Sal's
Sal's
Sal
I'm Sal, and this is my spot. I'm a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, and a job. Isn't that exciting?? I've had several blogs over the years and have enjoyed all of them. With each iteration, I lower my ambitions, take it less seriously, and try to have more fun. This one is another step in all of those directions, and I'm hoping it sticks around the longest. Disclaimer: I tend to write in short timeboxes and following the 70% rule. If a post seems shallow or half-baked ... yep!
Latest Posts
I’m nearing completion of a desk reorganization. Don’t we all love a good desk reorganization?? My last setup had two complete workstations side by side on my desk: Office station: Apple Studio Display, Apple Magic Keyboard, Apple Magic...
I was so tired of staring at screens by the time I finished work last night that I thought I might be over computers for a bit, but I woke up this morning eager to hack on this blog. Funny how that works.
I’m having trouble finding the time to write full posts lately; so, inspired by the two-sentence journal and other bloggers’ short-form notes, I’m going to try a new thing: two-sentence posts (TSPs). Brace for run-on sentences.
I’ve written a few posts on dabbling with Vim mode and struggling to choose between it and the macOS defaults. I think Vim mode is pulling ahead. Here are some quick notes on this in lieu of thoughtful ones. Predictably, Vim mode is...
I haven’t bothered with EditorConfig because I’ve assumed it’s about sharing configuration across a dev team, and when it comes to coding, I’m an army of one these days. But I’ve been overlooking another key part of the value prop:...
I just switched from my beloved Studio Display to a different monitor that can handle both my office work and my occasional gaming sessions. I’ve got a whole other post brewing on that, so I won’t go into it here. The new monitor is...
I got “tennis leg” two days ago. Tennis leg is an acute strain of the large calf muscle. I found some other guy detailing is journey with it, and that was helpful to me, so I figured I’d do the same. I’ll update this as things progress....
Our trip to Italy made me once again wonder with a tinge of frustration why the U.S. doesn’t use the metric system. Well, I finally got around to looking this up, and it turns out things could have been different! As NPR reports, Thomas...
It was supposed to be overcast all weekend, but we got lucky. Beautiful out here.
Thanks to Chris for his post, Superscript and Subscript Line Heights, which helped me fix my busted footnote superscript styling. Here’s an example of what my blog looked like a few hours ago: See how the space between the first and...
I wrote earlier about reworking my blog so that I manage it remotely over SSH. Here’s an update on that. TLDR: success! Connecting I use Zed’s Remote Development to edit my blog content and run git commands over SSH. It works really...
Writing to share the Alfred team’s latest blog post: Handcrafted with Care: Alfred’s Core Values I use Alfred constantly all day long, and I feel these values in action as I do. I appreciate how the team has stayed true to these values...
I try not to write or even think much about AI because I find it so … ugh. But this struck me. From Anil Dash’s post, The Majority AI View, which I found in Nicolas’s May links: One of the reasons we don’t hear about [the more] popular,...
I know I know, 2020 called and wants its exercise bike back. I was about to buy one of these a year ago, but then I got a screaming deal on a different “smart bike” (a Stages SB20) that can send power and cadence data to apps like Zwift....
Puppy wrote a post, the appeal of lowercase text. There are several comments on Bubbles disagreeing, saying that lowercase posts are hard to read. I won’t agree or disagree with the commenters. I believe they are being honest about their...