These are my notes, essay and unstructured ideas. This is a place for me to elucidate ideas. Not all posts are well thought out, organized, polished or even grammatically correct. Check out my Medium for more polished blog posts: https://medium.com/@ians I also make videos on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@iansinnott --- <!-- list posts --> - [[Smart Scales are Overrated]] - January 18, 2025 - [[The Appeal of Costco]] - January 17, 2025 - [[I don't talk to my computer enough]] - January 17, 2025 - [[Business Trips as a form of Time Travel]] - January 17, 2025 - [[Trialing new software - Calendar, Email]] - January 16, 2025 - [[Walking for different reasons, at different speeds]] - January 15, 2025 - [[Progress on creating YouTube videos quickly]] - January 14, 2025 - [[Build a Bun project for Node.js]] - January 12, 2025 - [[Mom's Post Going Viral]] - January 12, 2025 - [[Going to the gym in sandals]] - January 11, 2025 - [[One video a week?]] - January 10, 2025 - [[Gemini Experimental Advanced vs O1 Pro]] - January 9, 2025 - [[Model Context Protocol]] - January 8, 2025 - [[A review of o1 Pro so far]] - January 8, 2025 - [[Has Bun won?]] - January 5, 2025 - [[Delta-v by Daniel Suarez]] - January 5, 2025 - [[Poorly Designed Gondolas in Taipei]] - January 4, 2025 - [[Time enough for kids]] - January 3, 2025 - [[Working around limitations in Obsidian Publish]] - January 2, 2025 - [[Markdown as a blogging platform]] - January 2, 2025 - [[Setting up a new computer]] - January 2, 2025 ## 2024 - [[Goals 2025]] - December 29, 2024 - [[How to get VSCode extensions in Windsurf]] - December 26, 2024 - [[Yazi is a better Finder TUI]] - December 23, 2024 - [[nnn is so close to being great]] - December 22, 2024 - [[The Hero JS Needs]] - April 8, 2024 ## 2023 - [[Faster unit tests with Bun]] - November 3, 2023 - [[SvelteKit- Hitting the frontend sweet spot]] - July 27, 2023 - [[The TL;DR Should Come First]] - June 1, 2023 - [[The Joys of Using What You Build]] - May 15, 2023 - [[Rewind.ai Review]] - March 28, 2023 - [[Pairwise- A retrospective]] - February 6, 2023 - [[Alfred needs an app store]] - January 23, 2023 ## 2022 - [[SvelteKit - A biased review]] - December 26, 2022 - [[The Steam Deck]] - November 3, 2022 - [[A Review of Alternative Browsers]] - October 12, 2022 - [[A solution to so many apps for so many things]] - March 29, 2022 ## 2021 - [[The death of a dog]] - December 4, 2021 - [[How to prioritize speed]] - November 15, 2021 - [[Is my couch hurting my productivity]] - October 7, 2021 - [[The Weekend Effect]] - October 7, 2021 - [[Cold Showers]] - October 7, 2021 - [[Show me the source or show me your business model]] - October 3, 2021 - [[Replacing Dropbox]] - September 10, 2021 - [[Discoverability vs Manipulability, GUI vs CLI]] - September 9, 2021 - [[Founder Diaries- Leaving the comfort zone]] - August 22, 2021 - [[Notion as a backend for your bookmarks]] - August 6, 2021 - [[TypeScript with implicit any is a great dynamic language]] - July 6, 2021 - [[Contextual recommendations matter]] - July 4, 2021 - [[Do you know what Github is]] - July 2, 2021 - [[Rent vs Buy]] - July 1, 2021 - [[Software Updates]] - June 28, 2021 - [[On Clojure]] - June 21, 2021 ## 2020 - [[How to Trade on the Taiwanese Stock Market]] - November 26, 2020 - [[Chinese is hard, and easier than you think]] - October 27, 2020 - [[Functional Pipelines in JavaScript Using async-await]] - September 18, 2020 - [[How I Ended Up In Taiwan]] - September 9, 2020 - [[Podcasts I Like]] - September 9, 2020 - [[Software I Like]] - September 7, 2020 - [[What is going on with Quora's UI]] - September 6, 2020 - [[Why I Don't Paginate]] - September 5, 2020 - [[Your Browsing History is not Your Own]] - September 2, 2020 - [[Work Culture]] - August 19, 2020 - [[Editor Overload]] - August 19, 2020 - [[The case for note taking]] - August 18, 2020 - [[Coming To Clojure from JavaScript]] - August 10, 2020 - [[How to Disable Live Reload in create-react-app]] - August 7, 2020 - [[Setting Up a Python Project]] - July 18, 2020 - [[The State of the Art]] - May 30, 2020 - [[Could Notion be More Than Just Another App]] - May 24, 2020 - [[The Risk of Mediocrity]] - May 22, 2020 - [[How I Learned to Code]] - May 14, 2020 - [[400 Hours Later - On reading The Wheel of Time]] - May 8, 2020 - [[Software Engineering is not Descriptive]] - May 3, 2020 - [[September Newsletter]] - May 3, 2020 - [[Software Optimism]] - April 30, 2020 - [[A better brain-computer interface]] - April 26, 2020 - [[Conflicting Priorities]] - April 22, 2020 - [[On Productivity]] - April 20, 2020 - [[Predictable Progress]] - April 20, 2020 - [[Discoverability and Productivity]] - April 17, 2020 - [[Commands vs Clicks]] - April 13, 2020 - [[Curation vs Fire Hose]] - April 13, 2020 - [[Searching vs Filtering]] - April 13, 2020 - [[A Lame Jailbreak and the Trouble with Monetization]] - April 9, 2020 - [[Solving Technical Education]] - April 8, 2020 ## 2019 - [[On turning 30]] - June 18, 2019 ## 2017 - [[Migrating my blog to Gatsby (Part 2 of Gatsby migration)]] - August 21, 2017 - [[Migrating to GatsbyJS Part 1]] - July 9, 2017 ## 2016 - [[The importance of Webpack context]] - November 24, 2016 - [[Migrating from Jekyll to Hexo]] - November 16, 2016 - [[A refreshing dose of minimalism]] - November 16, 2016 - [[Getting Started with Flow and Webpack]] - June 11, 2016 - [[Testing Webpack Plugins]] - May 11, 2016 - [[The Importance of Community]] - April 29, 2016 - [[Going fully HTTPS (SSL) fo' free]] - April 29, 2016 - [[Teaching a React.js Workshop]] - February 27, 2016 ## 2015 - [[Switching Away From Mongoose]] - August 1, 2015 - [[Use SSH ForwardAgent for fun and profit]] - July 20, 2015 - [[Managing state and controlled form fields with React]] - May 11, 2015 - [[In search of the ultimate tooling workflow]] - May 3, 2015 - [[Solving problems is the biggest win]] - February 20, 2015 - [[A New Direction]] - February 16, 2015 - [[Express Basics]] - February 2, 2015 - [[Use RedCarpet to Render Markdown]] - January 26, 2015 - [[Back to the JavaScript Basics]] - January 9, 2015 - [[New Site Is Live]] - January 8, 2015 ## 2014 - [[New Site in the Works]] - December 13, 2014 - [[A Site a Day]] - December 8, 2014 - [[Teaching My Brother To Code]] - December 7, 2014 - [[Running a Meteor App on Dokku]] - November 22, 2014 - [[Time Machine to the Rescue]] - October 3, 2014 - [[Business]] - October 1, 2014 - [[How I Nearly Gave Up Coffee]] - September 28, 2014 - [[Road to Absterdam Part 1]] - September 26, 2014 - [[Using Docker on a Mac with Boot2Docker]] - September 25, 2014 - [[Programmer, Maker or Both]] - September 24, 2014 - [[Dokku, Mongo & Node.js]] - August 22, 2014 - [[Useful Bash Commands For Web Developers]] - August 15, 2014 - [[Using Dokku As A Personal Heroku]] - July 24, 2014 - [[A Month In San Francisco]] - July 8, 2014 - [[Using Emoji in Excerpts on GitHub Pages]] - July 8, 2014 - [[Setting Up Hydra Config on A Mac]] - July 3, 2014 - [[Jekyll Management Like a Boss]] - June 28, 2014 - [[Meteor is (Almost) Awesome]] - June 28, 2014 - [[Jekyll Theming Like a Boss With Gulp]] - June 19, 2014 - [[Vim- It's Awesome]] - March 3, 2014 - [[From Startup Idea to (In)validation in a Week]] - January 27, 2014 - [[Using Key Remap 4 MacBook's Private.xml]] - January 7, 2014 - [[WordPress Needs Better Automation]] - January 2, 2014 ## 2013 - [[JavaScript Everywhere]] - December 5, 2013 - [[Integrating Alfred With Keyboard Maestro]] - November 14, 2013 - [[Getting Productive With Fish Shell]] - November 11, 2013 - [[Page reloads are a thing of the past]] - November 7, 2013 - [[Learn Vim & Code Like a Boss]] - August 9, 2013 - [[The WP_Post Object]] - June 15, 2013 - [[WordPress Development Server - Full Set Up Guide]] - May 30, 2013 - [[Portfolio Update + Future Site Update]] - May 14, 2013 - [[Becoming A Developer Is A Process]] - May 11, 2013 - [[Life Upgrades & Reasons To Write More]] - April 30, 2013 - [[Victory! The realization of a goal]] - February 22, 2013 - [[I'm famous on GoBodyLanguage.com!]] - February 20, 2013 - [[The Wonders of CSS Frameworks]] - February 7, 2013 - [[WordPress Theming From Scratch]] - January 11, 2013 ## 2012 - [[Custom Post Types- A Great Article]] - December 18, 2012