Archive
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Walking the kids to school
On appreciating the small, slow moments.
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Night Witches
Extremely cool real-life witches.
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Re: make email fun again
Cheers to Amanda for recapturing the fun of email.
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Tuscany
A ten-day escape with my wife.
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Flying blind
Bidding adieu to web analytics.
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Pseudonym as an escape
On blogging anonymously.
- Blog move successful!
- New blog design
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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!
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Obsidian Sync is great
Couldn't be happier to be paying for this service.
- You can clean those "scratches" off ceramic dinnerware
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Today's thoughts
This and that.
- Too young to be too old to start skateboarding
- Quiet things
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macOS shortcuts for navigating by paragraph
Handy!
- Street names
- The monthly bill I enjoy getting
- Slightly happy
- Re: Back to Alfred
- Dear Spotify
- Can’t quit the Apple Keyboard
- Vim mode, again (again)
- Easier linking to local files in Obsidian
- A touch of schadenfreude
- AI's writing and semantic ablation
- More about those blog drafts
- A random list of silly things I hate
- Where to do these drafts
- Some stuff I don’t have time to write about
- Remote editing in Zed
- Recipe apps
- About those upvotes
- Management is hard
- Internet hijacking our ambition?
- Change your car's air filters yourself
- Cheers to Miniflux
- Linux in the air
- Dry January (consumerism edition)
- De-hacking productivity
- Solving Bear Blog's Trending discovery feed
- CLI cool-off
- On self-managing Postgres
- Migrating from Obsidian to Day One
- Predator: Badlands
- Don't do Apple gift cards, I guess?
- Flight
- TSJ FTW
- 1-year blog anniversary
- Defaults in 2025
- Non-weekly jumble
- Back to the Mac
- GitHub releases RSS (Atom) feeds
- Oh hi Zellij
- Cool thing about terminal multiplexers
- Cool Neovim autopairs!
- Vim. vs. Emacs
- vim-tmux-navigator is magic
- This is fine
- Get rid of that AppleCare badge in macOS System Settings
- Weekly jumble
- Current status
- My fascination with the command line
- Trying Helix
- Weight loss
- Trying NetNewsWire
- Sleep
- Adventures in buying used iPads
- Not blogging much lately
- ScreenZen continues to be a winner
- Re: loving the job
- Re: Bear Blog license
- Journaling on an Apple
- Re: justify
- Journal is coming to the Mac
- Heart to Heart
- :q Vim mode
- Re: avoiding the news
- Air fryer arrives today
- Vim mode, again
- Sunset at the Oregon coast
- Em dashes and en dashes and spaces?
- Trying Miniflux
- Em dashes
- macOS dotfiles locations
- fzf is cool
- Seventy percent
- Serious Markdown
- Fun with plain-text notes (searching Obsidian tasks)
- Steel Bridge
- Obsidian Bases upgrades my music library
- The internet is fun
- Done with vacations, back to work
- Obsidian vs. Logseq task queries
- Just bought Thousand Year Old Vampire
- Critical lesson from our trip to Mexico
- Skimboarding in the clouds
- Re: sticking with it
- Postroll and thoughts on notes and tasks
- macOS timer for focus blocks
- We Are Legion, Fifth Season, Kindle Unlimited
- Re: entitled to write this
- Activity tracking
- Demoting the Apple Watch
- Waxed the bike chain
- "On this day" in Obsidian
- Blaugust; waxing my bike chain
- Trying Logseq at work
- 14kb vs 15kb
- Re: daily notes considered harmful
- Re: second brain
- Project Hail Mary
- Cacio e Pepe
- No learnings
- BnB: The week did not go according to plan
- From Bear.app back to Obsidian
- BnB: Happy Father’s Day; appreciating Portland’s greenways
- Can we reclaim 👌?
- I bought another bike
- Fleet Week
- Re: blogs I like to read
- Re: Moka pot
- Bike ‘n blog; trusting my feelings
- Unburying myself from self-imposed process
- I’m digging ScreenZen
- Bear vs. Obsidian
- The Workload Fairy Tale, why fonts on macOS look better
- Thank you, Python
- Oliver Burkeman letter on "aliveness"
- Talking to myself
- A few thoughts on being in a sales org
- Links on parenthood, writing for personal growth
- My blog’s style is a little wonky
- Thank you, 1Password
- Why I can't quit Rectangle Pro
- 14,000 steps before lunch
- Promotion
- Walkolution arrived!
- Apple Trackpad dragging
- Goodbye, Xfinity
- Fixed Sonos on my new wireless network
- Enduring hardships
- Thoughts while wrapping up a few days of alone time
- Handiwork
- Blogging on my iPad Mini
- Reeder Classic vs. Inoreader
- Bye Karabiner, hello again Keyboard Maestro
- Tangible things, the value of work
- Opening Spotify links directly in the desktop app
- I should dictate more often
- Re: Emacs
- Neuvo music catalog
- New home network rig
- Apple Studio Display
- Happiness in parenthood
- Death with dignity
- Chinese AI
- Done with The Economist
- Cloudbusting
- Streak-based habit trackers
- Re: Bear Blog maximalism
- Obsidian to Bear, not looking back
- Nick Cave on 2025 and hope
- Alfred workflow UI problems with iCloud sync
- Walking pad going up in smoke
- Filtering Bear.app's recent files in Alfred
- Style tweaks: some progress
- Privilege and talipes
- My blog volume this week
- Alfred feature: keyword aliases
- Re: productivity crap
- New domain name!
- How I swapped my domain name
- Tweaking some styles
- Disappointment with the Apple Intelligence proofreader
- Default apps in January 2025
- A late night with a Bear
- Bear Blog Questions Challenge
- Re: echo chamber and doing it right
- One sentence per line
- iOS builtin sleep sounds
- Journaling with photos
- Defaults
- Journaling apps
- Klaus
- GenAI and people management
- Alfred
- Physical newspaper
- Hiding Bear Blog's upvote form
- Sharp knives
- Uses
- Boring phone
- My kind of social network
- I wish
- The Red Hand Files
- Walking pad
- Worry
- Hello!
- Gratitude