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🎉 Happy new year y'all!

For whatever reason, I spent most of my listening time this month going back to older music that I hadn't heard in a while.

These are some handy notes and things I learned while scrubbing the history of a large git repository with lots of history, and migrating it to a new URL.

Inspired by my good friend David, I've been experimenting with using LLMs not as tools, but as companions.

Lately I've been on the hunt for a personal database application that I could use to store, manipulate, and explore data important to me.

In a previous post, I outlined a method for converting Xcode's code coverage format to a format that Codecov can ingest.

💁🏻‍♂️ Update: Since writing this post, I've found a new method for converting Xcode's code coverage format to a format that Codecov can ingest.

Being the father of three small children means that I have very little time for myself.

Whenever re-running a job on GitHub Actions, there is a handy toggle for debug logging.

If you need to force an application on your Mac (and probably Linux too?)

I've noticed a trend over the past 5 years or so of music being made that is inspired by what was on the radio when I was growing up and old enough to pay attention (late 90s to the 2010s).

Have you ever wondered how to detect if a macOS app you're building was launched as a login item, as opposed to being launched manually by the user?

Say the words "Derived Data" to any Apple platform developer, and they will immediately cringe, remembering painful times of deleting the directory just to get Xcode to behave properly.

There were some great new releases this New Music Friday!

Here's the music that came out today that I was excited for, and a brief review of each one.

Here's a little fish function I whipped up to open GitHub in the web browser depending on the current state of the repo: function gv --description 'Opens the current repository in the browser, trying first to open a pull request, then a branch, then the r…

I discovered a lot of great music last month; some new releases, and some just new to me.

These are my favorite music releases from 2019 (listed in alphabetical order by artist name).

A semi-regular and overly verbose update on my personal projects.

My friend Rebekah sent me a link on Twitter to a post by Chris Richards titled Are podcasts killing music or just wasting our time?

Aceyalone & Mumbles' incredible and relatively unknown 1998 album A Book of Human Language was featured today on Bandcamp's "Hidden Gems".

This past week, two podcast episodes came out that I was involved in.

This little tip was surprisingly hard to find — only mentioned a couple times online — so I figured I'd do my part to spread the word.

Go check out this incredible web based visual explainer on sound waves by Josh Comeau1.

The other day, I was wishing for an easy way to update all of the CLI package managers on my computer at once, rather than having to type each command separately.

I've lived in the Twin Cities since 2009, and have come to know them fairly well.

After ordering an Apple HomePod, and learning that it supports iCloud Music Library for streaming music, I decided to give it another shot.

In the year 2017, I did many things, including: 👨🏻‍💻 Made 2,039 git commits (910 on GitHub + 1,129 at work) 🐦 Tweeted 942 tweets (down considerably from 6,077 in 2016!)

On New Year's Eve this year, my friends and I played one of my favorite games: Spicy Uno (a.k.a.

I may have fell off the bandwagon with updating this blog with my solo project status, but rest assured, I did finish the project.

This is technically the eighth day since I began my solo project, but I didn't do any work on the project on Sunday (although I did do some other web work).

Quinn Taylor: macOS 10.12 #protip: Finder supports ⇧⌘. to toggle visibility of hidden files, just like Open/Save panels have for a while.

A quick update: I just moved both hisaac.net and hisaac.blog to an Ubuntu VPS at Digital Ocean.

I didn't do too much today, as it's a weekend, but I did get a little work done.

Today's goal was simply to move the data I was receiving from Twitter via Firebase, into my database.

Today was a tough day actually.

I tweeted using my app (sort of) for the first time today!

My scope was approved at the end of yesterday, so today I got to begin actual coding.

Today, I started work on my solo project, a major component of the curriculum at Prime Academy.

Manton Reece: It's not easy to build software that encourages good behavior.

Recently, I noticed that contributions I made to forks on GitHub were not being counted toward the contribution tracker on my profile's page.

A few months ago, Merlin Mann tweeted a link to the Apple Support document on Mac keyboard shortcuts.

American Football's first album in 16 years opens with a song about two lovers who have become estranged after years of marriage, thus setting the tone for the rest of the album.

Marc Laidlaw worked for Valve Software from 1997–2016 as a video game writer — one of the first ever to hold that title.

I guess I missed World Mental Health Day (it was yesterday), but I would like to share anyway.

I love Bandcamp.

I've just undertaken a "GitHub Challenge" with fellow students at Prime Academy.

George Hotz — known as "geohot" online — is a sort of hacker legend.

It's been seven months since Emma died and two weeks since I started building a bot from her texts.

Quiver is a new favorite app of mine.