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Symbol Taxonomy
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2026-07-24
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I'm using single-character symbols, one per type as a quick visual cue:
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On Writing Daily"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to… |
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Eleventy InterlinkerObsidian-style wikilinks, backlinks, and embeds for Eleventy. Used for both dead-link reporting and stub-generation. The resolvingFns is why I use this instead of the lighter eleventy-plugin-backlinks alternative. It makes the hover-preview excerpts on wikilinks possible. The dead-link-to-stub pipeline is the… |
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ValuesThe first entry. This site exists for gitminder as the daily-commit driver for two Beeminder goals, and it leans on wiki-links ,like colour-theory to connect ideas as they accumulate, in the tradition of a digital garden more than a blog.[^1]… |
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First CommitHello, world! This is my attempt of creating scaffolding for a digital garden. I'm cautiously optimistic. There are a handful of entries based on the nature of the site itself. For example, values links out, bearminder is currently a stub,colour-theory… |
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CSS Hover FootnoteThe trick behind the footnotes on this site and the hover previews in notes like colour-theory is the same adjacent-hover pattern, just with different content in the hidden span. It's AetherAnne's pattern for footnotes without JavaScript, wired through markdown-it's renderer… |
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Bearminder |
I'm using plain Unicode over emoji because they're stylable with CSS, consistent across OS and browser, and readable in a plain-text RSS feed or terminal. A fast, simple alternative to a heavy SVG icon set.
You can read more about this idea here.The color part of the system is in Colour TheoryGruvbox's rainbow accent set doubles as the symbol taxonomy's colour legend, see values for the entry that started this. One per entry type: red for quotes, yellow for bookmarks, green for notes, blue for diary entries, purple for snippets, and….
Placeholder, not final: the specific symbols above are a first draft.