I’m back into some longform writing, and have been looking at the best editor to work through a manuscript. In searching I stumbled across a solution to a problem I struggled with for years. Sometimes, while typing on the Mac in Ulysses, my cursor inserter would magically jump up
In the past I’ve taken breaks from infinity wells. It’s time to take another break. I’m committing to myself to take a pause from the infinity wells that draw me in most and distract me from doing the things that I care about. So, until Dec 7
A friend recently asked me for tips on illustrating. He’s writing content for a specific topic, and wants to include visuals to explain the ideas. A few tips I suggested to him: 1. Just start sketching - If you can draw a stick figure with arrows and labels, you can
Sometimes I find myself in a state of incompleteness. There’s so much to be done and not enough energy left. When life includes many important things, it seems impossible to do them all. Sometimes days feel like Hal changing a lightbulb. Today I sat down and played with something
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I wrote earlier this year about my favorite smoothie recipe. Today I was chatting about smoothies and mentioned another recipe I enjoy, and was asked to share it as well. So here it is! * 2-3 bananas * 3 cups milk * ½ cup peanut butter * 14 cubes ice * 2 tablespoons honey * 2
I’m a huge fan of voice memos. I’ve been using them on iMessage for years to message friends. One of the recent tricks I learned is you can swipe across the voice memo. Sometimes I inadvertently end a message early and need to relisten, so imagine my joy
An amazing video by Cabel Sasser has been floating around the internet the last week. If you’re one of the lucky 10,000 who haven’t seen it yet, my pitch is simple. If you love anything, want to create anything, and ever wonder about your purpose in this
On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. The islands would be handed over to the neighboring island country of Mauritius, about 1,100 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa.
A few weeks ago I picked up some new books, including The Wild Robot, book 1. Since it’s an easy read I went through a few chapters each night with the kids. Last week we watched the new movie together as a family, and my wife and I were
A reminder to anyone in the path of adverse weather, if you have an iPhone 14 or later, you can upgrade to iOS 18 and text loved ones for free via Satellite. I’ve tested this with my wife on the tallest peak in Idaho and it works amazingly. You
Those of us still rocking AirPods with Lightning ports finally have a way to upgrade them to USB-C that doesn’t require complicated modifications or the cost of completely replacing the case. I threw this weird looking case on my list and thought about buying it. But really it’
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review. I’ve tried ChatGPT and its variants with development tasks. For someone who is still relatively knew at coing, I’ve