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Mac toolbar widgets with xbar and rust

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(aside - I have some much bigger blog ideas but haven’t had the time to write them properly - so here’s just a small thing I find handy) Lately I wanted som...

Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy

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My grandfather, Dr Kornelis Sietsma was a Dutch Reformed Church minister in wartime Amsterdam. He preached in ways that offended the Nazi occupiers, and the...

Custom URI schemes in Obisidian (on a mac)

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My youngest child started school this week, so I have a bit of time for blogging! This is another “a neat hack that I’m sharing partly so I remember how I d...

Refreshing multiple git repos

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File under “blogging so I remember how I did this”… I often have the situation where I have a directory full of related git repositories related to one area...

Playing with Rust and Copilot

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The world is full of AI hype aright now - and often it’s blown out of proportion, both on the “everything is fine” side and the “machines are going to take o...