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It’s 2022, so many of us now have 2 years experience of online meetings. My experience is that the better that I can see and hear someone in an online call, the more natural the conversation feels. Put another way, I think one does a courtesy to the other person by improving the quality of how you appear in a video…
Apple's Hide My Email feature is one of the most under-rated privacy launches of the past year, and here's why.
Here are 4 tricks that I’ve found to make my life easier and help me communicate better with my co-workers.
I am running for Corvallis City Council again this fall! Campaign site is here .
I recently received a tantalizing email from a reader I’ve never met: Sam Henri-Gold . Sam showed me how you can key in a couple write commands in the macOS…
Working on my old ThinkPad x220 feels easy because I’ve used the same software for over a decade.
Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human sleep
I like plain text. I also like doodling while I write. Some things are just easier to explain with a picture. But if I need to draw a picture today, I need to stop writing plain text, pick an app, dismiss a couple of dialogs or tours of new features in front of my face, think about all the ways it's acting for its…
Today I learned that, since macOS High Sierra onwards, you can move a window by starting to drag anywhere on it.
I develop 🌕 Lunar, a macOS app for getting intelligent adaptive brightness on external monitors and controlling every aspect of your monitor using DDC and other obscure protocols. I get tons of email about Lunar, especially after it became my full time “job” in 2021. A lot of those emails complain about Lunar bugs…
We've been waiting since April 24, 2012 for a Google Drive Linux client.
Personal site of Ellie Huxtable
Back in 2019, I started collecting all kinds of metrics about my life. Every single day for the last 2.5 years I tracked over 100 different data types - ranging from fitness & nutrition to social life, computer usage and weather.
Bodging a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard
One of the things that I like to do in my projects, is to make the git history as linear as possible.
When I was in junior high, my friends and I discovered that a Command Prompt command called net send was enabled on our school network. AIM and similar services were blocked, but if we wanted to send messages to each other we could open up the Command Prompt and type something like: net send lab2126-24 test and get an…
What’s the shortest URL for which content is served on the internet? There are quite a few single-letter second-level domains that are used in very short URLs, such as Google’s http://g.co or Facebook’s https://m.me. But we can go shorter than this: there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at…
We like lists because they are an objectively good way to organize information. They allow readers to quickly and easily get what they want.
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ We're professionals. We can handle the complexity and the density
Here’s a scenario. First, you download an app for a service that has some sort of in-person component, like picking up an order or meeting a driver at the curb. When using that app for the goal, be it that order or that meeting, it’s very helpful to have notifications, since they give you the current status and it can…
Despite Mozilla’s best efforts, I’m still using their browser nearly 20 years on. Here are my tips.
Long story short: a couple of my articles got really popular on a bunch of sites, and someone, somewhere, went “well, let’s see how much traffic that smart-ass can handle”, and suddenly I was on th...
Here's how to download all of Wikipedia (6M+ articles) onto a USB flash drive for offline access. After hours of trying and failing, here's what worked for me
A summary of the best ideas from Atomic Habits by James Clear
I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.
