Category: Technology
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Hey Siri/Shortcut Automation with 2023 Outback
Updating my “Hey Siri, Warm up the Subaru” shortcut post with parameters/options.
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Troubleshooting Linking iPad to Mac
I’m regularly struggling to get my iPad recognized by my Mac for Handoff and Keyboard/Mouse sharing. I like to be able to use a single keyboard and mouse to dive my computer and my iPad, located next to my Mac monitor. Even after making sure that they’re on the same network and signed in with…
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Netflix Viewing History to Letterboxd
After doing an export of my Netflix viewing history, I wanted to import it into Letterboxd. The date format in the Netflix export doesn’t work with Letterboxd, which wants the data as ‘YYYY-MM-DD’ so I wrote up a little python script to do the date conversion because knowing when I watched something is pretty useful.…
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Deciding Between Shaarli and Reader: A Personal Taxonomy Approach
Following several weeks of digital housekeeping, I’m determined to do a better job about being consistent about where I’m storing links, online articles, resources and various “read later” type stuff. My tools of choice are Readwise Reader and Shaarli. I’ve been pretty lax about what goes where so I spent some time thinking about how…
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Bulk import WordPress posts into Day One
This export/import process requires bouncing back and forth between the Desktop and iOS versions of Day One as the import/export feature set is very different for each version and you’ll need to leverage both feature sets.
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Nginx, WordPress & ActivityPub
I have been deep in the terminal these past few weeks whenever I get a moment or two of free time. We have had a lot of rain recently, resulting in way more free time than usual. This allowed me to sort out a bunch of issues on my new $5/month linode. I didn’t love…
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Thanks, update!
Morning after update to 15.4, all shortcuts look the same now. Not super useful, Apple:
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PESOS vs POSSE
I didn’t realize Dries founded/manages Drupal until I checked out the about page on his website. In any case, he has a really excellent comparison of PESOS vs POSSE on his site. For me, I’m just trying to find as friction-free a way to collect/post/share. After a bunch of false starts I’m leaning towards WordPress…
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Memory, time and quarantine.
“I may not be as strong as I think,” the old man said. “But I know many tricks and I have resolution.” – The Old Man and the Sea, E. Hemingway. At baseline, my memory is only so-so. For example, I can remember chord progressions to songs and lyrics only with a lot of…
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Day One and iOS/Mac Shortcuts Parity
One of the most popular Shortcuts I’ve written is my “Logging to Day One” shortcut that allows you to keep a timestamped list of items to a single day’s journal entry throughout the day. I wrote a post about it two years ago, you can read more about it here. I updated the post today…