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Aadam Jacobs, sometimes called Chicago Tape Guy, is a concertgoer and archivist in Chicago, Illinois, known for recording more than 10,000 tapes of indie and punk rock concerts between 1984 and the 2010s. Described as a "ubiquitous local club presence" and "rabid fan" by the Chicago Tribune,[1] Jacobs captured an estimated 30,000 music sets from at least 3000 music acts[2] including R.E.M., The Cure, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth, and Nirvana.[3] Since late 2024, dozens of volunteers have digitized, cataloged, and published thousands of his audio files.

That effort is here: https://aadamjacobs.dunlap.ai.

Wow! I spent the morning getting work done while listening to an R.E.M. concert from 1986. Amazing.

Cya!

I didn't think this would happen this year, but I'm glad.

https://github.com/tw93/Mole/blob/main/README.md

Interesting, and maybe easier than tools like Cocktail.

Typography in ten Minutes and Summary of Key Rules:

1. The four most im­por­tant ty­po­graphic con­sid­er­a­tions for body text are point size, line spac­ing, line length, and font (see font rec­om­men­da­tions), be­cause those choices de­ter­mine how the body text looks.
2. point size should be 10–12 points in printed doc­u­ments, 15-25 pix­els on the web.
3. line spac­ing should be 120–145% of the point size.
4. The av­er­age line length should be 45–90 char­ac­ters (in­clud­ing spaces).
5. The eas­i­est and most vis­i­ble im­prove­ment you can make to your ty­pog­ra­phy is to use a pro­fes­sional font, like those found in font rec­om­men­da­tions.
6. Avoid goofy fonts, mono­spaced fonts, most free fonts, and sys­tem fonts—es­pe­cially times new ro­man and ar­ial.
7. Use curly quo­ta­tion marks, not straight ones (see straight and curly quotes).
8. Use bold or italic as lit­tle as pos­si­ble, and not together.
9. Never un­der­line, ex­cept per­haps for web links.
10. all caps are fine for less than one line of text.
11. Use cen­tered text sparingly.
12. Put only one space be­tween sen­tences.
13. Don’t use mul­ti­ple word spaces or other white-space char­ac­ters in a row.
14. If you don’t have real small caps, don’t use them at all.
15. Use 5–12% ex­tra let­terspac­ing with all caps and small caps.
16. kern­ing should al­ways be turned on.
17. Use first-line in­dents that are one to four times the point size of the text, or use 4–10 points of space be­tween para­graphs. Don’t use both.
18. Al­ways use hy­phen­ation with jus­ti­fied text.
19. Don’t con­fuse hy­phens and dashes, and don’t use mul­ti­ple hy­phens as a dash.
20. Use am­per­sands spar­ingly, un­less in­cluded in a proper name.
21. Use proper trade­mark and copy­right sym­bols—not al­pha­betic approximations.
22. In a doc­u­ment longer than three pages, one ex­cla­ma­tion point is plenty (see ques­tion marks and ex­cla­ma­tion points).
23. Put a non­break­ing space af­ter para­graph and sec­tion marks.
24. Make el­lipses us­ing the proper char­ac­ter, not pe­ri­ods and spaces.
25. apos­tro­phes point downward.
26. Make sure foot and inch marks are straight, not curly.

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Putting it back to true lets you hold down the "e" key (for example) to show all the accents and special characters for the "e" key.

I love when "remind me of this message at 7pm" works… but when it doesn't, there's seemingly no way to make it work. I can't add a link to that message thread in Reminders.

And that's just Siri.

On my HomePods I can say "Play my Alison playlist on Shuffle." It works every time. On my iPhone it plays Allison Crowe every time. That's not what that playlist is (it's Taylor Alison Swift songs. 😃)

Maddening.

The Beauty of Finished Software:

When we buy a physical product, we accept that it won’t change in its lifetime. We’ll use it until it wears off, and we replace it. We can rely on that product not evolving; the gas pedal in my car will always be in the same place.

However, when it comes to software, we usually have the ingrained expectations of perpetual updates. We believe that if software doesn’t evolve it’ll be boring, old and unusable. If we see an app with no updates in the last year, we think the creator might be dead.

I am liking iCloud Private Relay. One feature, though, that I wish it had… let me specify an IP address or a website domain name for which I don't want it to be active. A "whitelist" of sorts.

I administrate a few sites, and it's a hassle to turn the feature off and turn it on. I appreciate the "Reload and Show IP Address" option, but that doesn't work for new tabs from the same session and it's something you have to do every time.

defaults write com.analyzrgolf.Analyzr zoomMagnificationDelta -float 0.01

Account creation
Mar 19, 2007, 10:47:40 AM
#1512551

@iacas

Disable throttling of low-priority background I/O, then re-enable it.


sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0
sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=1

Pro MacBook Pro Tip: have a Touch Bar with Touch ID? If you edit /etc/pam.d/sudo and add the following line to the top…

auth sufficient pam_tid.so

…you can now use your fingerprint to sudo!

— Cabel (@cabel) November 16, 2017

Code on GitHub

To get the old tab bar on Safari for macOS 12, create
/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/Safari.plisthttps://t.co/1fBPy5UXnm
and reboot. pic.twitter.com/7giZ6y8XpD

— Zhuowei Zhang (@zhuowei) June 15, 2021

Is it possible to AppleScript or use a shell script or programmatically turn on (and off) Do Not Disturb mode in Big Sur (macOS 11.x)?

This GitHub project worked in 10.14 and 10.15 but requires more than we're willing to do to work around it in Big Sur.

Any ideas?

P.S. Will look at this but I don't think it's any better. Just no time to look at the code right now.

Natalie and I laughed like nutjobs one Christmas at the bad surgery video game videos.