Author: sjwillis
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Tahoe, cron job failure & iCloud
After updating to Tahoe (and this may be just coincidence) all of my cron jobs on my Mac starting erroring out. The only telling error I could find in one of my logs was: After double checking almost every permission setting I could find, I discovered that my iCloud Drive settings had switched to “Optimize…
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Location Tracking w/ iPhone and Home Assistant
[Update, Jan 2026 – this approach was garbage. I installed the iCloud3 add on and have had much better luck. This is a bit more of a challenge to setup but WAY more reliable/flexible than the approach below.] I have a few home assistant automations that would really benefit from knowing who is home, who…
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Wheelbuilding
well, not from scratch, but I laced a new rim to my front hub this week with a minimal tool setup using mostly zip ties on my fork for a truing stand and a cheap spoke tension meter though, to be fair, once I got the tension close I relied a lot upon the pitch…
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Sometimes Readwise resurfaces exactly the right quote from 6 years ago that you need today:“Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place.” From this 2018 piece by Tim Wu in the nytimes Also on:…
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Ride Report 2025-02-08
A few thoughts on my first multi-surface ride with the Joe Appaloosa. View from the Oceanic Bridge towards Red Bank. I hate the cold. I hate being cold. I hate going out in the cold. From November until May I am cold. Which is to say that for me to get out for a ride…
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HomeAssistant Logs
Here’s a quick one-liner to tail -f home assistant logs from a docker image. I’m sure there are better ways to do this but I got tired of typing a bunch of commands so finally figured out this one liner to save: Assumes your homeassistant docker image is called ‘homeassistant’ then add this to .bashrc
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Update Moode Library w/ cron
To schedule the moOde library update to happen every night, you can use a cron job with the ‘mpc update’ command. Here’s how to set it up: This cron job will run the ‘mpc update’ command at 00:00 (midnight) every day, which will update the moOde library[2]. Replace with the directory you want to update[2].…
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Open Outlook for iOS to Calendar
iOS Users: Sharing this iOS shortcut despite its very limited use case. My dog has a longer/better attention span than I do. As a result, whenever I open Outlook on my iPhone to check my calendar, I immediately get distracted by whatever emails are at the top of my inbox and forget that I was…
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Friendly warning for new users of #linkding. RTFM. This little gem is buried in the instructions: “Note that the command above will store the linkding SQLite database in the container, which means that deleting the container, for example when upgrading the installation, will also remove the database. For hosting an actual installation you usually want…
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Mentioning here how helpful the native Mac OS app Yate is for cleaning up FLAC tags. The “Mickey Hart” mix versions of Workingman’s were intermingled with the original album release and Yate was the right tool for the job to rename the album to Workingman’s Dead (Mickey Hart Mix). https://2manyrobots.com/yate/ Also on: website