I’ve been busy lately so I haven’t had much time at all for any kind of hobby, especially this blog. I want to clean it up, change some things, figure out a home page layout I like. At some point I want to start some sort of link dump/weeknotes format. I’m also not sure about posting photos. I really like the idea of my...

If you prefer having Night Shift turned off when watching a movie on your Apple device, for example, these shortcuts will toggle it off and on automatically so you don’t have to open Control Center.

Disable Night Shift

This shortcut will simply disable Night Shift.

You will need to set up an automation to run when opening...

This Obsidian plugin can grab RSS feeds and put articles in a specified folder. While a traditional RSS reader is better suited for most situations, something like this can still be handy for making backups of your posts, for example.

Open in Obsidian

Open in GitHub

Some YouTube videos I enjoyed this year, ordered by release date:

Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think

https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?si=VdAQWWjmeB-OjPDf

Algorithmic complacency, if not noticed and acted upon, means you're allowing other people who are not you to decide what matters to you.

The State of Personal Online...

I've seen a lot of people do this so I figured it would be fun to share mine. Inspired by the Hemispheric Views podcast.

📨 Mail Client: Fastmail

📮 Mail Server: Fastmail

📝 Notes: Obsidian, Drafts

✅ To-Do: Things

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera, sometimes Halide

🟦 Photo Management: Apple Photos

📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar

📁...

Obsidian is one of my favorite apps. I use it every day at work to stay organized and take notes. Below is an outline of my current setup.

Note Organization

I try to keep things simple using folders. The main ones are:

_Inbox

Daily Notes

Jira Issues

Meetings

Misc

Support Tickets

Tasks

A folder for general notes about the...

This shortcut does the following:

Toggle White Point (dims screen more)

Turn orientation lock on

Set brightness to 5%

Set media volume to 0%

This can be useful if you set up an automation to run the shortcut at bedtime and when you wake up in the morning.

Get shortcut

Unhook

This is a neat extension that will hide all the stuff on YouTube you don’t need.

Hello world.