Using Raycast to Move My Mac
An AOC Ultrawide (49 ) dominates my desk. Stretching 47 from wingtip to wingtip, it serves as: I have two MacBooks: During the work day, I typically have my work MacBook to the left of
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Compiling the Birthday Problem into Rust
The Birthday Problem demonstrates that, in a group of 23 people, the odds of two people sharing a birthday exceed 50%. You can read the linked article for an explanation, but the probability is
Editing Markdown in Zed
I ve been cheating on Neovim lately. I m playing around with Zed (in vim mode, naturally). Zed s default settings allow Markdown editing just fine, of course. Markdown is just text, after all. I don t want
Flipping a Rusty Coin
Recently, my boss asked me for a server capacity planning model. This was a new ask for me. I can launch Excel with the best of ‘em: fire up Alfred and type “ex enter ”. I
Autostart Zellij in Nushell
Cool kids multiplex with Zellij. Data engineers shred data with Nushell. Let s make them work better together. Let s autostart Zellij when our terminal and shell start. The Zellij documentation provides instructions for making Zellij
asdf and Nushell: Functions to Install and Switch Versions
I use asdf to manage tool versions, fzf to save typing, and shell functions to bolster my memory. My recent switch to Nushell reminded me that I haven t memorized the asdf command to install
Date Parsing and Arithmetic on macOS
I recently wrote a shell script that required both date parsing and date arithmetic. The pertinent bits for this post are that the script: Seemed simple enough. A little googling and some experimentation gave
Nushell + fzf — functions for git switch and git branch -d
I ve recently re-discovered nushell and I ve fallen hard. I m committed. I m stumbling my way through things, of course, but I ve set my course and am not turning back. Perhaps one day I ll blog my
Fridge Door Part 3: Building a React Application
This article is part 3 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Nodejs Create the Application In
Fridge Door Part 2: Building a Service in Rocket and Rust
This article is part 2 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Create the Service Rocket has