Infrastructure – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

A quieter iPad Home Screen

2021-01-17 | Reading time: 3 minutes

Unfortunately, iOS does not allow you to customize your device as you'd like. Fortunately, the Shortcuts app can be used to create custom icons for any application. Which in turn allows you to make the home screen less ... visually noisy.
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External SSD for Quick Backups

2021-01-07 | Reading time: 1 minute

Backups, Backups, Backups. Early & Often. External. Good advice, but they can take some time. A reason to get an SSD for (some) backups.
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A Notability-based Digital Bullet Journal on a Tablet — Best of Both Worlds?

2021-01-06 | Reading time: 13 minutes

If you like to use a bullet journal, but do not like the disadvantages of paper — why not use a tablet and keep a digital handwritten journal. Essentially the best of both worlds. (An idea in progress.)
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Media-Shabbat

2021-01-06 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Disconnecting from the externally paced feed of the world — every weekend. With a media shabbat.
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Removing tiny distractions

2021-01-06 | Reading time: 1 minute

Especially in creative sessions, it might be nice to remove those tiny distractions. The grain of sand in your eye, sabotaging your attention.
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Selective iOS Calendar Widget

2021-01-06 | Reading time: 1 minute

You can configure which calendars you see in the iOS up next widget, for example, if you have duplicate calendars on different platforms to increase resilience and want to see each appointment only once.
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Reading Setup Update

2020-12-09 | Reading time: 3 minutes

An update on my reading setup, due to a question of what I would suggest.
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Exporting ical Calendar Entries

2020-12-08 | Reading time: 2 minutes

End of the year, time for a calendar cleanup. Here's an R script that transforms .ics entires into easy to read logbook text entries.
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Syspolicyd, Periodically High CPU Load, Reading Huge Amounts of Data, on Mac Big Sur (and likely Catalina as well)

2020-12-02 | Reading time: 2 minutes

After installing Big Sur, I noticed a periodically high CPU load, and later found out that huge amounts of data (2.8 TB, yep, *T*B) were read from the HDD within a short amount of time. Turns out, it's very very likely some unsigned .pkg files from gog.com were to blame.
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An UN Controlled Earth makes for really scary Sci-Fi in “The Expanse”

2020-11-23 | Reading time: 1 minute

Fuck Aliens, there is something much, much worse than "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" — when you scream, and you're just one of millions. A mere statistic.
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