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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…

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    All Your Brand Are Belong To Us

    The last iOS redesign, iOS 7 in 2013, laid the foundation for a neutral, nearly agnostic visual language that third-party developers and companies could build their own brand and corporate design on top of. It was such a clean slate…

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    minifeed

    I recently discovered minifeed, and it has quickly become one of my favorite things on the internet. Once, maybe twice a day, I load the homepage and browse through the latest posts from real blogs written by real humans. I…