Author: sjwillis
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Friday Links for Jul 31, 2020
My new gig at work is keeping me insanely busy and so it’s been a while since I’ve gotten around to updating here. Here’s a few of the links I’ve saved this week. Linking ≠ endorsement. Free Speech Prevails at Princeton | Robert P. George – This is a time of testing for our nation. We…
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Book Review – Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
I can’t say enough good things about this book. Saunder’s Catholicism-informed Buddhism is on full display. The detailing of Lincoln’s transformation of grief is one of the best things I’ve ever read on dealing with loss. The re-animation of the souls stuck in bardo through their metta/lovingkindness engagement with the departing Lincoln, also great. Also…
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Mac->Parallels->Windows Remote Desktop Keyboard mapping problem
Whoa, this was driving me nuts, so glad I got it sorted. When I used Remote Desktop on my Mac’s Parallel’s VM running Windows 10, every time I typed the pipe key (|) I got double quotes (“) and every time I typed a backslash (\) I got a single tick (‘) and my quote…
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Good Grateful Dead Matrix Recordings
On facebook the other day, a friend asked for some Grateful Dead live show recording suggestions the other day. I can’t imagine a show that I wouldn’t listen to but I list some recent favorites down below. There is always gold to be mined in every show, somewhere. That said, for the past year I’ve…
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Essential Working From Home Apps and Tools
All of this working from home has meant that I have not spent this much uninterrupted time behind my personal computer since I do not know when. This is to say, over the past few weeks I have dialed in my personal setup in a way that is super-useful to me and I thought I’d share…
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Recording Music/Video with GarageBand on iPad and video on iPhone – Part 1
If you’ve spent anytime at all on YouTube watching videos of guitarists you know that they range in quality from quick and dirty iPhone videos to more elaborate multi-screen, multi-track presentations. Until this week and being quarantined and all with the Coronavirus pandemic, I had never really given much thought to posting my own videos…
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Friday Links for Mar 20, 2020
10 Ways to Ease Your Coronavirus Anxiety – These simple tips will help you relax and put things in perspective — in between washing your hands, of course. A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers – Good tips from HBR A cough, and our hearts stop: Coping with coronavirus anxiety and fear – More…
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Friend of the Devil — Martin D-18
We are on mandatory lock-down here in NJ to help flatten the curve. Yesterday, late in the afternoon I made the mistake of looking at Facebook. I should have known better. Facebook just seems to bring out the worst in people. So I figured I might try to tilt the scales a little bit more to the positive…
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Friday Links for Mar 13, 2020
Desktop-Class Productivity for iPad – Things Blog – Cultured Code – Release notes with cool tips. Individual vs collective climate action – Those who are concerned about the climate crisis need to do a better job at highlighting that more than 70% of the climate problem is caused by just 100 corporations Not a ‘math…
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Conveying Presence/Availability During Remote Work
One of the challenges of working remotely is conveying your presence/availability to your colleagues while working at home.