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Tommy Williams

@twwilliams.com

Software developer living in Helena, Montana. Interested in personal knowledge management, cocktails, cooking, bicycles, photography, and German Shepherd dogs. He/him.

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This is her first term in Colorado's 4th district. She represented the 3rd district for her first two terms.

06.05.2025 18:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know EF can be frustrating sometimes (I don't think it's possible to create an ORM that isn't).

But compared to the ORMs available in the JavaScript/TypeScript world, it's magical. I'm sure my teammates are tired of me saying, "we could do that easily in EF."

27.03.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rad Power Bikes CEO Phil Molyneux is out in latest shakeup at Seattle e-bike maker (Rad Power Bikes Photo) Phil Molyneux is no longer CEO of Rad Power Bikes, more than two years after the former Sony president took over the Seattle-based

I hope this doesn't mean Rad Power Bikes is even more trouble. Some of their recent bikes are interesting and I like the additional safety steps they have taken with their batteries.

www.geekwire.com/2025/rad-pow...

10.03.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hotkeys - Obsidian Help Obsidian allows you to customize hotkeys, also known as keyboard shortcuts. Default hotkeys are only defined for the most commonly used commands. If you frequently use a command, you can define a hot…

2/2 Edit your daily (or weekly or monthly) journal. Add a command, give it a name, select "Open today's note" as the "When command runs" option, and save it.

Then set a hotkey for that command. The official documentation explains how: help.obsidian.md/hotkeys

06.03.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - srg-kostyrko/obsidian-journal Contribute to srg-kostyrko/obsidian-journal development by creating an account on GitHub.

1/2 If you use the Journals plugin (a flexible way to manage calendars and daily notes) and used a hotkey to open today's daily note, that command went away with v2.

But there's a solution. See the next post in the thread.

github.com/srg-kostyrko...

#obsidianmd #pkm #obsidian

06.03.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I run into too many developer tools / libraries where the only documentation is generated from documentation comments in the source code (like JSDoc in JavaScript or XML Docs in C#).

26.02.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeff Bezos overhauls Washington Post opinion section, says it will focus on 'personal liberties and free markets' Opinion Editor David Shipley decided to "step away" after Bezos offered him the chance to continue in his role but under this new editorial focus.

If you were having any doubts about your decision to unsubscribe from The Washington Post, this should clear them up: www.nbcnews.com/media/jeff-b...

26.02.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SQL's origins are in set theory, and ascending and descending have been used there since Cantor created it in the late 1800s, I think.

Then words like increasing and decreasing can overlap with the concept of strictly inc/dec where each term must be larger/smaller than the previous, not the same.

21.02.2025 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Obsidian is now free for work Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.

Obsidian is now free for work.

Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site.

obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

20.02.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 769 πŸ” 209 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 43
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β€˜Murderbot’ First Look: Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd Stars In A Sci-Fi Comedic Thriller For Chris & Paul Weitz On Apple TV+ 'Murderbot,' a new comedic thriller series from Chris and Paul Weitz, stars Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd and hits Apple TV+ in June.

Are you excited to see the Murderbot stories brought TV, or are you more excited to see what The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon looks like?

theplaylist.net/murderbot-fi...

20.02.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alan Ritchson calls his childhood classmate Matt Gaetz a 'motherf---er': 'We are adversaries' Alan Ritchson doesn't hold a high opinion of former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz: 'That motherf---er. We are adversaries.'

This makes me feel even better about looking forward to Reacher Season 3 tomorrow.

ew.com/alan-ritchso...

19.02.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ukraine did not choose this warβ€”it was forced upon them by Russia's invasion. No country should be expected to bargain away its land and people in the name of so-called peace. Ukraine has every right to defend its sovereignty. #StandWithUkraine

19.02.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're trying to raise money to oppose T*mp and M*sk and all the garbage they're doing, DON'T do it by sending me text messages with their faces front-and-center.

I'm trying to avoid seeing and hearing from them, and I'm not giving you money if you make me look at them.

18.02.2025 23:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I sometimes wonder (more often than I should) whether allowing comments and trailing commas in JSON would have prevented the rise of YAML.

15.02.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I use them a lot since they're easy to type on the Mac (option+hyphen), but mostly for ranges of numbers. I rarely use them for other things like complex compound adjectives (the Tony award–winning songwriter).

09.02.2025 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been using em dashes since I discovered them during my first year in college in the late 1980s. When I used Windows, I used an AutoHotkey substitution to insert them, but on the Mac, it's simply shift+option+hyphen.

I also use en dashes to indicate ranges: 20 – 30. Option+hyphen on the Mac.

09.02.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's disappointing to see Azure Data Studio go away, but it does explain the dearth of updates over the past few months.

I'm find the VS Code extension experience more awkward, so maybe this pushes me to DataGrip from @jetbrains.com.

07.02.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is so much that is good there, but I want to highlight @mikeschmitz.bsky.social's three questions about considering the material we consume:

1. Who am I allowing to speak into my life?
2. What effect is that having on me?
3. Is that OK?

06.02.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for the pointer!

I agree about the lack of value in first-impressions-from-a-novice-user content.

06.02.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It could be about where his side of the bed is in the room relative to doors and windows.

At least that's what it has always seemed like for our dogs.

01.02.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Adding salt (or a saline solution) to cocktails has become common lately to enhance their flavor.

While I don't drink coffee, I find that salt works in cocktails, even bitter ones, which makes me think it would help coffee, too.

19.01.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It will be nice when this is a native feature.

09.01.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The account has already been suspended, so the reporting worked!

04.01.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I ordered some vanilla maple syrup. I bet that's going to taste fantastic.

04.01.2025 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re enjoying some lovely snow in Helena, a nice change given how little has fallen this season.

Even though I like snow, I still try to remember: β€œIf you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but the same amount of snow.”

I hope you have plenty of joy in 2025.

03.01.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Features in modern programming, like `cargo doc --open` in Rust that creates a rich local documentation Web site on the fly from the codebase, would have blown my mind when I started programming professionally in the 1990s.

And yet they seem to be little more than the minimum requirements today.

30.12.2024 21:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are like me, and can never remember the β€œclever” URL, use whatcanmyfontdo.com !

29.12.2024 15:18 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That is a very nice service from that redirect. Thank you for sharing.

29.12.2024 15:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have been typing on Dvorak keyboards since 1995 but have never used Arch Linux.

27.12.2024 19:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dvorak as in the keyboard layout? I've been using it since 1995 and am typing this message on a Glove80 keyboard with a Dvorak layout.

27.12.2024 19:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0