I’ve been looking for a way to search through the local copy of my blog using Raycast.

I ended up writing a custom extension to do it. ChatGPT helped grease the way—especially in rendering the results.

Time for another rundown post. Here are a bunch of macOS apps I use. You’ll see some entries from my previous iOS apps post mentioned.

I love finding out about what apps other folks use so I thought I’d give a rundown on what’s on my iPhone.

I’m a sicko for trawling the internet and loading up Instapaper with things to read later.

Which means, you’ll be shocked to hear, my reading queue can get large and unmanageble.

One of my favourite features of Artifact is the ability to use machine learning to replace clickbait titles.

It’s good that you can trigger it from the listing page so that you can choose whether it’s worth reading an article or not.

I spend too much time reading online.

I tend to trawl content from a variety of sources, save the shiny ones in Instapaper, and read them later.

The latest version of Photoshop Beta now includes a feature called generative fill.

I can imagine it’s easy to compromise the authenticity in your photography if you overuse these kinds of tools. With that said, and I know it’s potentially a slippery slide, there are situations where they can be incredibly useful.

I’ve journaled in various forms over the years ¹.

About ten years ago, I migrated my journaling to the Day One app.

I’ve got a hankering for keyboard shortcuts.

I’m all about pressing a key without having to worry about which application I’m in and my computer doing something useful.

I rebuilt A Strange Kind of Madness using Hugo a month or so ago. As with most photoblogs, it has pages with many images on them, and I was inspired by Photo Stream to load these images lazily.

I’ve been working from home full time for four years, and my desk setup has mostly remained the same during that time. But the recent spate of folks sharing their home office setups—this Basecamp post was my favourite—inspired me to spruce up my own.

I still like listening to albums and sometimes want Spotify to play a random album from a playlist of albums I’ve created.

There are a handful of web pages that I use regularly throughout the day. Some are web apps that I keep pinned in Chrome while others come and go as I work.

I recently moved the hosting of my various blogs and websites off my own server to Netlify.

I was originally going to set up an S3 bucket and Cloudfront distribution for each of my sites but Netlify provides me the CDN and hosting features I need all bundled up already. You can upload files directly for serving or hook your site up to run a static site generator when you push to a branch of a Github repository.

The default template for an Atom feed in Middleman Blog uses the last modified time of an article’s source file as the article’s last update time. This means that if I build the site on two different machines I will get different last updated times on articles in the two atom feeds. I’d rather the built site look the same regardless of where I build it.

I use Vim as my text editor and ctags for source code navigation.

I’ve found ctag’s default javascript tagging to be lacking so I’ve added the following to my ctags config file to handle some of the newer ES6 ES2015 syntax such as classes¹.

Like a gentleman I use chruby and Bundler to manage Ruby versions and gems in my projects.

Instead of typing bundle exec to run gem executables within a project, I prefer saving keystrokes and using an executable’s name on its own¹. I also want to avoid installing another tool like Gem home.