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Write all the code you'll ever need, from your phone, for $20 per month

A Yeti water bottle + a Nike T-shirt + Irish Spring 5 in 1: Body, Face, Shampoo, Conditioner, and 24 Hour Deodorant , or an AeroPress Go Portable Coffee Maker + a three-pack of the Field Notes memo books + the classic Swiss Army Knife , or The Power Broker + Graza Drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Terminal on Android

I want to have a functional terminal on my phone (you never know when you're gonna need it). I opted for Termux. Bear in mind that this setup was greatly aided by using a keyboard and mouse . Setup Install ZSH + Oh-My-ZSH Generate SSH key for dotfiles repo: ssh-keygen

Android Keyboard Shortcuts

On my keyboard , there's three different stored Bluetooth connections, so why not use all of them? I already have stored settings for my work laptop and my personal laptop, but I use my phone every day, so why can't I use a non-touchscreen-based interface on the

Terminal Batch Web Search

We've all been there, Google doesn't one shot your search query and so you have to add "hackernews", "reddit" or "stackoverflow" to your query to find the relevant results. Most of the time you know even prior to sending that

Convert Markdown to Anki Cards with VS Code and AnkiConnect

Setup Install AnkiConnect in Anki. Install the Anki extension in VS Code. Update the VS Code settings.json file to include: "anki.md.insertNewCardID": true, "anki.md.updateCards": true, Usage Creating/Updating Cards Open Anki. In VS Code, navigate to any Markdown file from which you&

Ultimate YouTube Enhancement

For better or worse, YouTube hosts some of the best content on the web. One of YouTube’s major downsides is that it’s optimized for stealing your attention. To help mitigate this, I've added a few tools to ensure I stay on task when watching

AGI Prepping

The massive growth of LLMs has been shocking to witness, especially considering my first experience with ChatGPT. A coworker gained beta access, and I used it to generate poems in the voices of various celebrities. It repeated words excessively and had a low word limit on its output. At the

Ultimate Dotfiles

Auto-sync, and Auto-symlink Dotfiles for Multiple OS with System Specific Values There are more than a few systems to manage dotfiles (examples 1 , 2 , and 3 ). I needed a system that would be compatible with Windows (WSL), Mac, and Linux. I wanted to share some of the functionality between all

Scheduling ad hoc commands

The most common scheduler on Linux is, by far, Cron . That said, it is not the only scheduler available on Linux. While Cron has many advantages, it is relatively weak for one-off, ad-hoc commands that need to be run at a specific time in the future. I love Cron , but

Hello World

Running Ghost via docker compose.