Infrastructure – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Mac Widgets – Show or Hide Widgets quickly via a Keyboard Shortcut

2025-04-13

MacOS desktop widgets are quite useful, there might be moments when you want to quickly hide your todo's or appointments. This can be achieved with a small Automator app and Spotlight.
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Generative AI Chicken Test Short Comparison

2025-02-23

Just a quick comparison of the answers of ChatGPT, Gab AI, and Grok to the Chicken Test.
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Recommendation: JD Vance at the AI Action Summit

2025-02-11

Interesting speech on treating AI as an opportunity, not as something to regulate into oblivion or to use for censorship.
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Using an SD Card Drive of a Notebook as an Escape Pod Backup Drive

2025-02-03

If your notebook has an SD card drive, how about turning it into a separate micro-storage drive?
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AI will go rogue due to good intentions and a lack of imagination

2025-01-17

Good intentions and not being able to image how things can really go wrong will lead to AI disasters.
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Free RSS Reader for Mac

2024-11-24

RSS readers are a great way to stay up-to-date with academic journals, blogs, YouTube videos, and much more.
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Downloading m3u8 streams as .mp4 Videos

2024-11-24

Using ffmpeg (or vlc) to download m3u8 streams.
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Dealing with Images in Obsidian — identifying duplicates, checking the extension, quickly resorting them in a gallery

2024-11-24

If you collect a lot of images, you might have duplicates. If you want to identify them, a simple R script can help. And it can resort them and more.
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Beauty Alerts

2024-11-18

Given all the emergency warning and disaster alerts, how about an App the «warns» when something beautiful is happening?
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Apple OS Sequoia Menu Design Failure

2024-11-18

Just a short comment on really bad menu design.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.