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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)…
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Apple One
Signed up. It’s a no-brainer for my family as we were already on the 2TB cloud storage plan. AppleTV+ It’s got Ted Lasso. Enough said. kidding. Still AppleTV+ has some terrific stuff on it. And Ted Lasso. Apple News+ I’ve hated Apple News ever since it started asking me if I wanted to open RSS…
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Alan Jacobs – Breaking Bread with the Dead
Jacobs writes about Personal Density in the context of how our current media consumption via The Feed of social media comes at such volume and pressure that our now is becoming more and more compressed and narrow. What seemed so important to us just last week has already faded from our attention as quickly as…
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Doing the math on Apple Watch 6 vs. SE
I think my next Apple Watch will almost certainly have cellular data on it. I love running in the woods without my phone (using just my watch and AirPods) but could definitely see the benefit of being able to call someone from my phone in an emergency. The biggest difference (besides price) between the 6…
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Amazon quietly removes ability to download order history
At the end of each month, I run an Automator process on my Mac that loads that month’s Amazon Order History file into a markdown table in Day One. I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now and it’s useful for a whole bunch of reasons. When did I buy something? Just search…
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Library Management of Live Grateful Dead Matrix Recordings
For the past several months I’ve been using Roon audio server to handle my home hi-fi listening. It’s a slightly pricey subscription model for what I use it for and I’m actively looking for an alternative. Basically, I just want a box that holds a bunch of lossless audio files and serves them up to…
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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…