lifelab
Two panel solution
A jupyter notebook has everything in one linear sequence of blocks. This allows you to mix code and prose into a coherent story, unfortuntely it makes it difficult to navigate pinned or repeated information. For a smarter journal with dashboards, it didn't really work, because I kept scrolling past the same blocks over and over again. I changed it to contain 2 panes. A main text + code pane, and a collapsible sidebar that has all pinned pages and backlinks, allowing adhoc dashboards and mini apps.
When building is more fun than documenting
I have definitely spent more time implementing a blogging system than actually blogging.
The goal of this blog will be to collect papers and Bay Area snippets, porting over all content from http://nhlism.bearblog.dev
It will also highlight lifelab, the system where I actually take the notes.
Sub-pages
- claude design2026-10-18
- LifeLab vs Tiddlywiki2026-10-18
- Advent Of Code2026-10-18
- what is lifelab data scientist edition2026-10-03
- The courage to delete2026-10-03
- editors2026-08-23
- LifeLab 2.02026-05-15
- Finally hit the limit2026-05-15
- page browser2026-05-15
- text buffers2026-05-10
- html2026-05-10
- the everything software for no one2026-03-29
- history2026-03-21
- ML engineer discovers pagination2026-03-15
- ai2026-03-06
- bottom bar2026-02-26
- Matryoshka software2026-02-23
- What does damn this is hard mean in LLM era2026-01-30
- logbook2026-01-05
- what is lifelab PKM edition2025-11-29
- what is lifelab user edition2025-11-29
- what is lifelab techie edition2025-11-29
- screenshots2025-11-28