I love to automate my life. If you ask my wife she might say I love it too much.
Of course I’m a fan of the Automators podcast. It’s an Apple centric automation podcast.
I am compiling a list of all the apps they mention on the show. so that I don’t loose track of them.
God this stuff coming out of Bucha 🇺🇦 is horrifying.
Pres. Zelensky gave a really powerful speech yesterday. Everyone should read it.
Latest Zelenskyy address from last night. It's powerful, and it should be devastating for some in West to hear. In it, he switches between Ukrainian and Russian to deliver a message in response to the war crimes in Bucha. What follows is graphic. Here are main points...
— Zoya Sheftalovich (@zoyashef) April 4, 2022
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I just read through a thread from @DanPriceSeattle on how Amazon treats its workers.
Thread on how Amazon treats its workers
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) April 1, 2022
Context:
Amazon full-time warehouse employees make $31,200 a year. Jeff Bezos makes that every 12 seconds.
Cost to give warehouse workers 2 weeks paid sick leave + pay bumps so they don't qualify for food stamps = 0.9% of Bezos' fortune
It got me thinking about how much I rely on Amazon. I probably don’t need to shop for everything there but I admin I do it out of convenience.
Can I actually ween myself off Amazon? The first step is to find alternative retailers for the things I buy the most.
I shop at a local bookstore in my town whenever I can but I prefer digital books. Luckily, they have a relationship with Kobo Books so they get some money whenever I make a purchase.
With the app Calibre and some plugins, I can load those books onto my Kindle if I want to.
I’m doing some cursory reviews of warehouse worker conditions and it seems like Target is better.
B&H has more than just camera equipment.
I’ve been digging into Apple Shortcuts and built this Shortcut to help me with heads down time.
It does a couple of things here.
You can try the Shortcut here.
Does anyone else use Shortcuts for cool automations?
If you use Apple CarPlay don’t forget you can adjust the order of the apps that display on screen via settings on your iPhone.
Finally 📺 remake of West Side Story. I get that Spielberg needed to make changes to make it his own but I disagreed with most of the decisions.
Not sure how I’d feel about the movie if I wasn’t familiar with orig.
I like Michael Giacchino’s score to The Batman. It’s way to foreboding and intense to play as background music while working though.
It would be great if I could move @onedrive folder to an external HDD on macOS. Can’t seem to figure out a way to do that
– EDIT –
Mea culpa - you can. Just need to unlink, logout, login, set new folder.
Here’s an article that talks about how it all works. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/micros…
Kind of a bummer that the Apple Magic Trackpad doesn’t have a serviceable battery.
I have a smallish home automation setup which consists of lights, Google Assistants, and some cheap Aqara water sensors all pulled together via the excellent Home Assistant project.
Last night, at around 11:30, my Google Assistant tells me there is water near my water heater. I go downstairs to discover a burst pipe in the ceiling. Shut off the water mains and am awaiting a call back from a plumber.
I can’t imagine what a mess that would have been w/o the sensors.
Best money I’ve spent in a long time.
Watching Free Guy. It’s a TRON reboot.
That’s not a bad thing!
I’m using an Xbox Bluetooth controller on macOS Monterrey. Everytime I press the Xbox button the Launchpad opens.
It turns out that there is an Options menu under the Bluetooth devices System Preferences pane.
The relevant setting is Home Long Press. It defaults to Launchpad. Change it to “Off” and the Xbox button works correctly.
Friday night… am I watching TV? No. Video games? No.
Instead, I’m using ML/NLP to analyze ingredients in > 15k recipes clipped by @GetClipDish users.
Top ingredients? Salt, Garlic, Sugar, Olive Oil.
#bigdata #python
I’ve been doom-scrolling endlessly since last Thursday. Time to get back to work. I’ve reinstalled the app Focus on my desktop and removed Twitter from my phone.
Just came home to my dog looking down at a shredded ziploc baggie. Should I be worried?
Always be testing. www.joecotellese.com/blog/alwa…
It’s hard to get my head around the #Ukraine conflict. I don’t see how this doesn’t escalate.
I find that most of the time when I’m stuck on a “thing” it’s usually lack of understanding the lingo.
My family better get down here for dinner before I eat all the ham
If you have an M1 Mac and need to also run Windows, @HelloPaperspace is a great alternative to something like Parallels or Fusion.
I wish when tech support asks for video demonstrating a problem they actually watch the video rather than regurgitate what is probably some kind of boiler plate message when someone mentions a keyword.
Esp. when the latency between request & response is > 5 hours.
Maybe the best Onion headline ever
This guy went for his first drive last night. He was a little nervous but once we got the pet store all was well.
Watched the Tragedy of MacBeth last night. Great movie. I’ve not read or seen other adaptations.
Why did Ross save Fleance in the end? Is that in the book?
😁new Spoon album drops.