as its own sidebar; there is "On this day," "Did you know," and "Recent news," sections related to the article subject (India) in the left sidebar; the bottom of the article has cards for related articles instead of a list; inline citations are color-coded; and the data in the infobox is richer; to list a few things happening in this redesign.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 22/05/2026

Indeed, it was quite the wait! In fact, I remember emailing their support about the lack of a dedicated themes page on their website in December 2025, and they teased the new Community Directory in response.

A screenshot of my email app with a subject line at the top reading, "Re: is there a community themes page?" Below is a response from Obsidian Support reading, "Hello Duskfall, not yet! We'll be working on a community store rewrite for the site that includes the list of themes, plugins, and other items. :) Sooo, soon? :)

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 20/05/2026

Holy fuck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has some really good photos of dusk/twilight. I don't know if my image alt text can really capture its beauty, but I tried. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do. Sourced from: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Twilight

A last gasp of vibrant color—reds and pinks at the center with purples and blues near the top edge—decorates the sky as night approaches over the dark open ocean beneath.

Parallel cloudbands at sunset illuminated to be a rich magenta color and shadowed by dark purple. The sky behind it is a slate gray that grows a pinkish beige near the dark surface of the open ocean.

The remains of a vibrant orange and pink sunset over a purple-illuminated sea at the onset of dusk.

The bow of the NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV heading towards the rising sun, which creates a sky of light pinks and oranges to contrast with the large, dark clouds covering much of the sky and the darker ocean surface below it.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 14/05/2026

This might just be the worst language picker I've ever seen in a UI concept... As we all know, there is only one language that uses the Latin alphabet.

A language picker UI concept with nine options. They are not labelled, and instead only have a single letter from different alphabets. The implication here being that there is only one language that uses the Latin alphabet.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 01/05/2026

Anyway, it's now much easier for editors to see and access, since I changed the layout style of the versions to fix a display issue, only to discover a new link placed next to the "title" that led to the template in question.

The old version information in the infobox. The versions are split up by platform. There is an awkward amount of space on the left of the version details because both the platforms and version numbers had to be crammed in a small space.

The new infobox version details, which now take up the full width. Next to the "stable releases" label there is a small link that leads to the template where the version data comes from.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 26/04/2026

Something that greatly confuses me is the huge gap in page views between the Wikipedia article for Obsidian, Notion, and Evernote. Maybe it has to do with article quality? I have no idea what's happening here.

A list of Wikipedia articles and their respective view counts since I last edited them in the following order: Obsidian (56,405), Notion (37,335), and Evernote (1,210).

A chart of the page views for Obsidian, Notion, and Evernote. Obsidian maintains a small yet growing gap above Notion's after a recent spike in views in early April. Evernote has a small yet consistent viewership—far below Notion.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 05/04/2026

This is absolute cinema and you MUST watch it immediately!1!1!!! Great video, much to think about...

A tweet from user @horseimage saying, "Much to think about..." Attached is a picture of a Wikipedia article titled, "All horses are the same color," with an image of two different-colored horses captioned, "Two differently colored horses, providing a counterexample to the general theorem."

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 03/04/2026

March has ended, and with it quarter one of 2026. Here is my graph view for 2026Q1, with my vault containing a little over 1,000 notes! #obsidianmd #obsidiangraph

An Obsidian graph view with a large number of brightly colored nodes and edges connecting them. Each node represents a markdown note, and each edge represents a link between them.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 02/04/2026

According to Obsidian's terms of service it's based in Canada. obsidian.md/terms

The International Users section of Obsidian's Terms of Service, detailing that it is controlled, operated, and administered from its offices in Canada.

The relevant text is as follows:
"The Services are controlled, operated, and administered by the Company (or its licensees) from its offices within Canada and is not intended to subject the Company to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than those of Canada [...]"

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 30/03/2026

1,000 notes in my Obsidian vault1!1!!1!!!!1!! This is going to look great on the quarterly graph view, probably.

The root folder of my Obsidian vault, titled "Digital Garden." To the right is two numbers; the first one indicating there is 1 note in the root folder itself, and the second one indicating there are 1,000 notes in the rest of the vault.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 27/03/2026

this might be life goals

A drawing of a fish in bed leaning over to the bedside table and drinking a comically large glass of water.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 22/03/2026

Was hanging out with a friend and decided to doodle a little mockup fursona for him since he didn't have one. He's a goat, and inspired by Ralsei and Asriel from Undertale/Deltarune, but maybe his design will change a bit more with time.

An anthropomorphic goat's head looking at the viewer.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 13/03/2026

Apparently Bending Spoons attempted to acquire Obsidian in late 2024? What a fucking joke. Especially with what happened to Evernote once it got acquired by them. Source: x.com/kepano/statu...

An email from Bending Spoons with the subject line, "This might make you really suspicious."

It begins with a brief introduction from an employee at Bending Spoons, who quickly pivots to inquiring about the possibility of acquiring Obsidian—not without first acknowledging how "crazy" it might sound to Obsidian's developers.

The employee mentions how Obsidian's tight-knit community drew Bending Spoons in to the idea of acquiring them. They ask if Obsidian hates the idea, asking to arrange a short call to discuss the idea.

They then end off by stating how they would love to be on Obsidian's radar, as, in their words, they are "for the long term."

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 01/03/2026

It seems we might get editing Markdown files in Obsidian without creating a vault in the future. In my opinion, vault-less editing should be really simple and straightforward; if theming is needed, maybe having some separate config for that might work?

A comment thread on Hacker News. A user expresses their desire to edit Markdown files using Obsidian without needing to create a vault. Kepano (Obsidian's CEO) replies to the comment saying that Obsidian plans to add it at some point, but questions around implementation are tricky because configuration largely happens at a vault level.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 20/02/2026

On top of that, Grok is also literally repeating the main points of Obsidian's manifesto...

An excerpt of a Grokipedia article on Obsidian, which states: "At its core, Obsidian adheres to five key principles: yours (free tools for everyone), durable (future-proof open file formats), private (on-device storage with optional end-to-end encrypted sync), malleable (extensible via thousands of community plugins and themes), and independent (no ads or data mining)."

Obsidian's manifesto, saying the same five points as Grokipedia: Yours, Durable, Private, Malleable, and Independent.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 19/02/2026

You know, I knew Grokipedia was a bit of a shitshow, but having duplicate entries for Obsidian is crazy work. And then when people suggested removing the duplicate, Grok decided not to do anything about it.

A search bar on Grokipedia reading "Obsidian software." Below it are two results that read exactly as "Obsidian (software)"

The edits history panel for the Obsidian article in Grokipedia. Two different edit requests are made to remove the duplicate encyclopedia entry from Grokipedia. Both edit requests are rejected by Grok.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 16/02/2026

Obsidianposting will continue until morale improves /s

A caricature of an Obsidian user with Obsidian-themed clothing and other items on them. The user is pointing their phone to the viewer, with text saying: "Here is some incredibly boring information about my vault." In the background, the settings menu for Obsidian can be seen.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 01/02/2026

Very interesting, I'm curious at what it'll add. Hopefully it fixes this weird UI bug where the sign out button in the settings menu stretches to be super tall lol.

A sidebar in the Firefox web browser for margin.at. At the bottom, a large "Sign Out" button is consuming all available vertical space after every other UI element.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 01/01/2026

Once more, i forgot to post it yesterday. This is my Obsidian graph view at the end of December 2025. I'll likely make these quarterly instead of monthly, as after a certain point changes aren't super noticeable until several months have passed. #obsidianmd #obsidiangraph

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 30/12/2025

Reading this about Thymer's developers in their alpha release FAQ reminds me a lot about Obsidian's developers. Obsidian was developed by just two people (Erica Xu and Shida Li) who had worked together for years prior to the release of Obsidian.

A snippet of Thymer's alpha release FAQ that reads, "Who is 'we'? We're a small independent team, Diederik van Houten (@jdvhouten) and Wim Cools (@wcools). We've been building profitable bootstrapped software products together for over a decade (all still serving customers). We started working on Thymer more than 3 years ago, self-funding the development with a mission to build something big :)."

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 04/12/2025

These are also the branches of the Obsidian Stats GitHub repository, so it's definitely clear they're using AI for this project.

The branches list for the Obsidian Stats GitHub repository. Several branches are prefixed with "copilot/fix," indicating that the Microsoft Co-Pilot, an LLM, was used to develop the Obsidian Stats website.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 01/12/2025

Accidentally forgot to post it yesterday, but here is my Obsidian monthly graph view for November 2025! #obsdianmd #obsidiangraph

An Obsidian graph, featuring many dots of varying sizes and lines connecting them. Each dot represents a note I've taken, and each line represents a link between two notes.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 22/11/2025

My playlists are very well designed and definitely don't feature any tonal whiplash whatsoever..

Two songs from a YouTube playlist, the first being "BIG SHOT" by Toby Fox, and the second being "Good Morning, Mr. Sunfish!" by YonKaGor.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 15/11/2025

Oh shit apparently Obsidian is actively working on improving the mobile app experience. I cannot wait to see how this turns out, because I've always found the mobile experience in inferior to desktop in most regards. Source: obsidian.md/roadmap/

A screenshot of Obsidian's roadmap page, showing the features that are currently under active development. There are two features shown:

1. Mobile UI refresh—Make the interface easier to use on touchscreen devices.
2. Mobile widgets—Quick actions from your lock screen, home screen, and more.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 07/11/2025

I found some more older Obsidian graphs of mine. My vault didn't change much in this period, and grew fairly slowly: #obsidianmd #obsidiangraph

An old screenshot of my Obsidian graph from February 10th, 2025.

An old screenshot of my Obsidian graph from April 20th, 2025.

An old screenshot of my Obsidian graph from May 16th, 2025.

An old screenshot of my Obsidian graph from June 20th, 2025.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 02/11/2025

Yeah, Notebook Navigator's Wiki page on their GitHub has the relevant feature requests. I'll include a link soon, apparently GitHub's website is bugged on mobile and doesn't let me copy the link to the section heading when clicking the icon for that.

A section of Notebook Navigator's Wiki on GitHub, titled "Smart Folders / Bases (Third Context Type)."

Beneath this section title is a list, with three items highlighted: "Bases/Smart Folders like Apple Notes (saved searches)", "Bases views visible under each base in navigation", and "Property-based navigation system."

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 31/10/2025

Monthly obsidian.md graph post: October 2025. #obsidiangraph

An Obsidian graph, showcasing my vault as of the end of October 2025.

Each node is a markdown file, and each line connecting them together is a link between notes.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 31/10/2025

I've decided to post an old Obsidan graph view of mine from January 25th, 2025. As a treat before the monthly graph view for October. This was before my major vault refactors to start heavily linking between topics, hence why there's so few links. #obsidianmd #obsidiangraph

An Obsidian graph, showcasing my vault as of January 25th, 2025. Each node is a markdown file, and each line connecting nodes together are the links between these files.

There are very few links in this graph, leaving most notes disconnected.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 03/10/2025

WOAH, the Better Properties plugin for @obsidian.md just dropped! Look at this! NESTED PROPERTIES!!!! github.com/unxok/obsidi...

A screenshot of the Better Properties plugin for obsidian.md.

It shows off the new property types added by the plugin, including "array," "color," "date custom," "numeric," "markdown," "object," "select," "slider," "time," and "toggle."

Inside of the array and object property types, there is visual nesting in the interface.

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Duskfall @duskfall.dev · 27/07/2025

Alongside that, despite me using my own weird custom footnote solution, it might be nice for other Obsidian users to have a better way to quickly access their footnotes. Native Obsidian forces you to scroll all the way down to see them, offering no means to access it via the outline.

An Obsidian note that showcases note content on the left and Obsidian's outline panel on the right. The note's footnotes are visible as a different "section" that is separate from all other note content, but the outline does not offer a user any way of quickly accessing footnotes.

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