TIL: don't need no rectangle

you can bend macos to your will raycast. (worth the pro subscription for cross device sync and the ability to replace a crapton of individual little apps.) has pretty solid window management functionality built into it these days and it does almost everything that i need it to do in terms of layout and snap-to functionality. there was one thing i kept rectangle pro around for namely the ability to move a window around without having to use the title bar....

December 16, 2024 · steve ulrich

TIL: white markers that don't suck

the only white paint pen that i’ve found that does not suck is the sharpie paint (fine) - oil based. meta location: minneapolis, mn weather: ☁️ (Overcast) +42°F(+36°F)

November 24, 2024 · steve ulrich

rclone (remote) token update

when your super spiffy rclone setup needs a token refresh … ssh into the server remotely with the requisite port forwarding enabled. ssh -L 53682:localhost:53682 username@server update the token rclone config update <myremote> env_auth true do the needful with your OAuth provider meta location: minneapolis, mn weather: 🌫 (Mist) +64°F

December 3, 2022 · steve ulrich

breaking (n)vim changes

overview over the course of the past year i’ve more or less been forced to move off of emacs and onto nvim. the positive impact on my fingers and hands has been huge. but the retraining of years of muscle memory has been more than a little painful. i’m still getting my vim mojo, but i think i’m more or less 80% as productive as i was previously. recently, i noticed that with the move to nvim 0....

December 24, 2021 · steve ulrich

removing snaps from ubuntu 20.04 LTS

# list the snaps installed by default % snap list # remove these 1 by 1 % sudo snap remove <snap-name-from-above> # remove any snap directories % sudo rm -rf /snap /var/snap # purge snapd from the system % sudo apt purge snapd

April 25, 2020 · sulrich