Tag: personal technology
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audio & self-hosting updates
It’s been a busy few weeks as I reorient myself from the warm-weather version of me that spends almost zero time on personal technology projects to the cold-weather version of me that spend most of my time on personal technology projects. As always, I know I contain multitudes but sometimes the difference between some of…
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Reminders Quick Entry
I was looking for a quick way to add reminders to Apple Reminders on my Mac similar to Things hotkey quick entry. There are several out there that I found through Google but ultimately landed on this one for its simplicity and natural language processing: https://github.com/surrealroad/alfred-reminders Also on: website
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POSSE WP->Mastodon
I wish that it were possible to leverage WordPress’ post formats (status, aside, etc.) to trigger crossposting. In the absence of that functionality I’m working with Jan’s excellent WordPress to Mastodon plugin, making a couple of minor mods: Here’s the code I’m using: I’m going to sit with this for a while. I think the…
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What is Nature?
I’m not sure there is much wisdom in arbitrarily distinguishing between natural and unnatural.
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Read: A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
I’m becoming more and more convinced that the people who are most well-positioned to leverage GenAI in its current form are those who are skilled at precise language. When you think about programming languages like Perl, Python or PHP, they’re really just language that is trying to communicate something without ambiguity to a computer. Prompting…
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Re-listening
The shift to hosting a personal Navidrome server has shifted my listening habits, fostering more repeated listening contrasted with Apple Music’s constant novelty aspect.
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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…