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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

New video! 🎉 # Obsidian For Learning Part III: Projects The single thing I need my task systems to do, from a simple shopping list to complex project management software, is to answer the question "What should I be doing RIGHT NOW?" In today's video I try to explain my 10 years of optimisation […]

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Tris @tris.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

So, I've had the #SteamFrame for a week now, and I have thoughts. 1. It's got a 2x faster CPU than the Deck, at least when compiling #Rust. 2. The battery life is not "an hour". it's "As long as you can keep swapping out the 2-3 USB C batteries you already have […] [Original post on namtao.com]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

If you're a crate maintainer, be on the look out: :quote_red: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware […]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

after much thought I have figured out my #ai policy: humans are interesting and if you dont agree you can fuck off

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

If AI models are just a kind of compression, Disney's lawyers have the potential to do the funniest thing of all time...

comically bad AI slop micky mouse with a gun

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. ✨️

a json excerpt that says: "body_state": "hydrated"

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

New video! 🎉 :rust: My 2026 Rust Toolkit A demo of my 2026 toolkit for writing #rust, containing a dozen or so tools & packages that I use in every project, along with smart default config. Hope you like! :youtube_logo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlWnoRsGJNQ

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Maestral.app (open source dropbox client) and the official Languagetool browser extension are now BOTH non-functioning. These two dying on the same DAY feels like they've targeted SPECIFICALLY ME! 🫠

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

:rust: in #rust, it's easy to write code that never crashes ...so why dn't rust devs do this!? :youtube: youtu.be/usRlRCNIOG0

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

If you're writing for a living, as I do, I think you should be writing in #Obsidian. youtu.be/BTuGvfQGOrY

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

:rust: This is why you should always enable `pedantic` lints in clippy - it'll even neg your markdown documentation! My lint recs here: www.namtao.com/rust/#strict-lints

A screenshot of the output of `cargo clippy` showing:
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error: item in documentation is missing backticks
help: try
33 - /// NOTE: initial() must exist in the context of an
33 + /// NOTE: `initial()` must exist in the context of an
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Claude Code #burnout seems to be caused by running too many concurrent sessions during the work day. The solution seems to be *dialling back the parallelism a bit*, find your comfortable maximum concurrency and have a break. When I told my brother this, he wondered aloud what he should do with […]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

ME: Can I use the `rand` crate in my project? It's only 6k lines! MUM: We have `rand` at home! `rand` at home: ``` fn rand() -> usize { rand as usize } ```

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Delighted to wake up to Vimjoyer's intro video to devenv, which you should watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj9AxyiaVvU I've been using devenv for a year, combining the best of: - docker, - package management, - per-project toolling, - task running all without the overhead of containers […]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Cracks in the bubble, they're all getting desperate. Emperor's new clothes. (I might be a lousy poet, but I write my own damn material) #ai

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

:youtube_logo: New video! An unusual one today, I came across Relationship Anarchy when researching a topic for @lostterminal last year, and found it gave a framework for many ideas I already had floating around in my mind. youtu.be/vaKeCPgay9I

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

I'm at #rustweek2026 and Greg Kroah-Hartman from the Linux Foundation is PREACHING🙌 :rust:

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

:youtube_logo: New video! I've just published a tiny command-line tool called Savepoint. It's a command watcher that commits when you fix errors, automating a TDD workflow. I hope it's handy! (it's especially good for #rust projects!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBa3BK4Efcw

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

:rust: `bacon clippy` basically taught me Rust. I would not have the job that I do today without the work of the excellent @dystroy Denys also built #broot #dysk, #lazy-regex and a bunch of other Rust tools! The crazy thing? Despite this, he's currently looking for a job or freelance work - […]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

By popular (for some reason!) request, I'll be continuing my "100 Obsidian Plugins" livestream on Sunday 6pm London time, all patrons invited, deets here: www.patreon.com/posts/157503066

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

#Accessability is vital for for SOME people ALL of the time, and ALL people SOME of the time. If your app or site is not accessible, it is broken. Not just for disabled people, but for me If I: - Have misplaced my glasses and can't read your grey on grey fine text - Have my hands full child […]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

how, after all these years, does xkcd keep on smashing it?!

an xkcd comic about how labour is always more expensive than materials

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

nah github, I'm not evil just french

I named a branch privé de deser with an eacute and github is saying CAREFUL THE BRANCH NAME MAY CONTAIN HIDDEN CHARACTERS

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

UNBELIEVABLE news today that Anthropic have developed an #ai model they say is too dangerous to release: slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai… ⚠️ OH SORRY WRONG LINK! That's OpenAI claiming the same thing 7 years ago. (I wonder why these […]

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Just published the recording of yesterday's 2h livestream of my obsidian setup (part 1). I have never felt more autistic than explaining my life systems on stream. Fun though! 😅 www.patreon.com/posts/recording-of-…

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Isaac Corbrey @isaaccorbrey.com · 01/04/2026

This is working better than my previous attempts, thank you for the ideas! A note for folks who have tried fleeting notes and bounced off because of link noise, just stop linking to things in your fleeting notes! Idk why but my brain really hated that and I stopped for a few months because of it

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├── Home (2)
│ ├── Reading list
│ └── Watch list
├── Reference (2)
│ ├── Hexagonal grids
│ └── OAuth
├── Zettelkasten (1)
│ └── LLMs are a bridge between the semantic and the syntactic
└── Orphans (21)
├── A good README should be accessible and useful to both complete laymen and long-term experts
├── Astro lets you use standard JS framework components as static chunks of HTML
├── Figure out how to teach C# in a way that respects the language while embedding the lessons learned from Rust for better engineers
└── Figure out if what I'm struggling with is imposter syndrome or something deeper

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

:youtube_logo: New video! The biggest unanswered question in nearly every book, article, and video on note-taking I have seen is: WHAT DO YOU DO AFTER YOU HAVE TAKEN #NOTES?! Well, to misquote the great Carl Sagan, before you can write an essay from scratch, you must first invent the universe: […]

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