Tom Lieber

how did it happen that everything came to taste like clif bar

Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusion I feel like I can figure anything out when I create a file with the lab notebook template.

I used to wait 3 hours for incremental Time Machine backups to finish, but now they take 30 seconds w/APFS on a solid state drive.

current status: undergoing this year’s rediscovery of reactive documents

You know how Netflix search returns random recommended shows that have no relation to your query?

These streamline linking: ⌘⌥C copies the path to the current note, but strips .md ⌘K pastes whatever link is in the clipboard, using the selected text as the link title ⌘O opens a fuzzy-file-finder that matches filenames, aliases, and level-1 headings; pr…

Check out this video’s comment section and be amazed at how Zanzlanz got people excited about dot products.

My Obsidian vault is officially my music library :} You know how !

I’m over here just speaking Obsidian features into existence daily

alltom.com finally has SSL and I want to shout about it!

I asked Claude about structured logging libraries for Python and when I saw the options I was like “that is so over the top for this project, I love it” The status changed to “Chuckling…” as it installed several deps, connected my 4-line script to jaeger,…

When a cable modem fails in such a way that it produces persistent, high-pitched squealing, that’s a pretty good Father’s Day gift

I love my Peak Design Everyday Backpack, but when I take it to work, the main compartment is almost always completely empty.

The frustrating thing about building AI software is how it’s like pulling an engine’s starter cord only for it to cough a few times without starting.

I love asking AI to “find a restaurant that’s equidistant from these two places.”

Banger from Claude this morning: Have you consumed anything besides stress today?

I think it’s funny that tapping repeatedly and long pressing are mapped to power user features because that’s what kids do first and it just wreaks havoc on computer systems as a result.

The wild thing about programming with LLMs is documenting a function’s runtime cost in big-O notation and USD.

“Do I have any events this week that it looks like I forgot to add to my wife’s calendar?”