I just got my first Synology. My Drobo crashed, and it was the second one in 5 years. Keeping a 20 TB backup in the cloud isn’t really feasible for me, so a local RAID is supposed to be the backup for less-essential data. So losing another Drobo meant potentially losing a bunch of data I’d rather keep around.
git, server, service, ssh, synology
I wrote this up for MacStories this morning, so I won’t go into full detail, but AeroPress Timer has updated to version 3. It’s an app for timing out recipes for the Aerobie AeroPress , and this version adds the one feature I’ve most wanted from this awesome little iPhone utility: custom recipes.
ios, recipe, review
I’m not being hyperbolic: this “one simple trick” is going to save a lot of people a lot of time. (I know, it’s really hard to read that sentence as anything other than hyperbole, but give me a chance.)
productivity, snippet, textexpander
The latest book from Luc P. Beaudoin is out: Cognitive Productivity with macOS: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge, available on Leanpub, the iBookstore and Amazon.
book, books, macos, organization, productivity, review, tips
I know a few people are using PodTagger , so I thought I should publish the latest updates. It’s mostly fixes, but it also now adds a “metadata” section at the top of the file that it writes out that looks like:
podcast, podtagger
