October 9, 2019 • #
I’ve been looking for a smooth way to dictate notes and thoughts while hands-free from my phone, particularly while running or driving.
When I run I typically wear one AirPod and have my phone inaccessible in a waistband pouch on my back. Since I’m usually listening to audiobooks while running, I don’t have an easy way to log thoughts or perform the audio equivalent of highlighting things.
I never use Siri at all but for a couple of easy, reliable Shortcuts for dictation. I thought this was a perfect candidate to explore the “Hey Siri” activation support with custom commands...
✦
June 4, 2019 • #
This guide is a great example of how a lot of introductory walkthroughs of technology should work. Every time I’ve worked with new users to help them understand using the command line, Unix commands, or git, people only mimic the individual commands they’re supposed to type without a fundamental understanding of what’s happening.
This’ll now be the first place I send anyone new to git. I know this would’ve helped me a ton in wrapping my mind around how it all worked, and I already had some familiarity with the SVN “trunk” versus “branch” structure. The sketches throughout help especially...
✦
February 25, 2019 • #
A couple months back I built a “Books” section of the site to house my library. This is something I’ve been keeping in a spreadsheet for a while now, and still maintaining on Goodreads. But I wanted a more data-driven way for me to be able to manage the info, like a CMS. Since I write book reviews with regularity, I also wanted it to function as reference data that could be included in book review posts, without having to replicate the data I want to have displayed.
Using Jekyll’s collections feature, the library section starts with...
✦