Automatically Activate your Dev Environments

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I work on a bunch of projects.

Part of switching to a project often involves some setup commands, e.g. adding a directory to my $PATH, exporting env vars, or activating a Python virtualenv, etc.

Remembering everything I need to do sucks and is error prone, so I automate it …

Paperless Documents

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To combat my innate propensity for pack ratting, I made the decision to digitise all my documents. Steve Losh wrote a fantastic article on how he went paper-free and much of my process is based on his flow. However, I wanted to lay out mine for posterity (and because I'm …

Archiving Banking Transactions

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I'm a long term user of internet banking and for a few years I've done so without paper records. This left me in the position of having no form of backup outside my bank; hardly an ideal situation. Most banks provide a way to download your transactions, usually in CSV …

Switching to ErgoDox

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I've had pet peeves with standard layout keyboards for as long as I can remember. The slanted and unbalanced layout has always seemed so illogical to me. I'm aware of the history behind their design, but whereas so many other things have been improved on computers, keyboards have remained essentially …

Leaving a Team on Slack for iOS

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I recently tried to sign out of a team on Slack for iOS and found the process to be non-obvious and a lack of documentation made it harder. I'm writing this mostly for the next time I need to do it and have forgotten how.

Open the Team menu with …

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