Every so often I'm up late jamming on #Alexandria, then wakes up over in Germany, logs onto our OneDev server, sees my commits rolling in, and drops the ol' 🍿 I'm not used to programming with an audience.

Seeing the OpenGraph previews in actions makes me very happy. Next is to improve our SSR so we can show unique previews for each note/article/publication/whatever.

I saw a different thought today that seems relevant—the real builders love their work. From interacting with you over the course of a year and more, I know you're someone who truly loves the work for what it is, not just for what you can get out of it. People like you are the ones who stick around long enough to build the future. And even if it doesn't go according to our grandiose dreams, at least we learn something along the way, right?

There are a few reasons we chose AsciiDoc: 1. It has a single, well-defined syntax standard, unlike Markdown, for which there are several competing flavors. 2. It has strong support for advanced markup, such as LaTeX, PlantUML, and similar. 3. It has a well-supported parser and plugin ecosystem in the form of Asciidoctor. I would suggest, rather than writing your own custom AsciiDoc plugin, to use Asciidoctor. There are available plugins for most advanced use cases, and it has a plugin API for writing custom extensions. https://asciidoctor.org/

You may also have noticed that links to Alexandria show a preview with an image (of books, of course) and a description of the site. This link preview is something I've been particularly excited about. We'll be enhancing it in the future from a generic preview to one unique to each event.

I just discovered a kind 30023 long-form article via Alexandria's topical search, skimmed it within Alexandria, and then microblogged about it, also from within Alexandria. It's starting to become a complete Nostr app, y'all.

A library, complete with book clubs, community rooms, card catalogs...everything!

Topical searches with `t:` are pretty impressive right now.

Yeah unfortunately I kinda doubt we're established enough for what that senior project program is looking for. We're also very focused on #Alexandria right now, which is a web app, so not as much C++.

It's probably that everyone is a different kind of smart. Sometimes the braincells bounce around in sync, and sometimes they run into each other.

A new version of Alexandria is live! has been hard at work on the app's omni-search features and universal event viewer. will be helping us to polish up the UX over the coming weeks, but we're stretching and experimenting and trying out some power user features to see what will stick. You can try them out too! Go to next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu, log in, and click on "Events". Take some time to explore, and please give us your feedback!

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That would work well for sharing photos from your PurpleKonnektiv meetups

Sounds like a fun idea! Sort of like AirDrop or Pinterest or something like that.