My custom molded attenuating earplugs

My journey of getting a pair of custom molded earplugs made

March 28, 2022 · 5 min · 975 words

Some tiny personal programs I've written

A tour of the small personal programs I’ve hacked together: a covid slackbot, an apartment finder for Tokyo, CLI tools, and some HomeKit glue.

March 19, 2022 · 5 min · 899 words

Anybox: Productive little bookmark manager

Anybox is a bookmark manager built for people who live in quick-open dialogs and command palettes. Why it replaced my browser bookmarks and Raycast.

March 15, 2022 · 4 min · 690 words

How I manage my digital life in 2022 (feat. Obsidian, DEVONthink & Friends)

The apps that run my digital life in 2022: DEVONthink as my digital office, Obsidian for notes, and the rest of the stack that finally stuck.

February 1, 2022 · 10 min · 2069 words

d.sh

I somehow ended up owning d.sh, a single-letter ccTLD domain, after a casual bid on a premium name auction. Now I just need to decide what to do with it.

January 25, 2022 · 1 min · 139 words

VPN connections and local network traffic on Mac

These days I’ve been trying to be more conscious about my online footprint and privacy in general. I’ve been using one-off email addresses for years now (btw check out my recent post on masked emails if you haven’t yet), and have a bunch of little scripts that spit out things like random usernames when I hit “!” 3 times. But honestly speaking, IP addresses were one of those things I just kind of didn’t really care about. ...

January 21, 2022 · 3 min · 570 words

Creating Fastmail Masked Emails without 1Password anytime and everywhere

Reverse-engineering the Fastmail JMAP API to build maskedemail-cli, so I can create Masked Emails from my shell or a hotkey instead of 1Password.

December 17, 2021 · 2 min · 355 words

Thoughts on Metaplex, candymachine and NFTs on Solana

My honest take on building NFT projects with Metaplex and candymachine on Solana: missing docs, copy-paste culture, and where the rough edges are.

December 10, 2021 · 8 min · 1526 words

Getting SoftBank WiFi hotspots working on Mac

Usable on smartphones only? Challenge accepted.

December 8, 2016 · 4 min · 804 words

Hello (Neo)Vim, good to see you again!

hardtime pulled me back to VIM, and NeoVim made me stay. Rebuilding my vimrc from scratch with spacemacs style mnemonic keybindings and layers.

January 22, 2016 · 4 min · 690 words