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Simon Späti 🏔️

@ssp.sh

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Dad. Technical Author, Data Engineer. Data practitioner (20y) • Writing at ssp.sh since 2015. Focused on the craft of data engineering & storytelling. 📚 vault.ssp.sh • 📖 @dedp.online ❯ #dataengineering, #opensource, #writing, #obsidian, #neovim

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · Oct 29

Hello bsky👋🏻. In case we haven't met: Simon from 🇨🇭 I bought my first domain sspaeti.com in 2008 and had a popular party site with HTML/CSS/PHP.

Since 2015, I'm crafting open-source data engineering essays on ssp.sh, vault.ssp.sh and book.ssp.sh. Hacking at gh.ssp.sh. I recently started freelancing.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 37m

Compounding is so substantial. You can do it with notes, money, and in life. It is slow, but it’s the right way to grow.

Unfortunately, negative compounding also works. I've built a business around the compounding effect. It's fascinating to me to this day how it works, slowly but surely.

Compound: Everything Does

Compounding is something so substantial. You can do it with notes ([[Compounding Note-Taking]]), money, and in life ([[Principles]]). It is slow, but it’s the right way to grow.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2h

A couple of reviews there, a couple of images here, and all of a sudden you have reached 1 million views.

Keep compounding.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 4h

Nice, this looks great. This was also the first project I built for myself. Still kind of working today :)
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GitHub - ssp-data/practical-data-engineering: Practical Data Engineering: A Hands-On Real-Estate Project Guide

Practical Data Engineering: A Hands-On Real-Estate Project Guide - ssp-data/practical-data-engineering

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 4h

In case of interest, my latest presentations and podcasts at gigs.ssp.sh.

My Gigs (Podcasts, Videos, Slides, etc.)

Here I have a list of my appearance online or slides I shared during an event. 9. Andreas Kretz Podcast: Why Writing Is Thinking, and What Data Engineers Can Learn from It In this episode, [[Andreas K...

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 4h

A curated list with more tools, mainly markdown-based.

Markdown Presentations or Slides

Creating slides on Markdown. Slide Tools [[Marp - Presentation Markdown]] [[Slidev]] lookatme (terminal) [[Quarto]] reveal.js used by [[Letsboot.ch]] Presenterm: A markdown terminal slideshow t...

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 4h

oh nice, didn't know that. I added it to my list. thanks for sharing.

Markdown Presentations or Slides

Creating slides on Markdown. Slide Tools [[Marp - Presentation Markdown]] [[Slidev]] lookatme (terminal) [[Quarto]] reveal.js used by [[Letsboot.ch]] Presenterm: A markdown terminal slideshow t...

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 17h

yeah, if you have interactive code to run, is probably best. for just simple presentation, i prefer presenterm

Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 18h

Which Markdown-based Presentation tool do you use these days?

Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 18h

I used Presenterm on my last talk.

-> Generates an HTML Web version: www.ssp.sh/slides/25-06...
-> Generates PDF: www.ssp.sh/slides/25-06...

It also has an interactive mode that you can run with presenter mode while speaking.

All based on Markdown. Supports Mermaid and images.

GitHub - mfontanini/presenterm: A markdown terminal slideshow tool

A markdown terminal slideshow tool. Contribute to mfontanini/presenterm development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 18h

GitHub - mfontanini/presenterm: A markdown terminal slideshow tool

A markdown terminal slideshow tool. Contribute to mfontanini/presenterm development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 1d

The Power of Saying No.

Hell Yeah or No: The Power of Saying No

or what’s worth doing. A lot is also about saying no. The mental model of “ Hell Yeah, or No” served me well to focus on things that give me energy. If many things make you happy, know you can only d...

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2d

but i think its back now

Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2d

I think there's something going on, but yeah, this happens all the time to me, that's why I prefer Bsky :)

Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2d

Twitter is down in Switzerland or is erroring out. LinkedIn and Substack super slow. Bluesky works like a charm 🙂

Something is happening with Cloudflare or AWS I would guess, as it's on multiple platforms.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2d

MDS in a box :) Love it. You could add @rilldata.com for the simplest BI tool (simple cli binary) if you want to add visualization too.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2d

you won't regret :)

Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2d

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Screen Sharing on Wayland (Hyprland) with Chromium Browsers (Brave, Chrome, Chromium, etc.)

This is the solution to avoid double prompt when screen sharing on Linux with Wayland. This works for Google Meet, Zoom, Teams and other that run in the browser.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 2d

In case anyone was struggling with the double pop-up when screen sharing in Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams with Wayland/Hyprland Linux (Omarchy in my case).

Here's a solution that worked for me. I hope that helps.

Allow a restore token by default will solve that problem.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · Jun 7

A little rant about hosting your own tech, and independence.

What's your favorite self-hosted tech? And what else do you plan to build for yourself next?

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Self-Host & Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

Why I self-host my websites, newsletter, and homelab—and the satisfaction that comes from building and using your own digital tools.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 5d

wow the text is amazing with the gradient in the terminal, how does one do that? :)

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 6d

This is how the rendered book appears when added to Obsidian.

Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 6d

In case anyone uses @obsidian.md webclipper for #Goodreads, apparently the website got a bad update, and the clips don't work anymore.

In red, the extraction of title, author, and subtitle (I had to use a prompt).

Updated my template that works again for me: www.ssp.sh/brain/obsidi...