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I recently contacted my ISP about an issue in my account; I can only see details from the (already cancelled) subscripti...

After turning on the NAS for the first time in the new place, I thought plugging it in and turning it on was the extent...

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I've really been enjoying Endel's "Colored Noise" option lately. Sometimes I'm just not in the headspace to listen to mu...

On any live concert footage you watch online, there's bound to be comments like this: > Look at all those phones! Just b...

The volume control on my Apple TV remote recently stopped working. The buttons simply would not adjust the volume like i...

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Sometimes you just need to generate a password quickly. Put this in your ~/.zshrc (or equivalent for the shell you're us...

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About a year ago, Raycast added a feature which allows you to set any key to act as the "Hyper" key (Cmd + Opt + Ctrl +...

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Since reading Getting Things Done by David Allen in 2022, I've been doing a weekly review in some form or another. It ha...

I recently acquired some .epub files that I'd like to read on my Kindle. Instead of just uploading them and dealing with...

I recently stumbled across the term "mechanical sympathy" via a (now-deleted) blog post on Luke Kuzmish's blog, and it r...

Something interesting happened at the gym the other day. I noticed a big guy getting onto the seated leg push machine af...

It's been over 2 years since I last shared my "default apps", so here's an updated list at the start of 2026: 📨 Mail: M...

My 1800+ day meditation streak broke recently, and honestly? I mostly felt free. I'd been meditating largely to keep the...

I've seen the benefits of blogging expressed all over the internet (ironically on a lot of blogs... there might be some...