imwally

This is the reason I swapped my 16” for the M1 Air. The silence is bliss.

I always try Reader View to circumvent modals like that.

AirPods Pro: Noise cancellation in earbuds alone is worth the price but with the introduction of spatial audio in Apple Music, the price is even more justified. Listen to Radiohead's Live from the Basement!

MacBook Air M1: Dumb fast and dead silent. Everything I want from a computer.

Fellow Stagg EKG Electric Kettle: Great design and simple controls. Slowly weened myself off coffee and started drinking Yorkshire Gold tea at home. I use this every day, multiple times a day.

https://github.com/imwally/battstat - CLI battery status indicator. https://github.com/imwally/untweet - destroy tweets and likes. https://github.com/imwally/linkview - like urlview but shows anchor text. Works great with mutt. https://github.com/imwally/pin - CLI pinboard client to add and manage bookmarks.

UNIX creator's initials on the cap. Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan.

Apple Magic Keyboard Wireless. It's small and light and has decent travel. The only setup is to remap caps lock -> ctrl so that I can use emacs-style keybindings throughout macOS.

You can still use Apple Pay with a passcode.

Hasn't Apple always offered a VESA mount version of the iMac?

I'm not being snarky, but is a "single .c file" a good metric? It could be a rather large single file, right?

Hmm, I'm still interested in a Dream Machine but I've been holding off for the so called SE[1], with the display on the front, similarly to the Amplifi Alien.

[1] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

I had a Dream Machine (the all-in-one, not the pro) and it fried the very next day. Even after that I was willing to give Ubiquiti another try, but now I don’t know what to do.

I’ve always been jealous of those who can nap. For whatever reason my body just doesn’t want to fall asleep. Even at night it usually takes me over an hour to fall asleep. Anyone else unable to nap?

On Fios here.

Yes, sites are loading very slowly, if at all. Thought it was AWS at first but Google services are having the same issue.

I was curious after seeing the accessibility statement what the previous administration's had.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/accessibility

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/accessibility.ht...

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/accessibility

With that last one not being surprising at all.

Drupal uses twig for templating now.

I'm a Fastmail user and I've been pretty happy with my mutt + mbsync / msmtp setup on macOS. It's nice to have a local copy of your mail at all times.

You can force a check in terminal with

    softwareupdate -l

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on but I'm not the only one it seems.

Here's a 173 page thread on MacRumors about it: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...

I’ve always used 15” MBPs without external displays as my only computer for years. I like being mobile and don’t particularly like having a desktop + laptop. Since COVID I’ve been stuck at home so I decided to finally get an external monitor. The problem is that you can’t use the 16” with an external display and the lid open without the fans spinning at full speed. Some people don’t mind it but it drives me crazy. Now it’s hooked up to my display in clamshell mode. Do I need all of that power? No, but I did want the biggest screen at the time when I purchased it a year ago. I plan on selling it when the new Air comes in.

Replacing my 16" MBP (8 core i9 2.3ghz / 32GB RAM) with the new Air as well. All of that power (yes I know, it's not sustained) without a fan is incredible.

This used to be a concern for me earlier on in my vegan years but I soon realized that veganism isn't about eating a "pure" diet, it's about the animals. The best thing for the animals is for these products to sell and I shouldn't let a little cross contamination deter me from that.

> The Halloween special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," premiered on Apple TV + on October 19 for Apple TV + subscribers, but Apple is also making it free to watch from October 30 through November 1.

via https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/27/peanuts-wildbrain-apple...

Yeah, it's a little meta. I was afraid that what I was trying to say wouldn't quite come across. It's why I mentioned "the shell I'm currently typing in" so many times.

Apparently it does not:

   ~ % which fstat
   fstat not found

I’ve read somewhere that they’ve been there since the NeXT days.

Remap the caps lock to control for emacs users :)

Emacs key bindings work system-wide on macOS. Having the same keys to navigate no matter what app you’re in is a huge productivity booster.

macOS has emacs style key bindings like this OS-wide.

Ctrl+e: end of line

Ctrl+a: beginning of line

Ctrl+p: go up a line

Ctrl+n: go down a line

Ctrl+f: go forward a character

Ctrl+b: go back a character

etc...

Yup, I think just bumping up the font size alone makes a huge difference, along with increasing the line height and margins. I know some people dislike this trend but I quite like it. Panic uses a similar style for the Playdate website[1].

[1] https://play.date