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Sal
I'm Sal, and this is my spot. I'm a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, and a job. Isn't that exciting?? I've had several blogs over the years and have enjoyed all of them. With each iteration, I lower my ambitions, take it less seriously, and try to have more fun. This one is another step in all of those directions, and I'm hoping it sticks around the longest. Disclaimer: I tend to write in short timeboxes and following the 70% rule. If a post seems shallow or half-baked ... yep!
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The Altar II is a mechanical Magic Keyboard. From the HN announcement: Today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made. Altar II has fully mechanical switches, plus a magnetically detachable dial, haptic...
Here’s a cool fish trick: abbr --add jjc --set-cursor -- 'jj commit -m "%"' This adds an abbreviation, which is a like an auto-expanding bash alias, that puts your cursor at the % character. So when I type jjc in my terminal and hit space, that expands to: jj commit -m "<cursor>" Handy!
I’m working from the beautiful Oregon coast for a few days this week. I set up a makeshift desk in front of three large-ish windows with a view of Neahkahnie Mountain. My image in video calls looks so much better here compared to my home office, which is in our underground basement and has only one tiny little...
My wife has insisted for some time that my hearing sucks. Meanwhile, I think she’s a bit of a low talker. I had my ears checked this week by an audiologist, and my hearing is “borderline” normal except for a particular band of frequencies in which I have achieved “mild” hearing loss. And it just so happens that the...
As threatened, I moved the blog to pico.sh pgs because pico.sh is so dang cool and much more in the spirit of indiewebbing than Cloudflare. That’s all I’ll say about it, and I say it only because I once again ask: if I broke anything, please email me! With that, I promise I’ll stop blogging about this blog for the...
Baty just posted this and I just have to follow suit. It’s hilarious and painful how relevant it is to my blog lately: Comic credit to Rakhim.
Wow, pico.sh looks very enticing. I found it last night after reading Brennan’s post, Free Speech and the IndieWeb, which discusses the reasons he doesn’t use Cloudflare. See also his longer post on this topic. I have been feeling a little dirty about using Cloudflare for hosting this little indie blog. Plus,...
I was succumbing to my Hacker News habit recently and saw this post from Rands: The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing. PT Mono was in the list of fixed-width fonts that made his cut. For some reason it stuck in my brain. Maybe because I hadn’t heard of it. Later, I found myself perusing macOS’s Font...
As I mentioned, I accidentally published all my draft posts. You know, the ones I cheekily listed at the bottom of my ripgrep post. All public and in my RSS feed. Dangit. What happened I can’t know for sure, but here’s what I suspect happened. Sloppiness on my part When Hugo builds my production site, it puts the...
Adding to the fun of this Hugo migration, I accidentally published all my draft posts this morning. If you happened to see the actual words of those posts (they might be cached in your feed reader), I realize you now can’t unsee them. My sincerest condolences. I’ll do a followup post once I figure out what happened...
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