Optimize for happiness

Life is easier with simple scripting. Grateful for everyone's encouragement and support!

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Welcome! Thank you for stopping by. This is my playground of random little things that I found that helps me learn what overlooked simple problems computers can solve. The answers could be somewhere out there, in pieces or multiple versions. My goal here is to organize my thoughts of what I found helpful. It is all a constant learning experience, shared here. With love.

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Current interests

I am working on curating a list of news RSS sources that are set up as public Nostr identities and may be followed by anyone. I think it is important to choose what journalism sources we may want to keep up with, conveniently in our Nostr feed.

Book I am reading

William Zinsser On writing well


Books that changed me: the latest one

James Hamblin Clean
The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Showering, and Life Continued" explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics.

Latest posts

Add a comment section

2023.06.29   •   last modified 2023.06.29   •   2 min read

It took me a while to understand how to add a comment section underneath a post without the standard Disqus.

Link to the very top of page on a GitHub page

2023.06.27   •   last modified 2023.06.28   •   2 min read

There is no default way to point (anchor) to the very top of a blog post or a page in Markdown. But we can combine two ideas to accomplish this.

No need for the Emoji plugin?

2023.06.24   •   last modified 2023.06.24   •   1 min read

There are multiple repositories available, and websites that are set up to help us code the emoji symbols into GitHub pages. But are they needed?

Clean out the old apps completely - take 2

2023.06.22   •   5 min read

Updated script that can do it all.

Clean out the old apps completely - take 1

2023.06.21   •   last modified 2023.06.29   •   2 min read

How to clean out your system completely of a given app, especially the iOS apps on Macs. No software to install to do this, and you are in complete control of the process. So no surprises.

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