""Listen for Siri" (and Apple Intelligence) can still detect audio"

Cut the microphone of the mac, for real.

A feedback after 10 years of usage: https://sgoel.dev/posts/10-years-of-personal-finances-in-plain-text-files/

Fast, flexible mock API server powered by JSON configuration and a lightweight scripting language (rjscript).

The devlog
https://plok.sh/harmoneer/taman

Taman is a TUI Pomodoro productivity app where your focus sessions literally grow plants!

• 1password
• direnv to load envs only in specific directories

Find dependencies already used in the project to avoid to install them again.

A Swiss-army app for developers

Project: https://github.com/skatkov/devtui

Some useful tips in the CLCLI to handle dotfiles and customization of the shell.

But over time, I think I discovered a better way: a script in my $PATH.

Benefits of scripts over aliases:

• No reloading; changes are picked up immediatly
• Choice of programming language
• Complex logic can be implemented
• More portable between shells

Aliases have certain benefits:

• special syntax (cd.. for cd .. with space)
• completion
• conditional definition
• easier to bypass with unalias
• brevity: it's a one liner
• performance: alias are 100x faster.

getsong make sense and so many useful scripts.

• copy and pasta
• mkcd
• tempe
• trash
• mksh
• serveit starts a static file server
• getsong
• getpod to download something from a podcast player
• getsubs
• wifi off, wifi on and wifi toggle
• url "my_url" parses a URL into its parts.
• markdownquote to add > before every line
• u+ 2025 to get the unicode caracter associated
• snippets to run some snippets
• some REPL launchers for Clojure, Deno, Php, Python and SQLite
• hoy prints the current date in ISO format
• timer
• ocr to extract text from an image
• removeexif to delete EXIF data from images
• emoji fuzzy finder helper https://codeberg.org/EvanHahn/dotfiles/src/commit/843b9ee13d949d346a4a73ccee2a99351aed285b/home/bin/bin/emoji

and more Process management scripts

Useful to parse events in the CLI and handle .ical exports.

Everything in one place: Organizations, contacts, projects, and how they relate.
Own your data: Plain text files and tooling that runs on your machine.
Open data model: Tailor to your business with custom schemas.
Automate anything: Search, report, integrate, whatever. It's just code.
AI-ready: LLMs can read, write, and query your business structure.

It's easy and the recordings can be converted to animated images (GIFs...)

Edit the directory and file names directly in vi

Get the meaning of an error code

oavif is a tool for target quality AVIF encoding using fssimu2, a fast perceptual image quality metric.

The project is hosted at https://github.com/gianni-rosato/oavif

Even if you don’t use yt-dlp, the idea still applies: when you find yourself copy-pasting configuration and options, turn it into a standalone tool. It keeps your projects cleaner and more consistent, and your future self will thank you for it

Alexwlchan also made a resize image tool https://alexwlchan.net/2024/create-thumbnail/