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Sure! Here's what I do to add an expense from my phone: 1. Open the Drafts App on my iPhone. 2. Type "lfood", which triggers TextExpander with my ledger food expense snippet [1]. I…

I've been using Ledger for years now and with thousands of entries a year. I track investments, income, expenses, and budgeting. For mobile entry, I keep my ledger file on Dropbox …

News Minimalist: > It uses AI (ChatGPT-4) to read the top 1000 news every day and rank them by significance on a scale from 0 to 10 based on event magnitude, scale, potential, and …

Sea anchors can be used to steer a sailboat in some situations in the event that the rudder is lost, as one guy demonstrated when he lost his rudder 1609km (1000mi) from Hawaii: ht…

In the mid-ninties, around the time I had just become a teenager, I remember walking down the back corridor of a mall where my parents were leasing a space for their business and h…

Given the irregular distance between holes and the different angles of the holes, I'd guess something organic. There's still a lot we don't know about even well known fish like sha…

I’m surprised to see that the iTerm2 dedicated hotkey window hasn’t been mentioned. It’s essentially a system-wide terminal window that you can open with a hotkey, similar to the o…

I built a WordPress theme called Independent Publisher that’s intended to focus on the writing and get out of the way of the reader. I was reminded of it while reading this blog, s…

Brain Rules for Baby by John Medina, because it made me a better father; Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, because it taught me of the importance of something that I’d occasionally d…

Distributed.blog is a new podcast series by Matt Mullenweg (co-creator of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, a fully-distributed company of nearly a thousand folks). The podcast expl…

The macOS YubiSwitch app solves that problem nicely. https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...

One of the most amazing books that I've read about simple ways to correct muscular imbalances, including those that result from too much sitting, is Pete Egoscue's Pain Free at You…

> macOS is fairly weak, being more inclined to manually accomplishing it. I found the SwitchResX app [1] to be really useful for switching to portrait mode on macOS. I have a 2017 …

I have done a lot of both worlds and find an incredibly noticeable difference in my private life. Manual labor that has my body feeling ‘used’ at the end of the day makes me feel t…

Kinsta | Senior Support Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE | https://kinsta.com/ Kinsta is a modern cloud hosting startup focused on WordPress hosting. Our awesome, young, and motivated…

Thank you. I wish more textbooks read like this!

In Chrome, Preferences → Advanced → Content Settings → Notifications → [Enable Blocked].

On the topic of having nothing to hide, the following description of how 'privacy' differs from 'secrecy' really opened my eyes to the importance of the whole privacy issue and why…

I've been using Vimium [1] for years now to browse the web (almost) entirely via the keyboard and couldn't live without it. It's incredibly easy to use once you become familiar wit…

Because I love what I do.

I’ve posted this elsewhere, but it feels relevant here so I’ll share it again. I work remotely 80-90 hours a week using my laptop (this is important: your screen needs to be mobile…

My point is that unless we come up with some concrete definition of what "work" is, it's rather pointless to talk about its effects. A weight lifter might refer to 'work' as exerci…

I love my work, and doing something 80-90 hours a week that I love hardly seems like a problem. :-) I work 7 days a week, so it works out to around 12 hours a day. That gives me 4 …

The mobility they afford easily makes up for any negative effects. I couldn't imagine working from a fixed computer. I even tried putting my laptop on a stand and using an external…

Working 80-90 hours a week remotely with the freedom to work from an environment that you find relaxing is a lot different than working 80-90 hours a week in an office or dealing e…