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...
Category: Software
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...
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...
Set Upstream Branch for Git
Update 8/17/2022: I just learned about the new git setting: push.autoSetupRemote — I learned it from here, and so can you! You’ve seen it many times: So what do you do? You go to...
Supercharging asdf with FZF
Update (August 12, 2022): Just noticed this commit that changes the output format for the current version in asdf list — updated accordingly. Update (August 11, 2022): I’ve added more intelligent version sorting and...
Displaying Your Kitty Theme Colors
Update (12/15/21): So I hadn’t updated kitty in awhile, and now themes are built in. Everything is mostly the same, except that the file containing your colors has a different name. And you don’t...
Insert UUIDs in Vim / Neovim
In my forays with Deequ, I found myself frequently inserting UUIDs into test JSON files. Although Online UUID Generator worked for this purpose, copy-pasta between browser and editor started to feel clunky. Time to...