Author: sjwillis
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Apple Lossless Dolby Atmos
I scored a great deal on a NAD receiver/amplifier (with a phono preamp!) recently and finally had a chance to run it through its paces into my KEF Q150s. I primarily listen to vinyl through this setup but also have an older AirPort Express going into an outboard DAC via optical out so that I…
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Three key health metrics from Apple Watch – V02 Max, HRV and resting heart rate
As I finished up my run this AM, I checked my phone to look at the health data captured during the run. This is my habit and it got me thinking that based upon some recent conversations with friends of mine who got Apple Watches for Christmas, it feels like more than a few Apple…
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iPad Pro for home studio recording
I love my iPad Pro for recording. My current workflow involves laying tracks into GarageBand and then either exporting the stems out to a Google Drive where one of my band mates adds them to our band’s Reaper projects or I dump the project to my Mac and play around with the mix in Logic.…
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Joni Mitchell’s River
Kül d’Sack put together a little Christmas present for our listeners. Usually at this time of year we’d be doing our Christmas show at a local bar and cajoling the crowd to join us in the caroling. This year COVID kept that from happening. Instead we each recorded our parts for Joni Mitchell’s River at…
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Deleting minutes from Apple Watch Exercise
I accidentally left Zwift running in the background on my Apple TV the other night and ended up with a few thousand exercise minutes showing up on my Apple Watch rings. In the interest of maintaining clean data I set about trying to remove the unearned minutes. Whoa. What a rabbit hole! – you can…
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Goodreads. The roach motel for your reading data?
Have never had a whole lot of love for Goodreads as the site feels like Amazon stealth research department. Now that they’ve made it impossible for me to get out my annual stats via API, I’d really like to find a good alternative.
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Readwise feedback and remembering what you’ve read
The value of reading is proportional to the ability to remember what you have read. Reading is a richer experience when you are reading through a lens informed by the context of everything you’ve read and experience before. Indeed, how much richer is daily life when you can call on a piece of verse or…
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Why You Been Gone So Long
This has been one of my favorite songs lately. Really enjoy the Tony Rice version. Now that I’ve got my recording corner set up again in my home office I hope to be posting more videos. Enjoy:
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Reminder to Charge Apple Watch
Wrote up a handy little Keyboard Maestro macro that will remind me to charge my Apple Watch. The special sauce here is that it runs any and every time I wake up my Mac between 5AM and 10:30AM. You can download the Keyboard Maestro macro here. [update: So, Keyboard Maestro doesn’t have a trigger for “password…
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Apple Health HRV Data & Lyme Disease
I think Heart Rate Variability data (good overview from Harvard Medical Health Blog) can be a strong indicator of health relative to an individual’s baseline. The problem for me has always been “baseline.” In the early days of HRV, I measured my beat-to-beat measurements using my iPhone (occasionally paired to a Polar heart rate monitor)…