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Author: tyler

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    “Things I think I’m good at”

    As a parent, I often lose faith that I'm doing a good job raising my kids, but then I'll get a sign that maybe things are going OK after all. Last night, my daughter came into my office to show…

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    “This time it’s not fatigue, but disconnection”

    "My idea of being a luddite is more like someone who keeps advocating that technology should be in our service, and not vice-versa. Technology seems to be on a path of eroding people’s agency, whereas I want people to have more agency and to…

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    Alan.app

    Maybe it's because my eyes are getting old or maybe it's because the contrast between windows on macOS keeps getting worse. Either way, I built a tiny Mac app last night that draws a border around the active window. I…

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    Some Books

    An internet friend asked the other day: It appears I have finally rebooted my reading hobby, after years of trying. Feels good. What’s something great you’ve read? Here’s some of my favorites (in no particular order).

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    Migrating Day One Journal Entries to Obsidian

    I recently moved away from Day One and am now using Obsidian to keep my daily journal. To make that possible, I needed to migrate over a decade’s worth of journal entries into an Obsidian-friendly format. When I first started using Day One, I…