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sponsor, textexpander
I’ve been a bit light on the blogging this week. My energy level is pretty good, but most of my time has gone into podcast editing and guesting on other podcasts. I guess I’m a podcaster? That doesn’t sound quite right, but I’ll keep trying to figure it out.
overtired, podcast, podcasting, systematic
I had the pleasure of interviewing Patrice Brend’amour on Systematic #239 this week. Last time Patrice was on Systematic (2014), she was living as a man, and has since transitioned to being a proud, transgender woman. I’ve always supported trans people, but have been hesitant to ask a lot of questions I assume are stupid of trans the people in my life. Patrice gave me a chance to ask them with openness and understanding, and I learned a lot.
overtired, podcast, systematic
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about being bipolar. I wrote that piece while I was in a manic phase, and I told myself I’d write another one while I was in a depression, just to contrast. If I’m going to share about a binary disorder, it seems important to document it from both sides. The thing is, I went through the depression and was unable to write for the whole week. I queued up a full week of posts while I was manic and just scheduled them to publish over the week I knew I was…
adhd, bipolar, mentalhealth, personal, writing
I had a frank discussion about my bipolar disorder with Christina on Overtired this week. We eventually moved on to an in-depth discussion of the benefits of VS Code, which might seem like a strange transition, but you’ll be amazed how effortless we make it seem. Before it was all over, we also got into cable management for nerds and somehow managed to ignore Taylor Swift completely for a week. I’m not complaining, this was more up my alley. I’m also really proud of the Sleep…
overtired, podcast, systematic
If you have a Stream Deck, you probably have some buttons that launch apps. Using Bunch adds a ton of options beyond just launching a single app: you can have a button that toggles entire groups of apps, running commands and scripts, changing your wallpaper, hiding your Dock… you know, all the things Bunch can do.
automation, bunch, keyboard, keyboardmaestro, plugin, streamdeck
Continuing on with Shark Bunch Week… I’ve been talking about Bunch again lately because I’ve been setting up a new one for podcasting (which happened to lead to new features). It’s been a while since I created a Bunch from scratch, and I thought I’d document it for anyone curious about Bunch but intimidated by the syntax and/or number of options. Or just people looking for ideas for getting more out of it. I’ve got the Podcast Bunch set up and working…
automation, bunch, dropbox, nvultra, podcasting, productivity, scripting
One of the feature requests I get now and then for Bunch is to allow it to arrange windows. Some other batch launchers have this feature, but they usually have a GUI, and making that kind of thing work with plain text files is an ugly proposition. There is a good option, though.
bunch, productivity, scripting
