Category: Technology
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Twitter
My journal entry from 17 years ago today was a copy of a message i sent out to few friends of mine: So but anyway, I’m sjwillis on Twitter. If you’re not signed up, you should check it out. You can go to Twitter to do so or you can do it right from your…
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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:
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Meta/AI and wearables
Nilay Patel and Mark Zuckerberg Podcast notes: – I’m on board with the idea that computing’s future is shifting away from mobile towards wearables, likely eyeglasses. Might be worth looking into Luxottica investments given their Facebook partnership. – The concept of companies using AI chatbots as customer-facing agents with real agency? Yes, I can see…
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Mac admin utilities
Grabbed this list off a reddit discussion, some good ones that I’d forgotten: Also on:
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AI/LLM Interfaces
I’m testing out msty as a way to compare some different AI tools. The ability to create “knowledge stacks” (and, moreover, use different models for embedding that knowledge for RAG) is really amazing. Here I took some VW training materials and couple of YouTube links and created a “Volkswagen Vanagon” knowledge stack using 2 different…
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Setting Default Display
Struggling to get my Keyboard Maestro macros to open up my apps on my external monitor when it’s plugged in to my laptop. Digging through the forums it seemed like a lot of work to try to do this programmatically. Being lazy, I looked for an alternate solution and found it under System Settings->Display->Arrange.. By…
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Installing Python on New Mac
As per this great video (on maintaining local python environments using pyenv), the Python that comes built into the Mac is for the Mac to use, not for programmers to use! Moreover, sudo should be unnecessary when working with installing modules, etc. for python. This magic is achievable by doing the following: Install Homebrew The…
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Fixing one channel audio in iPad videos
When making quickie recording videos with my iPad and audio interface, I’m just using the built in iPad camera for the video. It picks up my mic via the usb interface but only records to the left channel (presumably if I added a 2nd mic to my 2 channel interface I’d get left/right but 2…
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On Mic Preamps
I recently rewired my home studio and added the capacity to include some outboard gear in the process. Over the past few weeks I’ve been doing some recordings to work out the kinks and get set up to record a new batch of originals that I’ve been working on. As is inevitable once my recording…
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Guitar Resources page
I’m building out a page with resources I use for learning/practicing guitar but as I’m building it I’m thinking it would be much better with a database on the backend to store this information rather than just writing a bunch of text. I feel like there’s got to be a way to do this (sql…