Jim Willis

If you use MacWhisper for voice-to-text dictation on your Mac, you’ve probably noticed the problem: when you hold down your dictation key, whatever audio is playing — Navidrome, Apple Music, YouTube, Spotify — bleeds into your microphone and garbles the t…

After updating to Tahoe (and this may be just coincidence) all of my cron jobs on my Mac starting erroring out.

[Update, Jan 2026 – this approach was garbage.

well, not from scratch, but I laced a new rim to my front hub this week with a minimal tool setup using mostly zip ties on my fork for a truing stand and a cheap spoke tension meter though, to be fair, once I got the tension close I relied a lot upon the…

Sometimes Readwise resurfaces exactly the right quote from 6 years ago that you need today: “Convenience is all destination and no journey.

A few thoughts on my first multi-surface ride with the Joe Appaloosa.

Here’s a quick one-liner to tail -f home assistant logs from a docker image.

To schedule the moOde library update to happen every night, you can use a cron job with the ‘mpc update’ command.

iOS Users: Sharing this iOS shortcut despite its very limited use case.

Friendly warning for new users of #linkding.

Mentioning here how helpful the native Mac OS app Yate is for cleaning up FLAC tags.

Took me a little while to get this sorted out so I thought I’d document it here: Music Assistant supports grouping speakers so, briefly put what you’re doing here is just creating a group with two HomePods, one playing the left channel, the other the right

It feels like magic to have no open ports on my router and still be able to access all of myself hosted services.

“The Christmas lights won’t turn on, better power cycle the server.”

Hard to imagine how long finding this answer would have taken before perplexity.ai: “I have an ecobee 3 lite and an aquastatic, 2 taco valve boiler– Can I use the ecobee to control one of the valves and my old thermostat for the other valve?”