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A blog about Dave Gatchell.

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    Trying to get myself to write a blog post with my phone. Something about it doesn't feel like I am writing.

    Writing on the phone to me feels more like I am texting myself even though typing is typing.

  • Gene Krupa Big Band, Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge
    Jazz
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    Capturing a screen recording video with command-shift-5 is awesome except for one thing. Stopping the video once you start recording isn't that intuitive. The controls are really hard to find.

    When you want to stop recording, hit command-shift-5 again and the menu will appear again with the stop button.

  • Slava Tsukerman
    Electronic
  • John Coltrane
    Jazz
  • Desmond Dekker & The Aces
    Reggae / Dub
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    As much as I want to have all the CSS properties memorized, that isn't a nice thing to do to my brain. Instead I visualize my CSS snippets as a garden that I weed and prune.

    My CSS snippets garden used to be a folder of text files which was fine. The key to that way was naming the files so they were easy to scan. Lately I moved to an app called Snippety that's a little more fun to garden in. It's quicker to search, prune, and the name is perfect. It also supports a way to export snippets to a file which is something you should always check before you fill up an app with your notes, thoughts, and ideas.

  • Herman Chin Loy
    Reggae / Dub
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    I had a some credit for the Apple Store so I got an app called Waterllama to remind me to hydrate. Wasn't sure if I was really going to use it but after a week of using it I am glad I got it. Before I was sure I was drinking enough water all day. Getting pinged from the app at regular intervals made me realize I before I was probably drinking a bunch of water mostly in the morning and evening.

    You get to set up what you normally drink and then it has a hydration percentage that gets added and subtracted from your daily score. Water is 100% hydration, coffee is 60%, and alcohol is -50%.

    Nice to get "am I drinking enough water" out of my head and into an automated system. 

  • Brook Benton
    Soul / Funk / R&B
  • Boris, Michio Kurihara
    Punk / Post-Punk