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Interesting things are afoot at the company known as OpenAI.

There I was, checking out Raycast’s updated website and looking at their tips videos, when I stumbled on the tip called Find Images by Text.

TextBuddy is a macOS utility app I love that lets you process text in all sorts of interesting ways.

Well, this is a fun one from Adam Douglas.

If you’re the kind of person I imagine would find and read this, you’ve read a ton of words already on the concepts of small web, indie web, and personal websites.

Did you know my Links page has an ever-changing Cool Site Spotlight?

Here’s a pitch for you: how’d you like to listen to a podcast that is both fascinating from the perspective of being about tech nerdery and podcasts in general AND that is also part of a PhD project?

One of the brilliant features of macOS is its built-in screenshot tools.

I previously wrote about using Raycast script commands to switch default browsers.

Not so very long ago, I wrote about using remark and a script called remark-modified-time.mjs to update a page’s front matter Date value for Auto-Generated Last Modified Dates in Astro.

Web frameworks like Astro often allow the use of Markdown for blog post “content”, that is, the actual blog post, and then the page design and programming is in a page template which takes the Markdown and renders its contents in the appropriate place for…

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Mac turned 40.

Not long ago, I created a Links page which I used to hold links I wanted to keep temporarily, like a little pinboard.

If you started using Nate More’s Astro Icon with Astro early on and are using a version lower than 1.0, you will be in for a surprise when you upgrade to the latest version of Astro Icon and suddenly find a lot of breaking errors related to it.

Back when the iPad Pro was my main mobile “work” device,[1] Drafts played a huge role in my writing and blogging.

I’m trying to figure out how to use remark plugins in Astro to modify a couple things in posts for me automatically, and along the way I’ve used remark to add a couple quality of life improvements.

I don’t remember how I stumbled across the now page movement started by Derek Sivers, but I immediately thought “what a great idea!”

As you saw from my Default Apps December 2023 post, I use Safari for personal use and Chrome for web work and for some administrative and server-related tools that work best in it.

Once upon a time,[1] the Hemispheric Views podcast held the first ever Duel of the Defaults in which they decided who was the winner at using the most default apps for several categories.

I like Warp.

The last time I wrote about image optimization and responsive images in Astro, there were some compromises to be made in order to use astro:assets image optimization.

There I was sitting in bed after a long work day, reading SixColors, as one should, when I stumbled across this article: Audio Hijack adds automatic transcription.

I talked previously about the recording software I use for podcasting on the Mac.

Astro 3 is here and you’re looking at a site published with it.

One of Raycast’s core features is Clipboard History.

If you’ve listened to recent Friends with Brews episodes, you probably know that I’ve gotten into Raycast in a big way.

As I wrote yesterday, I celebrated John Siracusa’s every-five-year Hypercritical t-shirt sale with a new Hypercritical Gold Theme for this site.

Edit: I called this Hypercritical Yellow.

You’ve seen a lot of code blocks on this site in various posts of mine, primarily because I’m not ashamed to show what a bad programmer I am or how excited I am that I learned something that’s probably rudimentary to many people.

One of my site to-do items for a while now has been doing something with the keywords I add to each post’s front matter.

I’ve talked about the hardware I use for podcasting, but what about the other tools of the trade?

Thanks entirely to Tiffany White, I finally implemented something that’s been on my site to-do list for some time, but that I’ve never gotten around to actually doing until now: link posts.

I’m linking to a year-old article on The Verge because I just started using Raycast today.

My friend Donnie Adams asked me on Mastodon if I’ve ever written anything about my podcasting setup and recording and editing workflow.

In my last post, I talked about the bizarre world of Safari bookmark descriptions and how to edit them, and I justified this weird tangent on my part by the fact that I want to use Fastmarks for searching for and opening bookmarks.

Yesterday I learned about a really cool way to edit Safari bookmark descriptions in macOS.

Because I include full body text in my RSS feed, I use an html sanitizer called sanitize-html to sanitize, escape, and encode everything in the item body.

Every episode of Friends with Brews, I need to generate images for the drinks to include in the podcast chapter artwork and (more importantly) to feature on the website.

I’ve been on podcasts with both Clay Daly and John Chidgey before, including on my own Friends with Brews podcast, but I’ve never been on a podcast with both of them at the same time before.

In my last post, I had a comparison of two different versions of the scripts portion of my site’s package.json file.

I thought I’d talked about Pagefind and Astro-Pagefind here before, but my very own site search which itself is built using Astro-Pagefind says otherwise.

One of the beautiful things about CSS grid (and in my opinion, there are many) is the ability to name grid sections (template areas) and then assign the children (the grid items) to those sections.

If you’re reading this thinking “this site looks a little bit different”, you’re correct.

GPT - What is it good for?

I inadvertently lied to you.

Just about one year ago, Joe Rosensteel wrote on SixColors about putting local weather data in his menu bar.

I’ve been playing with using ChatGPT (via MacGPT) with the gpt-3.5-turbo model to help script things.

Last month I wrote about Bunch, a wonderful utility for scripting work sessions, complete with sets of apps and the ability to customize various Mac settings.

Until now, Astro hasn’t had a built-in way to dump image links in straight Markdown content files and have Astro generate optimized images and responsive HTML for them.

I talked before about Whisper.cpp and my goal of getting episode transcripts up on the Friends with Brews website.