Using Raycast to Move My Mac
An AOC Ultrawide (49″) dominates my desk. Stretching 47″ from wingtip to wingtip, it serves as: I have two MacBooks: During the work day, I typically have my work MacBook to the left of...
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Compiling the Birthday Problem into Rust
The Birthday Problem demonstrates that, in a group of 23 people, the odds of two people sharing a birthday exceed 50%. You can read the linked article for an explanation, but the probability is...
Editing Markdown in Zed
I’ve been cheating on Neovim lately. I’m playing around with Zed (in vim mode, naturally). Zed’s default settings allow Markdown editing just fine, of course. Markdown is just text, after all. I don’t want...
Flipping a Rusty Coin
Recently, my boss asked me for a server capacity planning model. This was a new ask for me. I can launch Excel with the best of ‘em: fire up Alfred and type “ex<enter>”. I...
Autostart Zellij in Nushell
Cool kids multiplex with Zellij. Data engineers shred data with Nushell. Let’s make them work better together. Let’s autostart Zellij when our terminal and shell start. The Zellij documentation provides instructions for making Zellij...
asdf and Nushell: Functions to Install and Switch Versions
I use asdf to manage tool versions, fzf to save typing, and shell functions to bolster my memory. My recent switch to Nushell reminded me that I haven’t memorized the asdf command to install...
Date Parsing and Arithmetic on macOS
I recently wrote a shell script that required both date parsing and date arithmetic. The pertinent bits for this post are that the script: Seemed simple enough. A little googling and some experimentation gave...
Nushell + fzf — functions for git switch and git branch -d
I’ve recently re-discovered nushell and I’ve fallen hard. I’m committed. I’m stumbling my way through things, of course, but I’ve set my course and am not turning back. Perhaps one day I’ll blog my...
Fridge Door Part 3: Building a React Application
This article is part 3 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Nodejs Create the Application In...
Fridge Door Part 2: Building a Service in Rocket and Rust
This article is part 2 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Create the Service Rocket has...