<p>A few years ago, my therapist told me I'm going to have just the right personality and temperament to enjoy my 40s when I get there. I wasn't entirely sure how to take his comment then, but now that I'm well into my thirty-eighth trip around the Sun, I think it's beginning to sink in.</p>
read the full post →<p>I occassioanlly need to scan a folder and all of its subdirectories to see if any of them DO NOT contain files of a certain type.</p> <p>I'm fully aware you can do this with some combination of shell commands, but I always spent 20 minutes googling for how to do it again every time I needed to. It was faster just to write this small utility myself.</p> <p>I call it <code>dnc</code>, which stands for "does not contain". You can <a href="https://github.com/tylerhall/dnc">download the source or a pre-built binary on GitHub</a>. The builds aren't notarized. So be sure to ask Apple if it's OK to run this on your Mac.</p> <p>Read the full post for an example of why I need this script.</p>
read the full post →<p>Inline with my affinity for <a href="https://new.tyler.io/category/backups/">backing up and owning my data</a>, one component of that strategy is <a href="https://new.tyler.io/grannysmith/">avoiding proprietary file formats and databases</a> whenever possible and reasonable. That's why I prefer plain text (and more recently <a href="http://textbundle.org/"><code>.textbundle</code></a>) for all of my notes, and why I'm so meticulous about <a href="https://new.tyler.io/category/photography/">how I organize my family's photo archives</a>.</p> <p>It gives me the agility to move from app to app or even (heaven forbid, it may eventually happen) to a new platform as my needs change. If you own your own data, there's no lock-in.</p> <p>So along those lines, here's a very tiny optimization (is that the right word for this?) that I've been doing for years that helps keep my reference material organized and more easily searchable and filterable.</p> <p>(Oh, and also a quick story about how I effed up someone else's data.)</p>
read the full post →<p>I don't quite understand how it's been five years already. Nevertheless, happy birthday to the most fearless and persistent young lady I've ever known.</p> <p><img src="https://cdn.tyler.io/wp-content/uploads/blog/H5.jpg" alt="Five" /></p>
read the full post →<p>If you need something to listen to this weekend or during your next commute, <a href="https://systematicpod.com/ep/241">here's a link to me prattling on for forty-six minutes</a> about how and why I build the software I do.</p> <p><a href="https://brettterpstra.com/">Brett Terpstra</a> was kind enough to invite me on as the guest of his <a href="https://systematicpod.com/">Systematic podcast</a> this week. And when he says I'm "on about the same level of geek frequency as" he is, well, that's a heck of a compliment in my book.</p>
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