neilsardesai/Manila: A Finder extension for changing folder colors:
Manila is a Finder extension that lets you change the colors of your folders from the context menu.
2022.03.21.
2022.03.08.
Read “My Life in 3×5 – Rhoneisms“.
2022.02.23.
Bookmarked “Winnie Lim » this website as a learning and reflection tool“:
This website is essentially a repository of my memories, lessons I’ve learnt, insights I’ve discovered, a changelog of my previous selves. Most people build a map of things they have learnt, I am building a map of how I have come to be, in case I may get lost again. Maybe someone else interested in a similar lonely path will feel less alone with my documented footprints. Maybe that someone else would be me in the future. Maybe all of this would be interesting when I am dead, assuming I find a way to keep this site alive.
2022.01.31.
Portable thoughts is a website built using a single HTML file.
It simply uses URL
#fragmentsand the:targetCSS selector to show and hide “pages”. The result is a self-contained website, digital book, interactive document, or whatever you want to call it.
So, you have a single HTML file that contains everything and is easily navigable without any JavaScript by just showing and hiding sections via CSS. This is smart.
I don’t know what I’m going to use this idea yet, but it will be useful one day.
Bookmarked “How to use Reddit via web feeds | Hund“.
2022.01.30.
2021.12.21.
My GTD contexts
I mostly use the default contexts list. It’s not a coincidence that David Allen still recommends these. Sure, you have to remix them to your liking, but you also have to define clear edges for each of them so you’ll know which one to use at which time.
Here are mine:
- Nearcut: my day job, which is mainly development. These tasks require a different mindset, so it makes sense to group them.
- Freelance: yet another computer context. I have a bunch of freelance projects that I do as a side job.
- Decoding: I write a blog, record podcasts, and such. Next actions that require a deep work mindset, but not related to work, go here.
- Computer: I can do general things (admin, web browsing etc.) at my MacBook Pro or my iPad Pro. Sometimes I have specific next actions for a specific device, but it’s rare.
- Crafting: next actions related to keeping a Zettelkasten system maintained (kinda like my Budget context). These actions usually link to notes (and sometimes project plans, mindmaps) that I want to develop further and add it to my slipbox which I keep in Craft.
- Budget: a helpful one when I’m doing YNAB, or I have to do something on my bank’s web app.
- Calls: calls (and sometimes messages).
- Home: to have something to do when I’m not at any of my computers.
- Errands: well, errands to run.
- Groceries: a shared groceries list with my wife.
- Agendas: I keep people and meeting related agendas here.
- Waiting for: Stuff I’m waiting on from people. I add the date as well to each of these reminders and review them every other day.
I also keep a list of lists that collects all of my next actions list, my Read/Review lists, my video, and audio-related lists as well (Apple TV, Netflix, Prime Video, Podcasts). Why do I have this? Because I want to keep track of which list is for what, so I keep clean edges in my system (and easily create posts like this).
2021.04.20.
Snapdrop is a great tool to have on your tool belt when you want to “airdrop” something to non-Apple platforms. It is P2P, so your files won’t be sent to a server.
2021.02.23.
Nowadays, I use SVG icons everywhere, but preparing them is quite time-consuming. This website could help pick and use nicely designed ones for your next project.
2021.01.31.
Aqueux — Dynamic wallpapers based on a classic
A really nice remake of the classic Aqua wallpaper.
2020.10.30.
Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
This is a very informative article with visual illustrations about how coronavirus spreads in different indoor scenarios, which makes it a bit easier to understand.
2020.09.23.
Enabling the Debug menu in Safari 14 on Big Sur and Catalina
Nekem alapvetően nincs problémám a Safari tabkezelésével, nem úgy mint a linkelt posztban Dan Morennek, de a Debug menü engedélyezése önmagában is érdekes lehet. Van jópár olyan opció ebben a menüben, amit mi nördök valószínűleg tweakelni fogunk.
2020.09.01.
How to Write a Git Commit Message
Ha fejlesztő vagy, akkor az alábbi oldalt tedd el a bookmarkjaid közé és kezdd el alkalmazni az itt tanácsolt dolgokat:
If you haven’t given much thought to what makes a great Git commit message, it may be the case that you haven’t spent much time using git log and related tools. There is a vicious cycle here: because the commit history is unstructured and inconsistent, one doesn’t spend much time using or taking care of it. And because it doesn’t get used or taken care of, it remains unstructured and inconsistent.
Madarat tolláról, fejlesztőt git history-járól.
2020.08.20.
2020.08.06.
Broot
Ritkán van ilyen (talán a tmux és vim esetében éreztem ezt eddig), de a Broot nevű Terminal alapú tree replacement nálam changes everything. Ha egyszerűen kellene összefoglalni, akkor a fájlböngészés vimje. Elképesztően gyorsan tud vele az ember egy nagy mapparendszert átfésülni és manipulálni, úgyhogy meg fogom próbálni beépíteni a mindennapjaimba.
2020.07.07.
A Sandwich Video úgy néz ki tudott adaptálódni a COVID-19 helyzethez úgy, hogy korábban a remote munkát említve nevettek volna. Kíváncsi vagyok hosszútávon hasonló helyzetben lévő cégek hogyan fognak nyerni vagy veszíteni ezzel a járvánnyal.
Shrugs.app
Miután az új csapatban Slacket használunk kommunikációra, így megint felmerült a hivatalos Electronos kliens, amit nem vagyok hajlandó használni – akkor inkább megnyitom Safariban. Szerencsére most jött velem szembe a Shrugs app, ami egy egész pofás natív Slack kliens Macre.
Ezt a screenshotot pedig csak itt hagyom a poszt végén.
Steve Jobs fotói a macOS-ben
Eddig nem tudtam, hogy Steve Jobs fényképei voltak ezek a macOS hátterek:
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Steve Jobs liked to take pictures. He was even taking a picture the last time I saw him. However, many people might not know that some of his photos shipped as Desktop Pictures in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
A Grass Blades hátteret én is használtam sokáig. Ez volt az a vizes, Vista-szerű, füves kép, amivel bemutatták a Leopardot a 2007-es WWDC-n. Kár, hogy nincs már belőle nagyobb felbontású verzió.
2020.04.08.
A Mac-based miracle
Apparently, you can create multiline text replacements on macOS:
It’s possible to use multiline text replacements on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, though you would need to use a Mac to create these text replacements.
On the Mac:
- Open System Preferences. Click on the “Keyboard” pane then click on the “Text” tab.
- Click the “+” button to add a new text replacement.
- Enter the shortcut text in the Replace column.
- Paste some multi-line/multi-paragraph text into the With column.
This text replacement syncs across all of your device using iCloud.
2020.02.09.
Bookmarked “I love email… – Rhoneisms“.
2020.02.07.
Bookmarked “Sönke Ahrens – How to take smart notes on Vimeo“.
2019.12.11.
Bookmarked “How John Gruber, Raconteur, Uses OmniOutliner“.
The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy:
By 2010, personal blogs were thriving, Tumblr was still in its prime, and meme-makers were revolutionizing with form. Snapchat was created in 2011 and Vine, the beloved six-second video app, was born in 2012. People still spent time posting to forums, reading daily entries on sites like FML, and watching Shiba Inus grow up on 24-hour puppy cams. On February 26, 2015—a day that now feels like an iconic marker of the decade — millions of people on the internet argued about whether a dress was blue or gold, and watched live video of two llamas on the lam in suburban Arizona. Sites like Gawker, the Awl, Rookie, the Hairpin, and Deadspin still existed. Until they didn’t. One by one, they were destroyed by an increasingly unsustainable media ecosystem built for the wealthy.
Completely unrelated post from 2004 about lurkers and social media (social media meaning blogs at that time):
Taking it one step further, maybe the ‘magic numbers’ we see in networks of humans relate these meshing concepts to our mental capacity to juggle social data.
- 12 being the average capacity to track nodes in a totally meshed network
- 50 being the average capacity to track nodes in an optimally meshed network
- 150 being the average capacity to track nodes in a sub-optimally meshed network.
- above 150 being the sparsely meshed social network where anonymity and getting lost becomes possible.
If we relate this to blogs and Clay Shirky’s power law, teenage diaries blogs are possibly primarily on the 12/total meshing levels, professional content blogs are probably all in the 50 to 150 ranges, with distinct stability levels (my blog went from 0 to 12 inbound blogs then stabilized, then grew to just over fifty inbound blogs and stabilized again.) Above 150 people are more sparsely connected and start looking for beacons or leaders to orient themselves socially. This is the range where the broadcasting type blogs are, the A-listers.
I cried inside a little when I read teenage diaries. Yes, we used to have that. They were weird looking blogs rumbling about random crap, but it was creative and fun.
Why don’t we have things like that on the web anymore?
Read “Lurking, Twitter, The Commons, and Private Posts“.
Within this setting, since roughly late 2016, I’ve been posting almost all of what I read online or in books, magazines, or newspapers on my own website. These read posts include some context and are often simply composed of the title of the article, the author, the outlet, a summary/synopsis/or first paragraph or two to remind me what the piece was about, and occasionally a comment or two or ten I had on the piece.
2019.12.09.
2019.12.08.
Dave Winer made a video about how he blogs which is very unique. Basically he edits an OPML file that gets synced to scripting.com—it also looks like an outline. I like how quickly he can change anything on his blog.
Bookmarked “About – Bridgy“.