2025-11-14 20:39:30
"She Thinks I Still Care" by George Jones
What song do you turn to when you need to cry? Country music, real country music, not that Nashville shit they make today, was so full of emotions, most of them sad and remorseful.Songs about broken hearts can break your heart and no one does it better than George Jones.
2025-11-13 02:22:02
"We Shall Overcome" by Mahalia Jackson
What's a song that feels larger than life to you? If you ever get a chance to stand with a group of veterans of the Civil Rights movement and sing this song, take advantage of that time machine my friend. It will put you in touch with an America that's a lot closer and lot more real than ye old bombs bursting in air.
2025-11-13 01:42:23
On my workstation, where I get most of my work done, I have a dual
monitor setup dialed in over a period of time to match my preferences
for the apps and processes that I use daily. I am partial to a
keyboard-centric workflow. I have used keyboard-driven launchers for
many years, including LaunchBar
and currently Raycast.
However, I deal with a great many files, primarily photographs, videos,
music, and eBooks, moving them from different locations in my file
system to other locations. This requires me to use a mouse and to do
quite a bit of application switching. When I am away from home, whether
at a coffee shop or on an extended trip, I prefer to remote into my
primary workstation to get things done rather than use the native
interface on the MacBook Air I carry with me. This can be problematic
because, rather than having two 27-inch monitors, I'm limited to one
15-inch Retina display. I've tried a variety of remote access
applications, but right now, what works best for me is native screen
sharing through a Tailscale network.
I am constantly switching not only between applications but also between monitors. For various reasons, using the native Mac dock is not always practical because of screen space and window placement. Likewise, using a keyboard-driven launcher is also difficult, and the same goes for application switchers. Depending on the last thing you clicked on, you may activate an app on the remote machine, or you may activate something on your local machine. It can be a coin toss.
I've started using ExtraDock from Appitstudio as a way to simplify application access and switching when working remotely. I had been switching and launching apps with Start from Innovative Bytes, a menu bar app, but it takes too many fine motor skills to access the menu bar on a shrunk-down remote display for my liking. ExtraDock lets me create a variety of dock-like launchers for different workflows and activate one or more of them when needed.
Using ExtraDock in conjunction with Stay from Cordless Dog, an app that lets me configure apps to launch to assigned positions on different monitors, has been a real game changer. Getting to the apps I need when I need them while working remotely is no longer aggravating.
A lifetime license for ExtraDock is available for €31.99, or if you prefer, a one year subscription €9.99 . Both options have a 14-day money back guarantee.
2025-11-12 10:32:42
"Blinded By the Light" by Bruce Springsteen
What's a song that feels larger than life to you? Blinded By The Light by Bruce Springsteen because it's written in perfect iambic pentameter by a guy who barely graduated from high school who went on to be the perfect poet for an American generation. If you ever get a chance to hear The Boss tell the story of writing this song, listen closely while he laughs at himself for sitting at his kitchen table in Asbury Park with a rhyming dictionary. And see how he feels about Manfred Mann and the Earth Band's pronunciation of "deuce".
2025-11-11 01:04:18
My personal media collection dates back to the days of ripping
Netflix DVDs, back when the Internet used to come in the mail.
Consisting of thousands of titles and weighing in at 20 TB, it presents
some management challenges. Keeping things organized and standardized is
important to me, and while I value automation, I also want full control
over my files. To that end, I use tinyMediaManager (aka TMM),
a cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Linux) app written in Java. Since it
is optimized for Apple Silicon, I use it on my M2 MBA rather than my
vintage Intel MBP. The actual files are located on my self-hosted server
and on a USB drive I use for archival purposes. Not having to keep the
files on a local drive is a big plus.
It scans directories of movies and TV shows to scrape metadata from multiple sources (IMDB, TVDB, Trakt, etc.) to include:
If you manage your media through the "arr" stack, you can still benefit from using TMM to download subtitles and obtain trailers. I use a combination of Plex with Infuse as a front end and Jellyfin and have never had an issue with my files attributable to TMM.
2025-11-10 03:55:43
"The Road Goes On Forever" by Robert Earl Keen
Describe the perfect song for a road trip and why it works. - I just love the whole crew of 70s and 80s Texas singer/songwriters: Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Guy Clarke, Townes van Zandt. "The Road Goes on Forever" tells a great story.
