I am a dad and husband, web designer/developer by trade and photographer at heart.
On the mac I’ve been using the great PDF Expert for almost anything related to PDFs.
On Ubuntu I’ve been looking for simple ways to do pretty much anything in the terminal.
Latest example: combining PDFs. Which turns out to be a very straightforward process using PDF Toolkit:
pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output combined.pdfThe longest three streaks on my photo blog are now 366, 365, and 364 days.
Joan Westenberg makes a great case for why you should run your own blog:
We’re not going to get a better internet by waiting for platforms to become less extractive. We build it by building it. By maintaining our own spaces, linking to each other, creating the interconnected web of independent sites that the blogosphere once was and could be again.
(via Pedro)
A simple bash script to open Obsidian notes directly from the terminal, including fuzzy search and automatic daily note creation.
A Celebration Is In Order.
I finally got a proper text expander running on Ubuntu using Espanso, including importing my Alfred snippets from macOS.
I am getting quite comfortable with Ubuntu these days. One thing I can’t seem to shake, though, is keyboard shortcuts to select text.
«Aile» is the Turkish word for family and the working title of an ongoing documentary project I started in 2019.
