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As you may have noticed by my propensity for footnotes sidenotes I love asides. Likewise there are a lot of small things I come across that either aren't meaty enough for a full post, or trend so narrowly technical that I feel hesitant...
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I recently brought back Dog-a-Day which requires me to source a bunch of high resolution Flickr photos. In the interim five years since when I was last doing this, Flickr has started limiting download resolutions uploaded by free accounts:
Back in college I ran a service called Dog-a-Day, where I emailed subscribers a picture of a dog every day, along with a fun caption. This was initially just a Christmas present for my dad but it spiraled into a full service with some...
I bought a cheap push-button combination lock and fell down a rabbit hole when I realized it didn't matter what order you entered the code in. I ended up doing a teardown of the entire mechanism and designing some 3D models to explain...
I used to use [Mint](https://mint.intuit.com/) as my budgeting software until [it shut down in March 2024](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/business/mint-app-closing-intuit.html). As a replacement I swapped over to...
I was watching The Killing the other day, Kubrick's third feature film from 1956. Coming in at just 85 minutes, it’s a lean well-told story of a racetrack heist. But for all of the nonlinear storytelling, and noir aesthetics, and tangled...
Because the default Apple Podcasts on macOS only allows you to copy 200 words of transcript at a time, I built a quick website back in January that allows you to view and copy the full thing. It mostly works great, but some users...
I was hitting a problem where some VSCode plugins I use were erroring out when running commands. After slowly paring away at their source code, I realized that they were failing for the same reason: they were calling scripts that were...
The QR codes for Fitness SF started changing. I had previously created an Apple Wallet pass that would automatically open the code up when you arrived. This stopped scanning at the end of May, and although updating my member ID...
Like I said in my last post, I'm a big fan of my phone being in grayscale, which helps reduce screentime. This is a quick guide on how to set that up using Shortcuts in a way that automatically disables it for certain apps like Photos...
I am a big fan of my phone being in grayscale, which reduces screentime and cuts into into how attention-grabbing the bright red app badges are. The problem is that I don't want all apps to be in grayscale: some because they're...
Letterboxd has an API but it's available by request only. This is why in the past my projects have either relied on their export functionality (like Letterboxd Gaps) or simple webscraping. This works well when you only need your own...
Reddit has been recently ramping up their "Popular post in" and other community notifications. I find these all incredibly low value, and want to turn them off. There's no UI for turning everywhere—just individually per subreddit. But we...
There was a recent tweet I saw saying "I’m willing to bet my entire net worth on neither the median nor the average American reading 11 books a year." There's a lot of people pushing back on it, but all citing different reasons why the...