Subcurrent | Astoria Tech Meetup

Now that I had a working serial cable for my Nexus 5, as described in the "Making an UART cable for the Nexus 5" post, I was ready to face some action and help in upstreaming.

Kerri Shotts and I started a little podcast called I'd Rather Be Scripting.

My file manager of choice is ranger.

Music is life.

One of the main ideas of GTD is to have a context associated with each task, so that it is very easy to see which tasks can be done in your current context.

A virtual event coming up on Wednesday, August 26 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm

For a long time I used offlineimap to synchronize my emails between the email providers and my computer.

Quick steps to create a Node.js, Express, and Postgres playground.

Looking at how to analyze basic health metrics of the FOIA request system using the MuckRock API.

Helping users around spelling errors with fuss-free JavaScript library for fuzzy search.

Our open source Volunteer Dispatch bot is available for use by other organizations.

How to find the process using a busy local port on macOS and kill it so your Node.js dev server can restart.

Getting started with Rust.

Recently, me and a friend started digging into making the Nexus 5 run the mainline Linux kernel.

Is online-only the future of events?

How splitting off into a micro repo can speed up your iterations and help you produce better results.

Avoiding unexpected date mutations by cloning.

My go-to node modules for basic command line argument parsing.

Another new thing that came to Lightroom yesterday is the Share Edit (beta) feature.

The cross-app workflow sings, and I'm excited to have Photoshop available to me as a companion to Lightroom on iPad.

So now I've got this little Node.js shelves CLI that I likely will never need again.

I like watching movies and playing games, but I also like to keep track of which movies I've watched and which games I've beaten.

Spoof is a Node.js module that makes it super simple to change your MAC address on the fly.

Check out the Playball CLI for watching MLB games in your terminal.

A bird photographed on a trail hike in Garrison, New York, with a Fujifilm X-T20 and XF 50-140mm lens.

A pull request for bootstrapping XD plugins with the xdpm CLI.

Check out the recording of “Moving to zsh” from MacSysAdmin 2019 if you’re looking for a way in to learning about zsh, the new default shell in macOS.

I’m going with the Ghost CMS for publishing this blog.

There are multiple ways for a user to exit a modal-based XD plugin, and for your plugin’s code to handle those exits.

Shelling into a local Mac with Prompt 2 for iOS by Panic, an ssh client for iPhone and iPad.

Grepping my zsh setup shows that many of my shell aliases and settings are coming from Oh My Zsh.

A few basic points to keep in mind when creating modal dialog UI for XD plugins.

Notes from learning how zsh aliases work, including where they are defined and how Oh My Zsh changes the picture.

Since macOS has now moved from bash to zsh, it seems like a fine time to revisit the basics of my preferred shell.

It's the Saturday after Adobe MAX, coming down from what is a very busy time each year, so I wanted to start somewhere simple: my Terminal.