My Yearly Music Playlists
A few years ago I started creating yearly playlists of my favorite music released in the calendar year. Listen on Apple Music & Spotify.
My Default Apps: 2023 Edition
Inspired by Robb Knight's list and several of my friends. This is my list of "default" macOS apps I'm using in Dec 2023.
My at home coffee setup
Coffee has become a bit more of a hobby since I moved-in to my current place where I have room for a dedicated coffee bar. I've gone all-in on collecting pour-over coffee gear.
2022 in review
If you know me you may have noticed that I've almost completely stopped participating in "mainstream" (billionaire owned) social media, so I thought it might be interesting to try a newsletter style thing near the start of 2023.
10 Song Playlist: Lucky
2022 has been one of the most transformative years of my life so this playlist is an attempt to select some of the most meaningful music during this period. You'll probably be able to infer some themes in my life based on the lyrics.
Digital Privacy + Security Tools 2022
Having good "tech hygiene" can save you a lot of potential headache from; forgotten passwords, recovering compromised accounts, credit card or bank fraud, spam, identity theft, and data loss.
Here are some inexpensive and free tools that I use.
MacStories 2022 Automation April Shortcuts Contest Winners
“iPod Shuffle” won Best Media Shortcut!!! Thank you to MacStories and all the judges!
iPod Shuffle Shortcut v1.1
I made some improvements to my iPod Shuffle Shortcut for Apple’s Music app (iOS & macOS) that I’m very excited to share with the world. Plus 6 new icon colors!
“iPod Shuffle” Music Shortcut for iOS + macOS
“iPod Shuffle” for Apple’s Music app (iOS & macOS) creates a fresh 100 song shuffle from your library based on how recently songs were added; how recently songs were last played, and how many times a song has been skipped.
My Venture into the World of Audiophile Headphones
When Apple released the $549 AirPods Max at the end of 2020 I had to fight the immediate urge to pre-order a set because I'm a bit of an Apple and music enthusiast, it seemed like Apple was positioned to mainstream Hi-Fi headphones the same way the iPod mainstreamed MP3 players.
Spring 2015 Gaming PC Build
It was finally time to retire my old 2009 Core2Duo build for something modern!