Journal

202535

  1. How Claude Helped Me Stage Manage a Conference (While the Governor Called the White House)

    Thoughts
  2. Dial-a-site—yes, you can call that website using the Internet Phone Book ⇝

    Links
  3. Websites should not ask me to add a Passkey while I am logging to your site!

    Thoughts
  4. Tip: Use AI to Help Convert a Make.com Workflow to a n8n Workflow

    Thoughts
  5. How to Connect a Monday.com Webhook to your n8n Workflow

    Thoughts
  6. My $100 Claude Code Subscription is a Steal (for me), and I Have the Receipts to Prove It

    Thoughts
  7. It’s the little details, like a curvy, wavy highlighting blue line ⇝

    Links
  8. Losing the Signal: How My “Perfect” Tool Revealed a Deeper Problem with Time

    Thoughts
  9. English in, CLI out: Natural Language is Sweet

    Thoughts
  10. Power Users Are Stuck Between the Desktop Website and a Limited Mobile App

    Thoughts
  11. Dropped Service Calls, Sludge, and F it, I Don’t Care

    Thoughts
  12. The Lazy (and Efficient Way) to Sort and Label My Interview Video Footage for My Clients

    Thoughts
  13. Why I Can’t Ignore the Wobbly Chair or Table at Every Restaurant and Coffee Shop

    Thoughts
  14. SSDs Have Spoiled Me (and How a 22 TB Backup Drive is Teaching Me to Trim My Files)

    Thoughts
  15. The Perils of Large File Transfers over Web Browsers (aka why WeTransfer is annoying me)

    Thoughts
  16. WP Kontext Gen – Use Flux Kontext via Replicate Directly in your WP Dashboard

    Thoughts
  17. PSA: Dropbox nukes your permissions if you use the Backup feature and macOS Tahoe Beta 1 or 2 (learn how to fix)

    Thoughts
  18. Deep Research and the drive to create more private data moats ⇝

    Links
  19. Not knowing what’s real anymore ⇝

    Links
  20. The balance between roll-your-own and cloud infra ⇝

    Links
  21. Web dev to software dev is a hell-bending minefield ⇝

    Links
  22. I dream about 10Gbps Internet, impractical as it may be

    Thoughts
  23. Get more context with in your AI with MCP, pronto ⇝

    Links
  24. Yes, I do watch YouTube through my TV ⇝

    Links
  25. The zen of blogging ⇝

    Links
  26. Take 20 minutes to write your prompts. Yes, seriously.

    Thoughts
  27. Shifting the perspective to “professional” from “personal” ⇝

    Links
  28. Make Software for One (and then some)

    Thoughts
  29. More Jobs and More Automation than Ever ⇝

    Links
  30. Complete Umami Analytics Install and Upgrade Guide for RunCloud

    Thoughts
  31. How to Compile and Use Untrunc to Fix Your Video On a Mac and Alternatives to Try

    Thoughts
  32. Make a Task List to Keep Up with Friends

    Thoughts
  33. Mario game typography color is worthy of analysis ⇝

    Links
  34. AI coding is an unreliable slot machine that I’m addicted to

    Thoughts
  35. My AI is…chuckling?

    Thoughts

202419

  1. Apple Music Listening History Converter

    Thoughts
  2. Tip: Pastebin Alternative Built Into Warp, One-Click Command Sharing

    Thoughts
  3. Ghandi’s remarkably prescient words on civilization’s greatest tests

    Thoughts
  4. The sound has a name: Shave and a Haircut

    Thoughts
  5. Finally getting those gigabytes to move on the internet thanks to local LLMs

    Thoughts
  6. Don’t pull apart the petals, enjoy the flower as is

    Thoughts
  7. “Write because ideas matter, not authorship”

    Thoughts
  8. I feel like a spreadsheet superstar with GPT-4 as my sidekick

    Thoughts
  9. Paying for search? Yes, yes I do. Kagi changed my mind.

    Thoughts
  10. The Bait and Switch of Donorbox, Amazon, and Other Companies Should Not Be Rewarded With Our Dollars

    Thoughts
  11. Anyone sick of paying for GPT-4 (using official ChatGPT client in browser) and having such a terrible SLA/constantly failing/stalling out/erroring out?

    Thoughts
  12. Must Listen: The Boy and the Heron Original Soundtrack

    Thoughts
  13. The “Personal” in Personal Computer Starts with My Shortcuts

    Thoughts
  14. Love glitching out my Apple Watch

    Thoughts
  15. Use Moom for Quick 1080p or 720p Resizing of Any Mac Window

    Thoughts
  16. How to Manually Restore Your Website with InfiniteWP Backups

    Thoughts
  17. Bluetooth pains, are they really a thing of the past?

    Thoughts
  18. Just unstar and move forward, don’t let the RSS weigh you down

    Thoughts
  19. How many bridges and tunnels does NYC truly have?

    Thoughts

202317

  1. Customizing DaVinci Resolve to make Horizontal scrolling work with the Shift Key instead of CMD on Mac

    Thoughts
  2. Navigating the Ethical Odyssey of AI, the Dance of Progress, and Ourselves

    Thoughts
  3. Rewatching old TV is pointing a mirror at yourself

    Thoughts
  4. Internet Explorer is dead…finally! (haven’t we been saying this for years now…)

    Thoughts
  5. Familiar WordPress lands meet shiny static site generators and my web dev quest continues

    Thoughts
  6. Break glass in case of creative rut. Literally.

    Thoughts
  7. A spark of joy in micro scripts for your own workflows

    Thoughts
  8. Quick color name to hex code generation with ChatGPT

    Thoughts
  9. Dropbox’s power being stripped away by Apple’s poor File Provider API substitution

    Thoughts
  10. But, for everyone else, electric knife sharpeners are more convenient

    Thoughts
  11. When do you turn on Stage Manager anyway?

    Thoughts
  12. Meditative animations with Processing

    Thoughts
  13. I like embracing the newness of macOS releases

    Thoughts
  14. Own your domain and limit your exposure to tech giants’ rules

    Thoughts
  15. When you’re drinking the Kool-Aid of views, Algorithms, and “Heating”, how do you stop?

    Thoughts
  16. Anyone prefer TV over movies? *raises hand*

    Thoughts
  17. Enough Signs For Me. Just Gotta Write.

    Thoughts

20221

  1. Getting rich from going viral is a formula still being made

    Thoughts

20181

  1. “So…why haven’t you posted an article lately?”

    Thoughts

201717

  1. I’m moving to Washington D.C.

    Thoughts
  2. Putting money where my mouth is

    Thoughts
  3. ​Today was the 2nd anniversary of my father’s death

    Thoughts
  4. Replacing headphones on a Sena SMH10-11 Bluetooth Communicator

    Thoughts
  5. Hotkeys not triggering with Finder folders in Alfred workflows?

    Thoughts
  6. I’m a budding motorcycle mechanic hitting my limits

    Thoughts
  7. Motorcycle wipeout by a friend

    Thoughts
  8. Mounting an EZ-Pass toll reader on my Honda Rebel 250

    Thoughts
  9. Installing an aftermarket driver back rest on a Honda Rebel 250

    Thoughts
  10. Replacing the rear lights is a wiring nightmare on my Honda Rebel

    Thoughts
  11. Installing a passenger back rest/sissy bar with a luggage rack for Honda Rebel 250

    Thoughts
  12. Replacing the clutch perch on my 2009 Honda Rebel 250

    Thoughts
  13. Dropbox’s background update is using excessive CPU on my Mac

    Thoughts
  14. Why did Honda only provide a screwdriver for the 2009 Rebel 250 tool compartment?

    Thoughts
  15. Amazon Echo Look has a good chance of leading the camera-focused and connected future

    Thoughts
  16. Auto save IDML files when you close an InDesign document

    Thoughts
  17. My thoughts on Warren Buffet’s Letter to Berkshire Shareholders

    Thoughts

20168

  1. Solving the mystery of HDMI handshake issues with my Apple TV and Yamaha Receiver

    Thoughts
  2. Pasting and formatting rich text in InDesign

    Thoughts
  3. Breaking in new tires on my scooter, and a horse in traffic

    Thoughts
  4. Attempted theft on my scooter using a pen ink cartridge

    Thoughts
  5. Tiny Alfred Workflow: Current Tab in Google Chrome’s Incognito

    Thoughts
  6. Tiny Alfred Workflow: Genius “I’m Lucky” Lyrics

    Thoughts
  7. An ode to virtualization on the Mac

    Thoughts
  8. Hey Adobe, hijacking the cursor is so 1997

    Thoughts

20153

  1. Mentioning your competitor in an ad does not constitute a trademark violation

    Thoughts
  2. NYS is working to increase minimum wage for tipped workers to $7.50

    Thoughts
  3. Hubris of human bees

    Thoughts

201450

  1. Looks by Dr. Dre + Subtraction.com

    Thoughts
  2. Ramadan is going mainstream. Why buck the trend?

    Thoughts
  3. Inspecting Yosemite’s Icons

    Thoughts
  4. Why Foursquare has the potential to kill Yelp, and then Google…

    Thoughts
  5. I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are

    Thoughts
  6. » Nostalgia and Newspapers Clay Shirky

    Thoughts
  7. Yo – Ian Bogost – The Atlantic

    Thoughts
  8. The End of Cuisine – NYTimes.com

    Thoughts
  9. How normal is being redefined?

    Thoughts
  10. Intention

    Thoughts
  11. The Art of Eyeballing – Part II: Learning To See

    Thoughts
  12. Swift has me thinking about programming languages

    Thoughts
  13. How To Code HTML5 Video Background In Email

    Thoughts
  14. Because getting a job isn’t already difficult

    Thoughts
  15. “Calling a developer a coder is like a tourist calling San Francisco Frisco”

    Thoughts
  16. Helvetica Neue leads the charge for better displays

    Thoughts
  17. Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes

    Thoughts
  18. I’m New Here

    Thoughts
  19. “Avoiding Business school” is a one-sided perspective that doesn’t see the real-world value

    Thoughts
  20. TrueCrypt security audit presses on

    Thoughts
  21. Snowden and The Wire’s Season 2 have more in common than Snowden realizes

    Thoughts
  22. When it comes to design, nothing is ever settled for good

    Thoughts
  23. Uber just gave lobby fodder to every Taxi commission

    Thoughts
  24. Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel created Snapchat to mask his insecurities

    Thoughts
  25. Block Inversions by Corporations to limit American tax dollar losses

    Thoughts
  26. 50 Ways to Get a Job

    Thoughts
  27. “TrueCrypt is not secure”

    Thoughts
  28. It’s official. Apple bought Beats.

    Thoughts
  29. Drive development with budgets, not estimates

    Thoughts
  30. Apps that know about you before you do (and I’m okay with that)

    Thoughts
  31. Tradition is non-existent in technology

    Thoughts
  32. Working should be like breathing: stop and started at regular intervals

    Thoughts
  33. The Study of Wu or how some questions have no answer

    Thoughts
  34. How to talk to your inner perfectionist

    Thoughts
  35. Businesses need to hire copywriters with direction

    Thoughts
  36. What does a Product Designer Do?

    Thoughts
  37. Drawing bezier curves with less points, more accuracy, and better results

    Thoughts
  38. Words have different signals to different people. Which one will you choose to make your point?

    Thoughts
  39. My workflow for building a parallax or animated website

    Thoughts
  40. Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs and ride through red lights

    Thoughts
  41. Curing the Anxiety of Trains Deferred from their Appointed Times

    Thoughts
  42. On social media, we don’t try to exist. We just try to be visible.

    Thoughts
  43. Anecdote: The purpose of an indent in a paragraph start

    Thoughts
  44. Here is an AppleScript to create layers automatically in InDesign

    Thoughts
  45. Use a clearance color to remove stray/extra color palettes in InDesign

    Thoughts
  46. How to use Avery Templates in InDesign

    Thoughts
  47. Multiple Records not showing up when you Data Merge in InDesign? Tips to make it all flow

    Thoughts
  48. Hello, Stranger (on the subway)

    Thoughts
  49. Starting the MTA Map Project

    Thoughts
  50. What’s after RSS? The next channel of news.

    Thoughts

20135

  1. I’m trying to learn how to program, and that’s okay

    Thoughts
  2. iOS 7: forward-thinking design and engineering

    Thoughts
  3. Making snap judgments before using iOS 7

    Thoughts
  4. A Windex Ritual

    Thoughts
  5. The train ride

    Thoughts

201292

  1. Exchanging ideas

    Thoughts
  2. Books are a glance inside someone’s mind

    Thoughts
  3. Advertising virus

    Thoughts
  4. At least they stab you in the front

    Thoughts
  5. A series of moments

    Thoughts
  6. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow…

    Thoughts
  7. Try to be alive; breathe deeply

    Thoughts
  8. A review of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

    Thoughts
  9. The Future Is In the Clouds

    Thoughts
  10. Straight out of Halo

    Thoughts
  11. The Artform of Care

    Thoughts
  12. Ode to Chillies

    Thoughts
  13. The Writing Revolution

    Thoughts
  14. One day of activity for NY Subway

    Thoughts
  15. The evolution of Daft Punk is dubstep

    Thoughts
  16. Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web

    Thoughts
  17. Writing an unforgettable college essay

    Thoughts
  18. Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?

    Thoughts
  19. The problem with endless musical choice

    Thoughts
  20. The Day After

    Thoughts
  21. “This isn’t a game. It’s my life.”

    Thoughts
  22. The ultimate goal

    Thoughts
  23. Something flickered at the edges of conscious perception

    Thoughts
  24. Behold, the light

    Thoughts
  25. Moved to emulate

    Thoughts
  26. Great Artists Steal

    Thoughts
  27. The distance

    Thoughts
  28. Le Miroir

    Thoughts
  29. Foggy bottom

    Thoughts
  30. Nite fall

    Thoughts
  31. Words of Mass Emotional Disruption

    Thoughts
  32. Project Blow Job

    Thoughts
  33. The luminaries of the skies

    Thoughts
  34. Tackling the problem again

    Thoughts
  35. The Manhattan Project

    Thoughts
  36. Pantone Skin Tones

    Thoughts
  37. Twitter’s Bird Lost Some Weight

    Thoughts
  38. Well, I did feel bad…

    Thoughts
  39. Love is the answer to everything

    Thoughts
  40. If Social Media Sites Were Boyfriends

    Thoughts
  41. Ars Technica does it again with its review of Photoshop CS6

    Thoughts
  42. Momentary bonding with family

    Thoughts
  43. Do you sense the shift of your mind?

    Thoughts
  44. Criss-crossing smoke to locate the fire

    Thoughts
  45. Listen, Think, & Speak

    Thoughts
  46. Will Work for Love T-Shirt Concept

    Thoughts
  47. In My Mind by Tiësto

    Thoughts
  48. Adobe CS6 Branding Process

    Thoughts
  49. Heartless by The Fray

    Thoughts
  50. Emerging from the NYC Subway

    Thoughts
  51. The beast asleep within my aorta

    Thoughts
  52. Capturing the self

    Thoughts
  53. Lonesomeness

    Thoughts
  54. the lens

    Thoughts
  55. clanging thoughts

    Thoughts
  56. This Muslim-American Life

    Thoughts
  57. Find a place for our hearts to rest

    Thoughts
  58. Ring the doorbell

    Thoughts
  59. The weight of writing

    Thoughts
  60. Reinventing the human heart

    Thoughts
  61. What makes a great designer?

    Thoughts
  62. Time is a choice, you can spend it differently

    Thoughts
  63. The Go-Nowhere Generation

    Thoughts
  64. Revere the process of creativity

    Thoughts
  65. Fail better

    Thoughts
  66. Bohr’s definition of expert

    Thoughts
  67. Bronx Science: not a particularly driven enviornment

    Thoughts
  68. The Great Social Equalizer

    Thoughts
  69. New York is made for you.

    Thoughts
  70. All day, every day, 24-7.

    Thoughts
  71. Moroccan brass

    Thoughts
  72. Boulevard of lights

    Thoughts
  73. Train chasm

    Thoughts
  74. Uncle floppy cakes

    Thoughts
  75. Steve Jobs, Superhero

    Thoughts
  76. Educational pies

    Thoughts
  77. The shadow

    Thoughts
  78. Glass triangles

    Thoughts
  79. Keep riding the bicycle

    Thoughts
  80. It’s the whipped cream that counts

    Thoughts
  81. ‘Dropbox Inventor Determined to Build the Next Apple or Google’

    Thoughts
  82. Do Great Things

    Thoughts
  83. Going with your gut in App development

    Thoughts
  84. What Is College For?

    Thoughts
  85. Curve up higher

    Thoughts
  86. Are smart people ugly?

    Thoughts
  87. Oil painted skies

    Thoughts
  88. Peeling type from the subway tiles

    Thoughts
  89. In Between You & Me is a Bank

    Thoughts
  90. The HPs guard Apple

    Thoughts
  91. Consume, create, collaborate, repeat

    Thoughts
  92. Better – Merlin Mann

    Thoughts

201134

  1. …and it’s done!

    Thoughts
  2. Prepping salmon

    Thoughts
  3. NJ Light rail tracks

    Thoughts
  4. The finest American construction

    Thoughts
  5. Standard Type signage

    Thoughts
  6. Closed-minded vs. Idea Sex

    Thoughts
  7. Go vintage

    Thoughts
  8. It’s your frame of mind

    Thoughts
  9. Splashing sunset

    Thoughts
  10. Liquid metal

    Thoughts
  11. Light me on fire

    Thoughts
  12. Mysterious pizza neon

    Thoughts
  13. Retro keyboards at Target

    Thoughts
  14. The one door train

    Thoughts
  15. Democracy

    Thoughts
  16. Sidewalk kufis

    Thoughts
  17. Where art thou shadow?

    Thoughts
  18. Prayer is approaching…

    Thoughts
  19. Break me off a piece!

    Thoughts
  20. Split the sky

    Thoughts
  21. Perfection in train construction

    Thoughts
  22. Large, metal type

    Thoughts
  23. Desktops are obsolete

    Thoughts
  24. His old smile

    Thoughts
  25. The snow has begun to fall

    Thoughts
  26. Light Chase

    Thoughts
  27. Light-hearted Memories

    Thoughts
  28. Blocks of text…and for what?

    Thoughts
  29. Aptitude declining, intelligence waning

    Thoughts
  30. Slow Sleep

    Thoughts
  31. The Train at Sunnyside Station

    Thoughts
  32. Only one son

    Thoughts
  33. Discussion Points

    Thoughts
  34. Fear and Joy

    Thoughts

20102

  1. The 3rd Writing Method

    Thoughts
  2. Fictional Account from an Anonymous US Official

    Thoughts