Author: sjwillis
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Austin
Visited Austin. Learned some tips on smoking brisket from the pit master at Terry Black’s. Saw some great live music. Didn’t take nearly as many good pictures as I would have liked. Still, great trip.
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Habit and Repetition
Still coming back to this excellent essay by Meghan O’Gieblyn from Harper’s Magazine: Is it possible in our age of advanced technology to recall the spiritual dimension of repetition? Or has it been conclusively subsumed into the deadening drumbeat of modern life?
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Find and replace local versions of Apple Music files in a playlist
I have a bunch of playlists that I’ve crafted over the years and when I moved to Apple Music I was disappointed to see my local library copies of those files replaced with Apple Music’s versions. It seemed to be totally arbitrary and, importantly, the play count, rating, etc. was different on my local library…
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March, 2022 Top Tracks Playlist
My top tracks for March, 2022. You can listen to this playlist on Apple Music or on Last.fm. Last.fm’s is much more comprehensive for some reason. The service has seemed very flakey the past few weeks and I can’t find an alternative method for tracking so have to live with it just being janky I guess.…
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Readwise daily email
I enjoy when my daily email from readwise offers up two seemingly independent quotes/extracts that inform each other simply by their proximity to each other in the email thread. Today’s: Race After Technology by Benjamin, Ruha Hashtags like #CancelRoseanne operate like a virtual public square in which response to racial insults are offered and…
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FujiFilm X100F Malfunctions & Repair
Several months ago the EVF/OVF on my X100F stopped working correctly. I sent it in for repair to Fuji. I should note that printing out the form on FujiFilm Camera Repair page is laughably broken but, anyway. After a few weeks I heard back that FujiFilm wanted $650 to repair the viewfinder. I asked…
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Green
First rainy day in a while. Glad because it’s been nice out lately and I’ve been too busy working to enjoy it. Less FOMO on a rainy day.
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Removing a domain from a letsencrypt cert
My letsencrypt SSL cert wasn’t renewing. I’d forgotten that I moved my wife’s site to squarespace so that caused the renewal to not find the site on my IP, causing it to fail with something like: Attempting to renew cert . . . produced an unexpected error: Failed authorization procedure. I was using the same…
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Thanks, update!
Morning after update to 15.4, all shortcuts look the same now. Not super useful, Apple: