Abram Unabia

bask in our cosmic insignificance

[kepano @kepano]

This is Knap. It's a new language I created that turns data into Markdown. The syntax should feel familiar and comes with wonderfully pleasant features to modify and format plain text.

Knap is open source. Over a million people already use Knap directly or indirectly because it started as the templating language I made for Obsidian Web Clipper. Now any tool can use it.

You can add Knap to your app or use it via CLI. Create a batch of Markdown files from JSON or CSV, or pipe Defuddle directly into Knap to generate Markdown from HTML/URLs.

The Knap site is color-coded to help beginners understand the relationship between variables (blue), filters (orange), and logic (green). I've tried to document it as comprehensively as I can.

Try the Knap Playground so you can see how fun the syntax is to use!

Knap is pronounced /knæp/ (with a hard k). It's named after knapping (with a silent k): the process of shaping stones to form arrowheads, scrapers, and other tools.

Enjoy!

[Siosi (Si-O-Si) @GeorgeSiosi]

Notion is quickly rising as a default AI control plane (harness) for normies and power users.

If we look at how people are naturally using @NotionHQ with Grok @bot, we're seeing how Grok is being used to "execute." While Notion's holding the kanban, CRM, wiki, and handoff records. (But this may change soon).

What's really interesting is that users are essentially reinventing Lore (https://t.co/GMdLdTglYK) - something Notion built 4 months ago, to bridge their own gap in agent market standards (between Pages and .md file structures) - without installing Lore. So: durable objects, human review, multi-agent coordination, and model-swappable storage. Markdown-friendly pages in Notion make that cheap.

So the behavior is not “Notion pages are .md files.” It's that “chat is ephemeral labor, the page becomes the company.”

[claire 🫧 @PRCAB3TH]

what a good day to be a percy jackson and hunger games fan

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

I used to work 6am - 6pm, 6 days a week, on a construction site in my early 20s.

Honestly? It fucking sucked, dude. I would sit in my car outside the site at 530am, desperately drinking a coffee, telling myself over and over again, "god I wish I was in sciences"

Because every night when I got home what did I do? Watch Walter Levin MIT Open Courseware physics lectures. I had already exhausted all the popular science books long before so just started on undergrad level physics. The alternative was drinking a six pack of beer like everyone else and watching bullshit TV.

The construction site job was actually better than what I was doing before. Landscaping, stone masonry shit. Backbreaking labor, truly. Breaking concrete slabs up with a sledgehammer and carrying bricks all day. That's literally a punishment in prison.

There was a company event for the property development Corp doing the construction I was working for where everyone talked about their degrees. Most people had been at the company for almost a decade, did random unrelated degrees.

I realized. If I didn't take control of my life the years would tick by. So I went back to school for engineering physics at age, like, 25. I probably wouldn't graduate until I was 30, but shit.

You're going to turn 30 one day anyway. Might as well be doing something you chose.

A year into schooling I had my first paying job in a physics lab, basically minimum wage, but my god. I was getting paid to work in a physics lab. I could drink coffee and read papers, build cool stuff. It was insane.

The kids around me had no idea how lucky we were to be there. They hadn't suffered being trapped in dead end jobs that leave you too exhausted to really think, plan, get ahead. So I viciously worked my ass off through out engineering physics to play the game as best I could. Get the best internships, connections, etc. By the end of undergrad I was taking graduate level classes and outperforming the PhD students at them.

Everything since then had gone better than I could've imagined. I used to think - wow, the dream would be designing fusion reactors, if only. Now I have patents in fusion reactor design. I've worked on particle accelerators, LEO satellite communications, beam driven fusion devices, finite element analysis for RF source design at SLAC.

So no. Fuck mind breaking manual labor. Leave it for the robots. Choose your own path.

I will say though. There are few things as therapeutic and full body workout as shoveling sand. I can show you at least a dozen different sand shoveling techniques to work every muscle in your upper body. Also wheelbarrow technique.

[Abram Unabia @notbruhhm]

@thatskygame vibes ayoo

[Ben&Ben @BenAndBenMusic]

THE TRAVELLER ACROSS DIMENSIONS
Ben&Ben’s Third Album.
Official Album Trailer | Out on 11.29.24

[Abram Unabia @notbruhhm]

@NotionHQ FORMS 📝

[Notion @NotionHQ]

How @figma's team used Notion to plan #Config2024 🎨

From event planning, web team tracking, and sprints → See what they learned along the way and how you can use Notion to streamline your own cross-functional collaboration.
https://t.co/X94SSEUdPB

[Abram Unabia @notbruhhm]

@NotionHQ Charts 📊

[luis. @disco_lu]

This website it brutally beautiful

(the music is great too)

https://t.co/VoMk0ESHmC

[CBM Shots @CBMshots]

“Look between _ and _ on your keyboa-“

[deepfates @deepfates]

gm

[Abram Unabia @notbruhhm]

more reason to support local brands like https://t.co/qBVy4N90Th

[Ryan @ryan_wdgrd]

Whey Protein Content DOST-FNRI Random Lab Result

Para sa worried if amino spiked ang whey protein na iniinom

ps. Study is Limited to protein serving and selected brand and variant only

[Abram Unabia @notbruhhm]

me during the episode: "fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. oh fuck"

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

the bear.

[Notion @NotionHQ]

Ivan and Simon have been building Notion for 10 years. Today, they’re peeling back the curtain on the early days!

Their first meeting. The first version of the product. Our first conversations with users.

First Block, season 1 finale.

Watch now: https://t.co/21Dil0zX8l

[Thomas Frank @TomFrankly]

Every day, the internet shows us examples of how playing unfairly works.

Gurus lie and plagiarize to build up a huge audience. Then they sell an expensive course teaching you how to be like them.

Grifters hit the first page of Google with AI-generated content full of misinformation.

Products hit the top spot on ProductHunt using obviously-paid-for comments and upvotes.

It seems like success is easy if you have a bit of talent paired with a lack of morals.

From experience, I can also tell you that no matter what field you work in, you'll rub elbows with people who are at many different points on the moral spectrum.

If you're a decent person who cares about others, you'll sniff out and reject the true grifters right away.

But the people who are just a little bit closer to that grifter-territory will make compelling arguments for why you should bend your morals a bit.

I experienced a lot of this when I was actively making productivity content.

So many people tried to convince me that I should monetize my audience (of students) by making expensive courses on productivity or motivation.

"If a person takes your $2,000 course and gets a $10,000 raise, then it's worth it!"

It's easy to hijack the logic of value-based pricing to justify nearly any price. Simply manufacture the picture of your perfect, ideal customer who gets a great result in your head – then ignore the facts that:

- That person probably didn't need you anyway
- They're <1% of your buyers
- 99%+ of your income will come from people who don't get that level of value (you can just blame them for not applying the information well enough)

As I've gone through my career, I've done my best to adhere to the moral standards I had when I started, and to scrutinize these types of arguments.

However, I'm also incredibly thankful for the people in my life who have even more trigger-happy bullshit detectors than I do – people who will quickly say "that's a scam" where I might have said, "perhaps there's nuance".

You need these people in your life, even if you don't always agree with them.

This is especially true because many questions don't have a clear moral answer.

Should all courses be free? Is a $10 course ok? $100? $1000?

Many people will have many different answers.

What's important is that you surround yourself with truly caring, thoughtful people who will challenge you on questions like these.

They'll help you develop your "ick" sense.

Because while there's not always a clear moral answer on every question, many specific answers will make you go "ick".

You should pay attention to that feeling, and you should be wary when people try to convince you that feeling is wrong.

[🍊 EYY 🍊 @emmayeeyick]

campus leaders creating a love notes board for valentine's day and proceeding to make me happy cry is really everything you need to know about the @NotionHQ community

[Notion @NotionHQ]

Meet Notion Calendar.

Beautifully designed. Fully integrated with your Notion workspace.

All of your commitments, now in one place.

[Abram Unabia @notbruhhm]

happy to contribute to this! check them out now!

[Notion @NotionHQ]

Back to school time! We asked students to share their wisdom on:

📕 Studying &amp; note-taking
🌟 Clubs &amp; organizations
🧩 Jobs &amp; internships
🧢 University life

25 articles, 50+ tips, 15 templates... this is Notion's Declassified School Survival Guide.

https://t.co/hT6bH5xvbo

[Charles Patterson @CharlesPattson]

Thing I don’t need but need:

[🍊 EYY 🍊 @emmayeeyick]

celebrated our first ✌️🏾 cohorts of campus leaders today + all the inspiring things they've gotten up to this year. together, they've introduced, taught, + connected thousands of students to/through Notion. they're the reason I'm all in on young people being our key to ubiquity 🍎