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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 01/04/2026

I keep thinking about having a server where I'd run ai coding agents. Why: always on for recurring tasks (that would use my discount tokens 🙃) + I can send messages to them from my phone + better isolation vs running things directly on my laptop (but still some scoped access)

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 07/03/2026

Over the last week I've been iterating on my SRS practice in @RoamResearch I present to you Rememo - a roam/memo (by @JoseBrowneX) compatible standalone app. It connects to your graph and lets you review your cards without waiting for Roam to load 🙃

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HYTRADBOI @hytradboi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

HYTRADBOI is tomorrow! Feb 28 0900 PDT. The chat will run for days, so it's worth joining even if you can't make the early hours. Bring all your friends too! Re-skeet, share on your favorite forum, put flyers under your neighbours doors etc. See you tomorrow! www.hytradboi.com/2025/#tickets

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HYTRADBOI 2025

HYTRADBOI is a fun online conference about databases, programming languages, and everything in between.

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 23/01/2025

This is currently broken bc search API started returning 403 for me (e.g. public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsk...) Will see if there is a workaround in a bit!

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 11/01/2025

Are there any established good practices/standard advice on mixing Automerge (or CRDTs more generally) and complex querying (e.g. having documents in something like sqlite/pglite and running queries based on their content and relationship/etc)

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 08/01/2025

TIL www.sortabase.com exists, excited for more explorations in collaborative structured data. Though specific DB I was interested in (on Wireless Earbuds) seems outdated unfortunately

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Sortabase | Collaborative, visual databases by communities

Sortabase is a platform for communities to build and manage collaborative, visual databases

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 30/12/2024

It also now shows "best posts" when you visit someone's profile on Bluesky - something I've been missing from Twemex.

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 26/12/2024

Using the sidebar bsky.app/profile/vlad... I stumbled on the mention of @en.blueark.app and migrated my historical tweets to Bluesky. In turn making the sidebar more useful (as it has access to more context now)

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brian @briancloutier.com · 14/12/2024

my first custom feed: Top Articles It shows you the links the people you follow have most shared in the last 24 hours

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 18/12/2024

Prototyped sort of ampie.app version for Bluesky. It shows you bluesky mentions for a given link you're visiting. Definitely gives a feeling of more "connected" web

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 14/12/2024

I've built "subscribe to a Bluesky thread as an RSS feed" - check it out at vlad-blueskythreadtorss.web.val.run Subscribing to updates to specific thread is the functionality I wanted to exist on Twi/X since forever. Delighted on how easy it was to build my own version of it for Bsky!

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 11/12/2024

My Roam Research automation of the day: A keyboard shortcut to create a new block on a daily note page and open it in sidebar with focus on it. The intent is "quick capture" within Roam without having to switch contexts. Code: gist.github.com/Stvad/0f6e88...

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Roam Research shortcut to create a new block on a daily note page and open it in sidebar with focus on it

Roam Research shortcut to create a new block on a daily note page and open it in sidebar with focus on it - quick-capture.js

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 22/11/2024

Recently upgraded my voice note process. Wrote up details here: vlad.roam.garden/Streamlining...

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 20/11/2024

Thinking of revamping roam garden, looking for inspirations. Anything in networked-thought-publishing space people found exciting recently?

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 19/06/2024

In NYC again - till the end of the month! Pls reach out to say hi!

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 09/03/2024

In NYC till next Thu - ping me if you'd like to say hi 🙂

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 03/11/2023

Cat cafe but for mechanical keyboards with different switches ⌨️

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 02/11/2023

Dance has become a big part of my life this year. And naturally I started to wonder - can I build tools that help me get better at dancing? I’m exploring some experiments in the space, but I wonder if people are aware of existing things that would fit that description?

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 20/08/2023

I've been failing at reading things on the internet for many years, but I kept trying and tweaking my approach. Finally, last year I've arrived at something that actually works! I've written up the process here in hopes other people find it...

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 18/08/2023

What is the state of the art in collaborative knowledge creation? I want something Roam-like, but publicly accessible and indexable (& editable) With good history and facilities to enable some level of moderation (e.g. wikipedia) to prevent spam/vandalism

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 22/07/2023

As a part of my recent explorations of @matrixdotorg I've figured out how to build serverless bots for it (using @ValDotTown) check out the guide at vlad.roam.garden/How-to-create-a-se…

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 09/06/2023

I'm running an experiment when every Tue, starting 5pm I'd be at @thesfcommons and encourage my friends to come and hang out with me The goal is to create additional opportunities for meaningful interactions while removing the overhead of...

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 07/02/2023

I've been recently thinking about how knowledge management and chat can work better together (think RoamResearch x Slack) And written an article that explores some of the ideas I had (it links to a few prototypes I built around this):...

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 29/12/2022

Roam Garden tip. It currently doesn't support Roam's `video` command, but you can still embed videos by pasting the embed code youtube/etc will give you into a block And such a block will be rendered as video in the garden

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 28/12/2022

Belatedly following the trends - I made a 'date me' doc 🙂 Please check it out and send it to people who you think can be a good match! date.vlad.sitalo.org

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 27/12/2022

A somewhat more recent version of prototype of integrating notes and chat! (I noticed that the prev version was totally illegible on Twitter 😅)

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 24/11/2022

Some recent experiments on mixing Knowledge management and chat

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 10/09/2022

My date UX improvements plugin is live in Roam Depot! It provides: - Date manipulation widget for mobile - Natural language date manipulation - Some additional date navigation keyboard shortcuts

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 10/09/2022

@goodreads not a book policy triggers me each time...

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 03/08/2022

@hypothes_is annotation but with edit suggestions like GDocs 🤔

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 26/07/2022

Going to ephemerisle.org this week! Anyone else, I know, plans to be there?

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ephemerisle

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 05/07/2022

I was visiting Mexico City recently and it has a museum that is about Tequila and Music Which my friend summarized as “museum of having fun” That seems like a great general concept for museum, I’m wondering what are some other museums you know that would fit into that category?

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 22/06/2022

A meta tag that provides an HTML representation for how link preview should be rendered!

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 18/06/2022

30% of the time when I google something to check if it's valid English it ends up being a song title 🙈

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 09/06/2022

We should normalize reporting our odds on making it to a social event, so hosts can use expected value calculation to get enough food!

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 07/06/2022

This now has a bounty attached to it for new options!

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 04/06/2022

What kind of automation/prompts/algorithm of thought have you found actually useful in your knowledge management practice?

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 30/05/2022

Has anyone tried cooking their own version of JavaScript? What was your experience? What I have in mind is something like: "assemble a bunch of existing/custom new/ Babel plugins" to form a dialect of the language that is nicer then the default

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 27/05/2022

hypothes_is but instead of standalone entities - each annotation is a slack thread 🤔

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 22/05/2022

What are your favorite examples of combining knowledge base (like Roam) and communication medium (like Slack)?

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 21/05/2022

What's your preferred TTS experience on Android? (Ideally with an ability to enable it for any text)

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 17/05/2022

@owlocr is the closest thing I found so far! (allows you to take PDF screenshots with text OCRd into them and some links working) @rsnous Screenotate is also pointing at a similar direction though more in the context of searchability vs sharing the context-rich representation

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 16/05/2022

What if you can take screenshots as SVG? 🤔

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 10/05/2022

I've built a library which allows you to enable live link previews on your site with just one line of code. Get it at github.com/Stvad/link-summoner

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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 27/04/2022

An experiment to enable better UX for annotating web on iPad, by allowing you to Scribble anywhere on the page www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HJFI66b8c

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