Author: sjwillis
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Freedom vs Function
Great piece by Brent Simmons (the guy who originally wrote MarsEdit, the app that I’m writing this entry in) about the freedom to make your computer your own and how that freedom is slowing eroding away. With every tightened screw we have less power than we had. And doing the things — unsanctioned, unplanned-for, often…
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Day One Morning Health Shortcut
Some folks over on the Day One Community FB group were interested in this shortcut I wrote. It computes your 7-day average for active energy and steps, asks you a few questions and creates a Day One journal entry. You will need to modify this shortcut. It’s a little tricky as it pulls health kit…
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2019-04-20 20.56.36
Was out cruising in the Atlantic Ocean this past week so broke my streak of posting but I’m back. Here’s a picture from the trip.
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Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain
I listened to this absolutely fascinating podcast yesterday. Tyler Cowen is a great interviewer and he and Boyden cover such a huge range of neuroscience topics: from mental illness to optogenetics to ketamine to meditation to blowing up bits of your brain using a material like the use in diapers so that the bits are…
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2019-04-12 15.07.12
Love it when shuffle gives you EXACTLY the right song for snaking through Red Bank traffic.</>
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2019-04-10 13.15.55
5 years ago today (thanks Day One for the reminder). Seems like we’ve done a lifetime of travel in this thing and it’s only been 5 years. #bestpurchaseever
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2019-04-10 12.22.27
Spring on Nassau St, Princeton.
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Spotify or Apple Music?
I’ve been using Spotify since July, 2011 (when it first became available in the US). It is my go-to streaming service. We’ve had the family plan for years. I use it to work on collaborative playlists with the other musicians with whom I play. I use it when I am learning new songs–being able to…
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Turn Amazon Order History into a Markdown Table for Day One
The other day I posted about using Keyboard Maestro to automate the process of getting my monthly Amazon Order history into a Day One Journal entry. That was the first step of the automation of this task. This has been a bit more challenging to automate than I was first thinking. I’m working towards this…
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2019-04-08 10.59.26
Spring!