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2025

  • Buttoned Up: The Elgato Stream Deck In Action An Elgato Stream Deck is a wonderful tool for any power user. I’ve been a happy user for …

  • Gatekeeping 103: Keeping Apps from Appearing in Your Mac's Dock via Handoff If you run multiple Apple devices, you might notice that apps from your other devices occasionally …

2024

  • Albums That Jay Bellerose Has Played Drums On, Collected For No Reason At All And Arranged Neither By Quality Nor Relevance Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk (2011), Didn’t It Rain (2013) Aimee Mann: Lost In Space (2002), The …

  • Getting Tubular with the Dayton Audio HTA100 I’m the proud new caretaker of a Dayton Audio hybrid tube amplifier. I’ve wanted to get …

2023

  • Re: Rapid Log, I’ve established a daily log in Obsidian and installed the Actions for Obsidian app …

  • Love optimized charging. Sits patiently after gassing up to top off before I get up around 6.

  • Thinking about the idea of a daily rapid log that gets archived every night. Supported by something …

  • Linking an Omnifocus Perspective to an iOS Focus Mode I’d love to build a basic automation in Omnifocus that allows me to tie a focus mode to …

  • Automating a Music Library Disaster with Hazel A few months ago, Apple’s Music app decided I needed to back up my music. At least, …

  • Current home screens— I’m working on stripping out as many icons as possible and replacing them with …

  • I’m fascinated by workspaces and studios. I love to see the infrastructure behind creation and …

  • The Only Thing Worse than Being Seen is not Being Seen From an interesting piece on The Verge: They each seem to have spontaneously discovered that …

  • This week in TikTok File under “Well this certainly won’t help your case, Jim.” TikTok Browser Can …

  • “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

  • Have you seen this cat?

  • Please always remember that the only one who wins is Mr. McBean.

2022

  • I’ve never been more proud of an Arkham Horror deck title than I am for my “Darrell Simmons, the …

  • “Gentle on the ear you whisper softly, rumors of a dawn so embracing. Breathless love awaits …

  • The point of art is encounter, experience– if you’re continually framing that encounter …

  • Lynch on Creativity and Ideation: “I get ideas in fragments…it’s as if in the other room, there’s a puzzle; …

  • You’ve heard of “Elf on a Shelf.” Now get ready for:

  • Combatting the desire to spend the rest of the day watching Camelot and lying on the couch.

  • What is “enough screens?”

  • The Consulting Industry Is Fun and isn't Degrading Us At All Small thought: Twitter might be “the hellsite,” but one observation– the layers of …

  • Christmas Essentials: Frosted Windowpanes, Cold Weather, Upscale Niche Consumer Goods Christmas Trees Trimmed in Irony, NYTimes “American consumers’ spending on winter holidays …

  • George Winston's "December" and the Vibes of Winter It’s the time of year to break out my favorite Christmas record– George Winston’s …

  • An Iridescent Holiday Counter Culture’s new winter blend “Iridescent” has arrived! I’m excited to put this one into …

  • Rent Control and Evictions: “Rent control policies seek to ensure affordable and stable housing for current tenants; …

  • The Canadian Press Newsroom, Toronto- U.D.

  • The writer’s room at The Awl, circa 2015 From The Verge

  • “The Courier” newsroom, April 1950, Urbana, IL

  • Subjecting our mental health discourse to the whims of an advertising-based content economy was …

  • Reading at lunch today: [Local politics] www.news-gazette.com/news/my-t…

  • Morning Music: Young Gun Silver Fox, “Ticket to Shangri-La” A new album from YGSF is …