Today I Learned

Using open-interpreter to create a DIY audiobook with say

I used open-interpreter to read an epub file and create a DIY audio book.

Improving User Experience with Auto-Focus in 2FA Input

There is a website I log into often that I protect with 2FA. One thing that bothers me about this process is that the 2FA screen does not immediately focus to the input, so I can immediately start entering my 2FA code. Today, I tackled that problem.

Removing the First Line of a File

I usually use

Importing Activities for a Temporal Workflow in Python

A spot where I slipped up in trying to adopt Temporal in an existing Python project and then again in starting a new Python project was in defining a Workflow that invokes an Activity that calls a third party library. Temporal outputs an error message with a long stacktrace that I vaguely...

Disable Obsidian's blinking cursor

A post about disabling the blinking cursor in Obsidian

I wanted to stop the Obsidian editor cursor from blinking. Something like VS Code's

Cursor Introduction

Cursor is VS Code with Cmd+K that opens a text box that can do text generation based on a prompt. When I created this post, I first typed insert hugo yaml markdown frontmatter

Next.js Async Functions

The problem with long running code in Next serverless functions

Intro to TypeChat

First attempt

Warp: first impressions

I downloaded Warp today. I've been using iTerm2 for years. It's worked well for me but Warp came recommended and so I figured I should be willing to give something different a chance. Warp looks like a pretty standard terminal except you need to sign-in, as with most things SaaS these days. It...

Nix Language

To broaden my knowledge of nix, I'm working through an Overview of the Nix Language.