Author: Curtis McHale
Code to the Moon on Ergonomic Keyboards
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Okay his top pick at the end is one I want to try out now. Unfortunately like most ergo boards of this nature it’s over $500 Canadian so I’ll need to budget for it.
Handle PDFs Natively in Obsidian
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While I currently don’t store PDF’s, or really anything but text files, in Obsidian I know that many other users like to have everything in Obsidian. I’m still also not entirely sold on Zotero for my storage needs after leaving DEVONthink behind so let’s look into how Obsidian handles PDF files. Native PDF Handling To
Industrial Jam and Industrial Software
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From Steph Ango Industrial fruit jam is filled with cheap ingredients and shelf stabilizers. Industrial software is filled with privacy-invasive trackers and proprietary formats.Google, Apple, and Microsoft make industrial software. Like industrial jam, industrial software has its benefits — it’s cheap, fairly reliable, widely available, and often gets the job done. This is a good
Default Apps for 2023
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I’ve had fairly large change in 2023 in that I no longer use macOS as my primary operating system. Now I’m on Fedora with my Framework 13″ laptop. Some things have thus stayed the same, but some had to change because they don’t exist on Fedora.
PKM Weekly Nov 5 2023 – Issue 095
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Jason Bourne – What if MK Ultra Worked
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This is usually a members only post. To get all my notes on reading and research, along with my RAW book notes, become a member I watched the first 3 instalments in the Jason Bourne movies this week and generally enjoyed Matt Damon running around beating people up while he discovered his “past” as David
Excellent Ergonomic Keyboard Primer
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This is an excellent ergonomic keyboard primer from Dygma. I currently have a Moonlander, which I just realized I have never reviewed. I have no complaints about it, and don’t really need to switch but I have always looked at the offerings from Dygma and wondered what they’d feel like. Originally it was the Raise,
We Own Nothing – The Broken Promise of the Information Age
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From Animatronic Pumpkin: Remember in the 90s when we thought we were headed for an amazing Information Age? Instead we find the greatest engine of censorship ever invented. Streaming services disappear movies. Amazon can rewrite the books on your kindle. Best Buy stops selling movies on disc. Nobody owns anything. Links evaporate all the time.
Centering A Single Buffer in NeoVim
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When you’re working on a single buffer on a widescreen monitor you end up looking far to the left which over the course of the day can result in some neck pain. Previously my solution was to split NeoVim and work on the right buffer via the :vsplit command. But recently I found Centerpad.nvim which
Jose on the Beauty of Finished Software
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Finished software is excellent, but I don’t think that most people really want it. What they want is new features to learn, or some new software to try because it’s “better”. They want both of these things because learning new features or trying out new software makes them feel like they’re doing the work, but
