Inspired by the latest episode of the Automators podcast, I did two things. First, I started listening to the Taming the Terminal series that they recommended. So far so good. More practically, I created a bash alias for a couple of commands that I use almost every day. They use rsync to save...

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One of the reasons I subscribe to Uses This is that every so often I learn something incredibly useful that I had no idea existed. So it was today. Frank Rausch casually mentioned an Alfred workflow (which he wrote) to access special characters. Less than a minute later, all my troubles seemed s...

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Oh boy, am I on top of my game, or what?

It has been an absolutely delightful month. There was some hot weather, and some wonderful thunderstorms. The neighbourhood was empty, which pushed us to discover some nice new (to us) places for morning coffee. They won't replace our bar, but it was fun to be somewhere new. The terrace was blooming wonderful.

Life has been good.

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Lately I've had some difficulties with Overcast, my podcast player of choice. It would simply stop playing and go dark after about 10 seconds. It hadn't actually quit, and could be re-opened on the phone and then, even if I didn't touch a thing, would go dark again. I was baffled, and even asked on...

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Three weeks on, I'm still too stuck in reverse engineering mode to have made much progress coming up with a new theme for Grav.

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