Author: sjwillis
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Friday Links for Feb 29, 2020
A High-Resolution Audio Primer – a report on a scientific article presented at last year’s AES meeting, in which the authors used test tones and a modest audio system (albeit in an anechoic chamber) to prove that listeners can discriminate between high-rez and CD-rez audio. Don’t think twice – Billy Strings – I recently learned…
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Friday Links for Feb 21, 2020
Beatings, Burns and a Broken Promise – Powerful reporting from the NYTimes on mistreatment of people with developmental disabilities. Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine – Whoa. This is a fantastic read about data harvesting at Amazon. What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us – I use Prime…
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Logging throughout the day with Day One and iOS shortcuts
[updated on Jan 27, 2022] Spending some time on the Day One community page on Facebook it seems like for those who journal multiple times per day–adding notes, thoughts, activities throughout the day–there are two schools of thought for capturing throughout the day: Create a new entry in Day One for each of the day’s multiple…
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Friday Links for Feb 14, 2020
Opinion | Who’s Profiting From Your Outrageous Medical Bills? – Who’s Profiting From Your Outrageous Medical Bills? The same people who should be fixing them. Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be? – Alberto Acerbi & Charlotte Brand | Aeon Ideas – Are popular songs today happier or sadder than they…
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Friday Links for Feb 7, 2020
Getting the iPad to Pro – excellent review of the iPad usability issues by Craig Mod. Pollstar | Hotstar: Billy Strings Goes Beyond Bluegrass – more backstory than I’ve ever seen before on Billy. 5 Cheap(ish) Things to Make the Perfect Cup of Coffee – The New York Times – I switched to black…
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Friday Links for Jan 31, 2020
Dark Mode for Web – Some css tips for making a dark mode version of a website. Putting this on my list of things to tackle. You Are A Strange Loop – YouTube – Was speaking with some friends about Doug Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach the other day and then serendipitously came across this great,…
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10 years of Instapaper
Scouring the web for new/interesting stuff to read is one of the best things about the Internet for me. My workflow for this foraging has been pretty similar for a very long time: browse RSS feeds of interesting people, read short interesting stuff immediately, save the longer stuff in a “read it later” tool. For…
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Reset All Finder Window Customizations
Sometimes you need to go nuclear and get back to baseline on all of those Finder window customizations that you make over time and start afresh. This will get rid of all the .DS_Store files that hold those customizations. I save it as a bash script, chmod it 775 and keep it in my ~/bin/…
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Friday Links for Jan 24, 2020
Friday Links for Jan 24, 2020, #genx @qobuz #hifi and some interesting #Mac reference/tips.
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On Not Splitting up a Mac Fusion Drive
I’ve been second-guessing drive read/write speeds on my new iMac because it has a fusion drive. My iMac has a 2Tb Fusion Drive so that means it has 128GB SSD and the rest is spinning platters. I never really know if I’m reading/writing to/from the SSD or the platters. I mean, it seems zippy so my inclination…