Sal's

Blog

Here’s a list of my blog posts. Generally, I don’t edit these after I publish them. In contrast, my notes are living pages that evolve over time.

  1. The Claude aesthetic
    Pondering my site's design.
  2. A mechanical Magic Keyboard
    Thoughts on the Altar II from EMO.
  3. Fish shell trick: abbr --set-cursor
    Fish can set your cursor right where you want it when expanding abbreviations.
  4. Working from beach and related thoughts
  5. Testing hearing aids this week
    Increasing signals that I'm no longer 19 years old.
  6. Moved the blog to pico.sh, and I'm done blogging about this blog for August
    Last post about shoving this blog around for the month. Pinky swear.
  7. Blog posts about elaborate blogging setups
  8. pico.sh!
    Considering moving the blog ... again 🤠
  9. PT Mono
    I found another font I like.
  10. I published my drafts: lessons learned and steps taken
    Exiting my published-drafts fire drill.
  11. Another fat woops: I published my drafts
    Learning the hard way in Hugo.
  12. Blog-post resiliency
    Mike shares some good tips on making our blog posts more resilient to the winds of time.
  13. Finding my draft posts with ripgrep
    Ripgrep is the best.
  14. Smoke in Portland
    We've been lucky this summer, but the smoke finally got us.
  15. An RSS oopsie, props to Pablo at powRSS
    I made an oopsie and two wonderful people took the time to alert me.
  16. Moved the blog from 11ty to Hugo
    For reasons. Sort of.
  17. Belated welcome to Blaugust
    Oh sure, I'll join in the fun.
  18. Cursive
    It didn't stick.
  19. Re: productivity mirage
    On preparing to work vs. just getting after it.
  20. Re: Bubbles, upvotes, web interlinking
    I still don't like those upvotes.
  21. Thoughts in progress: jj and my homelab
  22. Adding an <aside> element with 11ty
    Using 11ty's paired shortcodes to get <aside> into this blog.
  23. Creating tasks from iOS Safari vs. Chrome
    Safari works much better for creating tasks in Things and Todoist.
  24. /uses updates: Neovim, VSCode, Things, Todoist (plus the page actually works now)
    An update to my /uses page, which I just realized has been broken.
  25. Em dashes are amazing
  26. Trying jj with this blog's git repo
    After bouncing off of it a few times.
  27. Neal Stephenson on writing by hand
    One of my fave authors on one of my fave topics!
  28. papernews
  29. Two multi-cursor commands I should use more often
  30. Hasty IndieWeb thoughts; bad roads as filters
    I don't dig all the social stuff.
  31. So long, ball!
    A funny moment.
  32. And switched again, now deploying with wrangler
    To GitHub, or not to GitHub?
  33. Moved the blog from GitLab to GitHub
    GitLab was having the vapors.
  34. A perfect editor
    Sharing Bruce's great post.
  35. Quick note on EMR pens for the Supernote
    Love that ceramic nib!
  36. It's hard to find objective advice about text editors
    The more experienced the person, the greater the likelihood of bias.
  37. Sorry about that Emacs post
    I wrote it in a hot mood.
  38. 24 hours with Emacs (a hasty rant)
  39. Making VSCode play better with Markdown over SSH
  40. Mixed feels on modal editing
  41. Hello from my Supernote Manta
  42. VSCode Remote-SSH setup hangs when using fish shell
    I figured out why it wasn't working.
  43. I think my little VPS is OOMing
  44. Two-sentence post: Mosh is cool
  45. Apparently I've used Todoist before
  46. Fish shell
    How do I love thee?
  47. Making a custom Neovim filetype picker with mini.pick
  48. Two-sentence post: Todoist on the brain
    Ye olde Things vs. Todoist debate.
  49. Added a light/dark theme toggle
    Making it easier to switch themes on this site.
  50. High contrast vs. muted color themes
    Is one "better" than the other?
  51. Neovim rabbit hole
    I'm in it.
  52. Botsitting
  53. Is Active Noise Cancelling good or bad for your hearing?
    The jury appears to be out.
  54. TIL: CSS View Transitions API
  55. I've been using my pointer finger to press the spacebar this whole time 🤦‍♂️
    What the ...
  56. Reworking my remote notes and blogging rig
    Ditched the jump host and my home server in favor a VM and Obsidian headless sync.
  57. Fresh Neovim config with nvim-light
  58. Re: better blog titles
  59. Having fun listening to music
  60. Reorganized the desk, plus a hifi splurge
  61. Two-sentence post
  62. Two-sentence post
    Trying a new approach to short-form blogging.
  63. Vim mode is taking hold
    The latest chapter in Vim mode vs. macOS defaults.
  64. Finally trying EditorConfig
    And I dig it.
  65. Holy refresh rate
  66. Tennis leg
  67. Freedom units
    'Merica could've gone metric.
  68. Oregon coast
  69. Fixing my footnote superscript styling
  70. My remote blogging workflow
  71. Alfred's core values
  72. Fear of sharing AI opinions in the workplace
  73. Breaking news: Oregon man buys Peloton bike
    Deploying a bold and unique health-embiggening strategy.
  74. Re: lowercase posts
  75. Night Witches
    Extremely cool real-life witches.
  76. Walking the kids to school
    On appreciating the small, slow moments.
  77. Re: make email fun again
    Cheers to Amanda for recapturing the fun of email.
  78. Tuscany
    A ten-day escape with my wife.
  79. Flying blind
    Bidding adieu to web analytics.
  80. Pseudonym as an escape
    On blogging anonymously.
  81. Blog move successful!
  82. Moving my blog to 11ty and Cloudflare Pages
    Time for a new chapter in my blogging. Sincere thanks to Bear Blog for the great times!
  83. Obsidian Sync is great
    Couldn't be happier to be paying for this service.
  84. Today's thoughts
    This and that.
  85. macOS shortcuts for navigating by paragraph
    Handy!
  86. Quiet things
  87. Street names
  88. The monthly bill I enjoy getting
  89. Slightly happy
  90. Can’t quit the Apple Keyboard
  91. Dear Spotify
  92. Re: Back to Alfred
  93. Vim mode, again (again)
  94. A touch of schadenfreude
  95. Easier linking to local files in Obsidian
  96. AI's writing and semantic ablation
  97. More about those blog drafts
  98. A random list of silly things I hate
  99. Where to do these drafts
  100. Some stuff I don’t have time to write about
  101. Remote editing in Zed
  102. Recipe apps
  103. About those upvotes
  104. Management is hard
  105. Internet hijacking our ambition?
  106. Change your car's air filters yourself
  107. Cheers to Miniflux
  108. Dry January (consumerism edition)
  109. Linux in the air
  110. De-hacking productivity
  111. Solving Bear Blog's Trending discovery feed
  112. CLI cool-off
  113. On self-managing Postgres
  114. Migrating from Obsidian to Day One
  115. Don't do Apple gift cards, I guess?
  116. Predator: Badlands
  117. Flight
  118. TSJ FTW
  119. 1-year blog anniversary
  120. Defaults in 2025
  121. Non-weekly jumble
  122. Back to the Mac
  123. Adventures in homelabbing
    Getting my homelab online.
  124. GitHub releases RSS (Atom) feeds
  125. Cool thing about terminal multiplexers
  126. Oh hi Zellij
  127. Cool Neovim autopairs!
  128. Vim. vs. Emacs
  129. vim-tmux-navigator is magic
  130. This is fine
  131. Weekly jumble
  132. Current status
  133. My fascination with the command line
  134. Trying Helix
  135. Trying NetNewsWire
  136. Adventures in buying used iPads
  137. Sleep
  138. Not blogging much lately
  139. Re: Bear Blog license
  140. Re: loving the job
  141. Journaling on an Apple
  142. Re: justify
  143. Journal is coming to the Mac
  144. :q Vim mode
  145. Re: avoiding the news
  146. Air fryer arrives today
  147. Vim mode, again
  148. Em dashes and en dashes and spaces?
  149. Em dashes
  150. Trying Miniflux
  151. fzf is cool
  152. macOS dotfiles locations
  153. Serious Markdown
  154. Seventy percent
  155. Fun with plain-text notes (searching Obsidian tasks)
  156. Obsidian Bases upgrades my music library
  157. The internet is fun
  158. Done with vacations, back to work
  159. Just bought Thousand Year Old Vampire
  160. Obsidian vs. Logseq task queries
  161. Critical lesson from our trip to Mexico
  162. Re: sticking with it
  163. Postroll and thoughts on notes and tasks
  164. We Are Legion, Fifth Season, Kindle Unlimited
  165. Re: entitled to write this
  166. Activity tracking
  167. Demoting the Apple Watch
  168. Waxed the bike chain
  169. Blaugust; waxing my bike chain
  170. 14kb vs 15kb
  171. Trying Logseq at work
  172. Re: daily notes considered harmful
  173. Re: second brain
  174. Project Hail Mary
  175. Cacio e Pepe
  176. No learnings
  177. BnB: The week did not go according to plan
  178. From Bear.app back to Obsidian
  179. BnB: Happy Father’s Day; appreciating Portland’s greenways
  180. Can we reclaim 👌?
  181. I bought another bike
  182. Re: blogs I like to read
  183. Bike ‘n blog; trusting my feelings
  184. Re: Moka pot
  185. Unburying myself from self-imposed process
  186. Bear vs. Obsidian
  187. The Workload Fairy Tale, why fonts on macOS look better
  188. Thank you, Python
  189. Oliver Burkeman letter on "aliveness"
  190. Talking to myself
  191. A few thoughts on being in a sales org
  192. Links on parenthood, writing for personal growth
  193. My blog’s style is a little wonky
  194. Thank you, 1Password
  195. 14,000 steps before lunch
  196. Promotion
  197. Walkolution arrived!
  198. Apple Trackpad dragging
  199. Goodbye, Xfinity
  200. Fixed Sonos on my new wireless network
  201. Enduring hardships
  202. Blogging on my iPad Mini
  203. Handiwork
  204. Thoughts while wrapping up a few days of alone time
  205. Reeder Classic vs. Inoreader
  206. Bye Karabiner, hello again Keyboard Maestro
  207. Tangible things, the value of work
  208. Opening Spotify links directly in the desktop app
  209. I should dictate more often
  210. Re: Emacs
  211. Neuvo music catalog
  212. New home network rig
  213. Apple Studio Display
  214. Happiness in parenthood
  215. Death with dignity
  216. Done with The Economist
  217. Cloudbusting
  218. Re: Bear Blog maximalism
  219. Alfred workflow UI problems with iCloud sync
  220. Nick Cave on 2025 and hope
  221. Obsidian to Bear, not looking back
  222. Walking pad going up in smoke
  223. My blog volume this week
  224. Privilege and talipes
  225. Style tweaks: some progress
  226. New domain name!
  227. Re: productivity crap
  228. Default apps in January 2025
  229. Disappointment with the Apple Intelligence proofreader
  230. A late night with a Bear
  231. Bear Blog Questions Challenge
  232. One sentence per line
  233. Re: echo chamber and doing it right
  234. iOS builtin sleep sounds
  235. Defaults
  236. Journaling with photos
  237. Journaling apps
  238. Klaus
  239. GenAI and people management
  240. Alfred
  241. Physical newspaper
  242. Hiding Bear Blog's upvote form
  243. Sharp knives
  244. Uses (2004 edition)
  245. Boring phone
  246. My kind of social network
  247. I wish
  248. The Red Hand Files
  249. Walking pad
  250. Worry
  251. Gratitude
  252. Hello!
  253. How I swapped my domain name
  254. Too young to be too old to start skateboarding
  255. Tweaking some styles