I use BBEdit’s Scratchpad window all day. For some reason I’ve never thought about making it easier to get to the window. While perusing BBEdit’s Google Group, I spotted this message by Fletcher, in which he provides a simple AppleScript for doing just that. 1 2 3 4 5 tell application "BBEdit" activate open scratchpad document set the index of the window of scratchpad document to 1 end tell In his post, Fletcher uses an Automator Service but I prefer Keyboard Maestro.

Thomas Fitzgerald’s photo management workflow is reasonably similar to mine. I also process my photos using Lightroom and export them to Photos. I’ve been manually importing the exported Lightroom photos into Apple Photos and hadn’t spent the time to simplify that process. Thomas did it for me! Thomas uses Hazel to watch his export folder and automatically import anything new into Photos. I’ve been using Hazel for years but did not know it could do that.

In this interesting post about tools by Matt Birchler he wrote that “Newton is the best email app I have ever used.” Intrigued, I installed the 14-day trial. After 20 minutes I realized Newton isn’t for me. I’m a multi-pane guy. I’ve used Mail.app or Mailmate, or Mutt or Emacs/Mu4e on my Mac for years. Newton behaves differently than all of those (by default). It shows a simple list of messages, and clicking a message opens the message rather than highlighting it and displaying its contents in a separate pane.

Well that was certainly chock full of un-simulated sex. Otherwise, it was nothing. Maybe it was better in 3D.

I can’t explain why I didn’t enjoy this more. I don’t feel like I learned much of anything new about Spielberg or his movies.

If film is meant to be a visual art form, then “The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears” certainly qualifies. I didn’t want to blink for fear of missing something. I found no sign of a narrative, though. In this case I didn’t mind.

Doc Searls: All printers. All USB hubs. The fucking cloud. … His list is even longer than mine. Looks like I’m not the only person suffering from Technology Fatigue

A few weeks ago I wrote that “Technology exhausts me.” I was exaggerating to make a point, but it’s still happening; and getting worse. I’m just not in the mood. I’m not in the mood for any of my devices. I’m not in the mood for social media. I’m not in the mood for syncing, or two-factor authentication, or JavaScript frameworks, or WordPress issues, or Emacs hanging, or my Watch not seeing my phone, or firmware upgrades, or Alexa not turning on my lights, or any of dozens of other things I deal with daily.

I have several Sonos speakers in my house. I also have several Amazon Echos. I’ve always wanted them to work together, and now they can. I installed the latest Sonos and Alexa apps, let Alexa “discover” my Sonos devices, and now I can say, “Alexa, play Tom Petty in the living room” and that’s what she does. It’s been working great so far. The Sonos speakers are vastly superior to the little Echo speakers.

I slimmed down the templates and Hugo renders my site even faster: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Built site for language en: 0 draft content 0 future content 0 expired content 2272 regular pages created 458 other pages created 2 non-page files copied 114 paginator pages created 216 tags created 8 categories created total in 1290 ms That’s down from around 2600ms

Hey apps, stop begging me to turn on notifications. I turned them off for a reason. Leave it alone, already.

I love picking an ink and filling a fountain pen. Bernanke Blue is one of my favorites