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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I used it extensively to help me code my PHP for an art portfolio site. Briefly thought about using 11ty but needed to put something up quick after being laid off and I knew PHP.

    For the most part it was good. It was really good at creating simple functions for me. My issue came when I asked it to build me a JS lightbox in Bootstrap. i wanted it to look a certain way so I had to edit my prompt multiple times because it would edit the code and “forget” my previous modification. Ended up using someone else’s JS code.

    It was incredibly frustrating. It’s powerful, but still limited.
















  • Whenever I get a new computer I install these right away.

    Used everyday:

    • Alfred: customizable productivity tool. It’s a launcher, file searcher, web searcher, clipboard manager, snippet manager, script runner, etc with a robust community making scripts.

    • Textpander: a text replacer I’ve been using before Apple’s and Alfred’s solutions.

    • Bettertouchtool: customize keyboard and trackpad shortcuts

    • Notational Velocity/nVALT + Obsidian: note taking synced across my devices. NValt for quick notes while Obsidian is for long form and personal knowledge management. Just plain text files in a communal vault somewhere.

    • Dropbox: mainly used to sync settings for apps and notes across devices.

    • 1Password: password generation and management for me and my girlfriend. A little pricey, but I love it. been researching alternatives.

    Also handy:

    • Better Rename 9: rename files. Replace characters or strings, add in number sequencing, convert casing, etc. I have a lot of photos and work with a lot of images so this comes in handy

    • Copyqueue: file copy. Enables a queue for file copy.

    • Hidden Bar: menu bar management

    For my watch:

    • App in the Air: is a nice airport companion that visually shows the airplane phases (boarding, flight duration) with accompanying info (like gates and delays)