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My Dark Mode for Hacker News

My Dark Mode for Hacker News

Here are my custom uBlock Origin filters that I have added to give Hacker News a nicer looking dark mode. news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: #232834) news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##table:style(background-color: #1F2430) news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: #fafafa)

Quick Tip: Open files fast on Obsidian mobile

Quick Tip: Open files fast on Obsidian mobile

If you've ever wanted to be able to quickly open a specific note using the Obsidian mobile app you've probably found the quick switcher. Either by manually typing "quick switcher" into the command palette that comes up by default when you swipe down on

A Unique Scottsdale Sunrise by Dru Bloomfield - At Home in Scottsdale

The Unique Work of Your Life

If you and everything you've done were erased from existence, what else would disappear from the world? Most of us like to think that the work we do is important, that the place would fall apart without us there doing our job. But how important is the work

If Only Your Life Was a Little Worse

If Only Your Life Was a Little Worse

I wish your life was a little worse. If you life just a bit more lousy, maybe you'd take the steps you need to change it for the better. If your job was just a little bit more frustrating, maybe you'd hit the breaking point to

Node.js Fetch API - Saving a Web Stream to a File

Node.js Fetch API - Saving a Web Stream to a File

As of Node.js 18 the Fetch API is enabled by default. This is an exciting development that will allow you to use universal API between both Node and the browser for making REST API requests. I had to do some work with a REST API recently and rather than

Updating Node for Ghost 5.47.0 Update on Digital Ocean

Updating Node for Ghost 5.47.0 Update on Digital Ocean

I recently ran into an issue while updating Ghost to the latest version 5.47.0. When attempting to run ghost update I recived the following error message: Ghost v5.47.0 is not compatible with the current Node version. Your node version is 14.21.3, but Ghost v5.

How to Update Ghost on DigitalOcean

How to Update Ghost on DigitalOcean

When self-hosting Ghost you're on your own to keep it updated, here's the process I go through to keep this site up to date with the latest features added to Ghost. Before you make any changes, create a Snapshot of your server! Or at the very

"COMMIT NO NUISANCE" by Matt From London is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Reflections Featured

Life Is Better When You Commit To The Bit

Are you really living up to yourself and who you want to be? Are you happy with the way you spent your time today? Does what you do line up with who you think you are? The biggest influence on what you do every day are your identities. These beliefs

How To Open Windows Calculator From Stream Deck

How To Open Windows Calculator From Stream Deck

This is a relatively straightforward thing to do but I had to cobble together a couple of sources online, so I figured I'd put it all together in one place in case I or someone else is trying to do this down the road. TL;DR: If you

"Life is Sharing" by cogdogblog is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Share The Things That Are Important To You

No one knows what you care about if you don't tell them. Such an obvious and simple statement, but a surprising amount of people are terrified to share the things they care about. And they live a less fulfilling life as a result. Fear of judgement, being made

"Apple Tv (12478148855)" by Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

How To Fix Twitch App Audio Out of Sync on Apple TV with HomePods

This is the solution to a very specific and weird problem that I've run into recently with my Apple TV paired with HomePod Minis as my speakers. The Twitch app will get completely out of sync between the audio and video to the point where Twitch streams are

"Golfland start" by twid is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Start With The Interesting Part

Many people struggle to even start doing the things they tell themselves they want to be doing. You say you want to write, exercise, or learn to code but you never actually get around to doing it. Or you give it a try only on the rare occasion when you

"Silly Face" by phil41dean is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Do Something Silly Every Day

Life is too weird to be so serious all the time. A lot of the best things in life are pretty silly[1] . Laughter, flirting, romance, inside jokes, even owning a pet, it's all fairly silly and fun stuff. I think a lot of us could do with

If You're a Writer, Why Don't You Ever Write?

If You're a Writer, Why Don't You Ever Write?

Putting words on a page seems like it should be a relatively straightforward task. But if you’ve ever spoken to a writer, you’ve almost certainly heard many stories of woe. Many aspiring (or otherwise) writers find it an almost herculean task just to put words on a page.

The Problem of Too Much

The Problem of Too Much

Very few people throughout history have ever had to deal with the problems of having too much. In fact, most of our ancestors had the opposite problem, not having enough. Let that be food, water, shelter, information, etc. Most of the unique problems of our time come not from scarcity

There's Always Tomorrow: Stop Your Bad Impulses

There's Always Tomorrow: Stop Your Bad Impulses

"There's always tomorrow", there are few more frequent internal debates than those that include some variation of this phrase. You can always start your diet, workout routine, journaling practice tomorrow, or next Monday, or at the New Year. As long as it's not today.

"I'm a noob." by Andrew* is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

When Newbies Choose the Winners

In a rapidly growing ecosystem, it's often the newbies that decide who wins. Change often doesn't come from people changing their minds. Progress and change often happen because enough new entrants come in and do things differently, or make different choices about what tools to use

How to Uninstall a Stream Deck Plugin

How to Uninstall a Stream Deck Plugin

Uninstalling a Stream Deck plugin is quite simple but it took me a minute to track down the answer online. All you have to do is find the plugin in the list on the right hand side of the Stream Deck app, right click one of the plugin actions, then

"Twitter Buttons at OSCON" by Garrett Heath is licensed under CC BY 2.0

I'm Done Talking Down to People (My Rules for Twitter)

I'm not the first to make the observation that the incentives of social platforms have trained a whole lot of people to be disagreeable. This manifests to different extents and different ways on the different social platforms. Twitter is full of dunks, smug superiority, and endless talking down

"Change direction" by Phillie Casablanca is licensed under CC BY 2.0

How to Redirect www to non-www Domain for Ghost on DigitalOcean

If you're anything like me, soon after you set up Ghost with a DigitalOcean 1-click install [https://ghost.org/docs/install/digitalocean/] you stumbled upon the fact that your Ghost site didn't load when you added www in front of your domain name. But somehow it

"planning poker warm up" by fsse8info is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

My Plan for the Time of Crickets and Learning in Public

I finally did it! After months of slowly working towards opening up KyleUnboxed.com this weekend I finally put up my first public post. To a parade of... deafening silence. My one twitter follower actually unfollowed me after I tweeted out my post. Oof. A rough start to be sure,

"Night View of The Geisel Library, University of California San Diego" by o palssonis licensed with CC BY 2.0.

There is Nowhere Like the Library

The public library is one of the few places where we have brought into reality one of humanities best aspirations. A temple to knowledge, curiosity, and discovery. A place that holds the thoughts of history's greatest thinkers, novels from generations of storytellers, and knowledge of the world as