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Human context switching. I'm being cheeky; I mean closing down and bringing up all relevant applications, their state (open windows, tabs, files...) and so on for working on a given task or project. Sort of like a workspace manager for the OS. Releasing an open beta this winter. There's a short, low-res demo that kinda illustrates the basic concept on https://cleave.app
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Are you using wsl because AutoHotkey doesn't work on Linux... Back when I was on Windows I used to have ctrl-c, ctrl-v mapped to F1 and F2 keys (using AHK). Why they don't have dedicated keys I don't know
I'm on Windows 10. When I'm using it in Linux, it's via SSH through Mobaxterm, which is a fantastic and free Windows shell manager.
i absolutely love mobaxterm, but there's alot of cases where it seems like overkill for my purposes. that being said, nothing beats mobax when it comes to a stupid easy X server for windows. vcxserv and x410 are both nice and getting nicer, but you gotta sit down and work out kinks to make either one really useful
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I'm on Windows 10. When I'm using it in Linux, it's via SSH through Mobaxterm, which is a fantastic and free Windows shell manager.
are you using it for remotely accessing linux boxes? mintty+wsl-bridge aka wsltty has really come a long way in a short time, and i'm beginning to use it even for remote work alongside using it for wsl. call me shallow but it really boils down to it looking far, far better when staring at a vim buffer for hours... i absolutely love mobaxterm, but there's alot of cases where it seems like overkill for my purposes. tha…
I use Alexa to turn on ambient music and lights. It removes tedious screentime in a place I consider a sanctuary-esc. Worth the $75 rig.
I have a goal to eventually have most of my high tech stuff not involve a general screen either being a simple remote or voice so I don't get pulled down the rabbit hole.
I have a list of questions that I like to be thinking about and have an automated system that texts me one of those questions at random during my waking hours.
I use IFTTT to do a few things like this. Mostly motivational sort of stuff. I like this idea of asking myself questions.
I have a website that tells me when the next train leaves and if I need an umbrella: http://mazu.ai/ Probably a good idea for a startup actually, a 90s style "web portal" for urban commuters that tells you the weather, transit situation, and downloads some news articles for when you're in the tunnel.
That is very cool!
Lots of home automation fun with Home Assistant ( https://www.home-assistant.io ) * Self-hosted security system that e-mails me when triggered. It arms when everyone disconnects from the wifi and disarms when anyone in the home reconnects to wifi. Totally passive. Also arms at night when the kitchen lights have been out for 5 minutes after a certain time and disarms when motion patterns that can only be someone wakin…
I am looking to make my house more reactive as well. One area where HA has been a godsend was integration with TV/Music/idle off. Whereas there wasn't one solution which would shut off the TV and stereo in my set up once they were in Harmony Hub I could add idle timeouts for them in HA.
Another was theater lighting when the TV starts. In the theme of ambience I am looking at switching the lights to something more colorful when paused.
Nothing fancy or involved at all, but in my personal finance spreadsheet, I dynamically pull in Zillow's current estimate of my home value (which I take with a grain of salt obviously). I also use IFTTT to pause my robovac if my doorbell rings. Right now I'm working on a Mint scraper to automate the rest of my personal finance data entry, but running into headaches getting Selenium to work properly on Catalina.
There appears to already be a mint scraper on github
Nothing fancy or involved at all, but in my personal finance spreadsheet, I dynamically pull in Zillow's current estimate of my home value (which I take with a grain of salt obviously). I also use IFTTT to pause my robovac if my doorbell rings. Right now I'm working on a Mint scraper to automate the rest of my personal finance data entry, but running into headaches getting Selenium to work properly on Catalina.
Do you need to scrape Mint when it's just using Plaid?
All I care about is monthly account balances and month ending amounts for historic months for ALL accounts (cash, assets, debt) and then the net worth and net income monthly stats.
If I understand Plaid's pricing correctly, it's $500/mo to get what I want but I could be misunderstanding their docs. Would love to be told I'm wrong!
Nothing fancy or involved at all, but in my personal finance spreadsheet, I dynamically pull in Zillow's current estimate of my home value (which I take with a grain of salt obviously). I also use IFTTT to pause my robovac if my doorbell rings. Right now I'm working on a Mint scraper to automate the rest of my personal finance data entry, but running into headaches getting Selenium to work properly on Catalina.
Puppeteer is way better for scraping.