All of my current projects live on the World Wide Web. They're all free to use and generously licensed, without advertising: in other words, labors of love.
I'll just list them more-or-less alphabetically.
Notenik – This is a software project, with an application for the Mac that's available through the Mac App Store. I'd been coding lots of this in Java for years, before deciding to switch to the Swift programming language in 2019. The application allows you to take Notes, and to generate Web pages from those Notes. In fact, hbowie.net is entirely generated using Notenik, as are most of my other sites.
Built with Notenik. Available from the Mac App Store, Notenik can be used for taking, organizing, formatting and publishing notes, with each note consisting of multiple fields, as well as chunks of text of any length. This latest version of The Practical Utopian website has been built using Notenik. Content, templates and scripts on GitHub.
Notnikyatu
The Practical Utopian – A site about philosophy, and culture, and art, and politics. This is the place where most of my new writing is appearing these days.
Notenik是一款macOS平台的简单方便的笔记软件，能够帮助我们在Mac电脑上灵活方便的记录笔记，该软件设计的理念是方便我们更加简单地获取、收集和引用笔记。每个笔记内容都存储为纯文本文件， 搏击可以包含多个字段，默认情况下包含链接字段和标记。. Notenik is something I just came across that seems pretty relevant to this community. It stores notes in.md, and has a bunch of opinionated methods that seem in line with Zettelkasten techniques. Disadvantages: each note gets a UID time stamp, but linking between the notes does not use that by default.
That being said, Notenik is free and open-source (so I don’t make any money off of it), and I’m really more motivated to urge you to consider the practices we’re discussing today, than I am to. Using Notenik in Some Trendy, Cool Ways Commonplace books have been around for a while In the last week or so I’ve come across a couple of articles touting some trendy ways for individuals to collect information that is personally meaningful to them.
Reason to Rock – This site has been around since 2001. It's a complete book about the aesthetics of rock music, including detailed analyses of many notable recordings. I still get pretty regular emails out of the blue from people thanking me for one page or another. The write-up about the Jimi Hendrix recording of Dylan's “All Along the Watchtower” is probably the one that's garnered the most appreciative feedback.
Software Development Big Ideas – After decades working in corporate software development, and reading countless books, articles and blogs on the subject, and living through phases that included the Capability Maturity Model as well as the Agile Manifesto, I felt the need to document what seemed to me the most important ideas on the subject. If you're working in the field, then you should probably know this stuff.
Notebike
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