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A weblog by ldstephens. This is my little corner of the web where I share whatever’s on my mind: stories, random thoughts, and the occasional rant.

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• Keyboards 2026-03-12 08:35am
• On - HoudahSpot + Finder is All the File Management You Actually Need 2026-03-11 08:13am
• Cleaning up after winter 2026-03-08 03:51am
• 11ty pauses its rebrand Kickstarter 2026-03-06 06:49am
• Using Claude to automate markdown front matter updates 2026-03-01 02:42am
• Quoting Riccardo Mori 2026-02-26 01:02am
• Carrot Weather has added The Weather Channel as a data source 2026-02-25 01:02am
• I Rent My Entire Life 2026-02-22 02:56am
• A Major Winter Storm is En Route 2026-02-21 08:17am
• Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks 2026-02-20 12:53am
• Switch between open windows in an application 2026-02-17 08:30am
• How to force restart iPhone 2026-02-17 06:38am
• Validating and improving my site's performance 2026-02-14 07:09am
• Why I inlined my CSS in 11ty 2026-02-11 02:53am
• Back to 11ty 2026-02-09 08:16am
• Troubleshooting FSNotes File Visibility Issues 2026-02-09 02:53am
• It's too cold to go outside, so I learned Python instead 2026-02-07 02:55am
• My small protest against Apple 2026-02-04 02:48am
• On Wasting Time With Apple Shortcuts 2026-02-02 02:43am
• On plain text files 2026-01-31 02:40am
• Link post: Does Tim Cook even care about Apple's image anymore? 2026-01-30 02:13am
• Too Many Options (And Why That's Actually Fine) 2026-01-28 01:17am
• Not moaning about AI 2026-01-26 07:16am
• Winter snow storm update 2026-01-25 07:24am
• Bracing for the big chill 2026-01-24 01:40am
• Life before social media 2026-01-22 02:37am
• Blogging: No List, No Schedule 2026-01-21 05:34am
• Today 2026-01-20 2026-01-20 06:26am
• On - Why People Should Not Ask for Donations or Money to Run Their Own Personal Blog 2026-01-15 09:41am
• Link Post: The Case for Blogging in the Ruins 2026-01-06 06:24am
• Get a local 11ty project on GitHub without the command line 2025-12-23 03:25am
• On the NFL Streaming Fragmentation 2025-12-21 07:14am
• A Practical Path to Universal Healthcare 2025-11-28 03:56am
• More design updates 2025-11-01 06:13am
• Hobbies 2025-11-01 05:46am
• Updated design 2025-10-25 10:11am
• Carrot Weather’s limited weather sources 2025-10-08 01:31am
• August 24, 2025, at 3:20:03 PM 2025-08-24 08:21am
• New Look 2025-08-23 03:05am
• Quoting Dave Pell 2025-08-21 07:25am
• Link post: This is your reminder that… 2025-08-21 04:50am
• Analytics 2025-08-16 04:03am
• There’s no fucking cure for stupid 2025-08-08 06:25am
• On The Weird Web 2025-08-03 03:43am
• Fiddling with my blogs today 2025-07-21 12:09pm
• Why Am I Still Listening? 2025-07-19 02:38am
• Anti-Vaxx Stupidity: U.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years 2025-07-11 09:57am
• Link post: I don’t want your email 2025-07-07 09:18am
• Run-Walk-Run 2025-06-30 02:43am
• Link Post: RFK Jr.’s CDC Panel Ditches Some Flu Shots Based on Anti-Vaccine Junk Data 2025-06-28 04:46am
• Search 2025-05-31 07:39am
• Automating 11ty backups with a shell script and Keyboard Maestro 2025-05-17 04:55am
• Link post - An investment in your health… 2025-04-28 08:28am
• Link Post - You should blog 2025-04-26 08:28am
• New desk chair 2025-04-26 04:38am
• The future of the iPad 2025-04-21 10:42am
• 11ty blog post workflow 2025-04-21 01:48am
• My on going 11ty learning curve 2025-04-20 04:34am
• Text editors 2025-04-19 10:28am
• Cleaning up my 11ty project repository 2025-04-18 05:25am
• Quoting Juha-Matti Santala 2025-04-17 08:39am
• Quoting Jack Baty 2025-04-16 04:30am
• This makes my fucking blood boil! 2025-03-22 03:15am
• Quoting Barry Hess 2025-03-16 04:31am
• Quoting Zsolt Benke 2025-03-07 02:03am
• Why write when no one’s reading? 2025-03-02 07:06am
• Platforms own you, not vice versa 2025-02-25 04:00pm
• Kindle Paperwhite’s annoying flashes 2025-02-20 02:11pm
• Quoting Tracy Durnell 2025-02-20 09:23am
• Re - No, The People Didn’t Vote For This 2025-02-09 04:00pm
• How I use AI for writing and coding 2025-02-05 04:00pm
• On Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2025-02-01 04:00pm
• “Unplatform” a guidebook for escaping social media 2025-02-01 04:00pm
• Re - How I find interesting blogs 2024-09-29 05:00pm
• Re - On personal websites and social web 2024-09-22 05:00pm
• Who am I responsible to here? 2024-09-02 05:00pm
• 15 blogging rules 2024-09-02 05:00pm
• Write Like You Talk 2024-09-02 05:00pm
• Blogging - Eliminating Distractions 2024-08-16 05:00pm
• Blogging Challenges - Are They Really Worth It? 2024-08-12 05:00pm
• RSS Versus Bookmarks 2024-08-02 05:00pm
• Advice on Blogging 2024-07-26 05:00pm
• Social Media 2024-07-23 05:00pm
• GoodLinks to iA Writer Custom Actions 2024-06-21 12:18pm
• Update: My iPhone Home Screen One Page Does It All 2024-05-13 06:42am
• My iPhone Home Screen: One Page Does It All 2024-05-10 08:19am
• Perspectives on indie blog monetization 2024-05-10 07:32am
• So you’re monetizing your blog 2024-02-23 01:47pm
• Another and another and another look at Obsidian 2024-02-15 01:19pm
• Can't quit Alfred? Me neither! But I use these Raycast extensions 2024-02-08 10:02am
• How to see the Today View in Apple's Reminders sorted by Lists 2024-01-21 09:19am
• Why I chose NetNewsWire over Reeder for RSS 2024-01-14 08:25am
• From Floppies to iPhones: My 40-Year Love Affair with Technology and It's Not Over Yet! 2024-01-01 07:56am
• File over app 2023-12-10 08:05am
• My default apps - 2024 version 2023-11-29 03:07pm
• App-solutely wishy-washy 2023-11-28 11:14am
• How to Use Fastmail's Auto-Purge Folders 2023-10-25 02:18pm
• Reclaim iCloud storage by deleting iCloud backups for devices that you no longer possess 2023-09-26 01:19pm
• xSearch - A Safari extension for improved searching on iPhone and iPad 2023-09-10 09:53am
• How to change font size for individual apps on iPhone and iPad 2023-09-09 08:35am
• How Devonthink found the files Finder couldn't 2023-08-12 07:21am
• My Everyday Essentials: Alfred, Drafts, and PopClip the Backbone of My Workflow 2023-06-04 01:22pm
• How to create Custom Actions in Goodlinks 2022-12-29 11:56am
• A shoutout to 7 years of Fastmail the perfect Gmail replacement 2022-12-28 06:45am
• How many computers do I need? 2022-12-26 06:12am
• iCreep 2022-09-24 06:35am
• The backbone of my Mac Alfred 5 2022-08-22 07:00am
• Maestral: An open-source Dropbox client for Mac 2021-01-04 09:56am
• GoodLinks for read-it-later 2020-07-08 03:53pm
• Step count in the Health app not matching the step count in the Activity app 2019-05-05 02:37pm
• File Quick View with Alfred 2018-09-04 08:32am